Sr. Manager - Software Engineering - Slack

Job Category

Software Engineering

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Slack is looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead one of our engineering teams in Slack, specifically in the Huddles area. Slack Huddles is a feature that allows users to have live audio or video conversations directly within the Slack workspace or Enterprise organization. It can be used in any channel or direct message to work in real time alongside coworkers with various features like video, multi-person screen sharing, and a dedicated thread for notes.

Please note: this position does require hybrid in-office expectations

• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
• Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
• Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
• Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for engineering teams
• Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
• Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources
• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
• Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
• Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond
• Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
• Participating in architecture discussions and planning
• Participating in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
• Occasionally chipping in to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical skill sharp

Required Skills:

• A related technical degree required
• 3 + years of proven track record leading software engineering teams with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
• Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
• Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that’s been released for public consumption
• Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers
• Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with Agile development methodologies. Scrum Master experience required