Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Directly manage a team of Software Engineers, onshore and offshore, organizing resources against product areas and providing individual direction and performance management.

Provide technical guidance and direction to the team.

Research and ensure the appropriate use of AI development tools across your team.

Apply agile development practices, working closely with Product Management, QA, and DevOps to rapidly deliver high value features.

Lead the effort in sizing feature development as part of the sprint planning process.

Establish coding and unit test standards applied by the team.

Address and resolve escalated production issues in a timely manner, conducting postmortems and root cause analysis and implementing mitigation strategies based on what was learned. Qualities

Forward-thinking - You actively explore new technologies and tools, including and especially AI development and test tools.

Pragmatic and Organized-You apply resources and organize work to optimally deliver value to the business. You make informed "do it now" vs. "do it later" decisions.

Thoughtful Urgency-You seek out and eliminate impediments to team throughput while maintaining a sustainable cadence.

Technical Expertise-You leverage deep technical experience and knowledge to make decisions and provide direction.

Quality Minded-You feel responsible for the quality of the product your team produces and put in place appropriate development and test practices to manage risk.

Strong Communicator-You explain highly technical concepts to engineers and non-engineers, on your team and across other teams and functions.

Mentor and Coach-You invest in the development of your team members, providing them feedback and guidance to help them achieve their professional goals while meeting the needs of the business. Requirements

5 years of professional experience managing a software development team.

At least 8 years of professional web development experience using a modern tech stack. Sufficient experience in java, react, postgres, and .net technologies to act as a subject matter expert.

Experience using modern AI-assist IDEs and vibe coding tools.

Experience deploying and operating SaaS products in AWS leveraging container orchestration technologies like EKS.

Experience delivering a commercial sotware product using agile/scrum practices.

Experience managing on-call participation in and administration of an incident managment system (e.g. pagerduty, datadog). Benefits

Flexible PTO with no accrual needed allowing employees the time they need away from work

Multiple healthcare options to choose from including PPO and CDHP options with matching company contributions to an employee's HSA account

Paid parental leave

401K matching

On-site gym, company paid lunches, fully stocked snack bins and refrigerators in the office (anyone want a Monster to drink?)

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