Manager, Software Engineering - Fullstack, LIVE Team,

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe, and high-performance work environment.
• Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.
• Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc.
• Champion processes and the engineering maturity expected of an established tech-focused organization.
• Lead design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, helping set direction and context, and identifying any gaps or blockers.
• Contribute to discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.

What to Bring

• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 13 - 15years experience in software engineering with 3+ years direct experience building and managing fullstack engineering teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and experience in effectively communicating with a wide range of technical and non-technical roles within a large organization.
• Experience with hiring, onboarding, and new team members.
• Experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications that adhere to coding best practices.
• Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way.
• 5+ years of Cloud (AWS preferred) experience.

About you:

• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts, and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team, and you are still comfortable with technical details.
• You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs adapting existing systems.
• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, in collaboration with other teams as necessary.
• You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist and have a track-record of applying these on teams you have led.
• You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, aiming for continuous improvement, adapting best engineering practices, and leading by example.