Engineering Manager

Your day-to-day (as an Engineer Manager, you’ll):

• Work with multiple cross-functional Agile teams of engineers, product managers and designers to deliver key outcomes for our business

• Developing our talent with coaching, professional development, goal setting and performance management

• Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration

• Accountable for management of the overall team providing both leadership and technical guidance, set targets and objectives for the team and deliver results 

• Provide hands-on technical guidance & coaching to engineers in the team

• Guide team in maintaining high standards of code quality and testing practices

• Take responsibility of sprint and release commitments, impediments resolution, escalation

• Hold weekly 1:1 meetings to build excellent relationships with your team and peers

• Help make build vs. buy vs. maintain decisions considering business and technology needs

• Ensuring adherence to good processes, alignment with goals, and cohesion with team members

• Ensure continuous improvement over time through process, tooling, and analysis of our systems holistically

• Participate in development and evolution of engineering standards and guidelines

Qualifications

What does it take to do this job?

• 5+ years experience building / leading teams responsible for development, maintenance, and operation of large scale, distributed, web applications and data pipelines

• 2+ years direct management experience

• Proven ability to attract, retain & develop key and diverse talent

• 8+ years of experience building well-tested, scalable, distributed, high-volume, low-latency systems

• Expert understanding of current data best practices, design patterns, and warehouse solutions (e.g.

Snowflake, Postgres, Redshift)

• Demonstrate very strong technical leadership and people management skills including solid communication and analytical skills with through understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution

• Expert knowledge in at least one programming language (Ruby, Golang, Python preferred)

• Strong understanding of complex enterprise technology with the ability to introduce improved experiences and simpler processes

• Extensive experience testing, debugging, and monitoring production applications

• Ad Tech experience developing applications that connect to Ad Servers, DSPs and SSPs (e.g.

Google Ad Manager, AdX, Beeswax)

• Expertise working in a cloud-based environment (e.g.

AWS) is preferred

• Ability to lead and participate in the design and architecture of new systems

• Familiarity with data governance practices and GDPR

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science & equivalent experience

This position may be performed remotely anywhere within the United States except the state of Colorado.