We are looking for a Engineering Manager for one of our Backend Engineering teams. We have a strong engineering culture focused on giving engineers ownership and autonomy over their tasks. The individual will be our an engineering tech lead and will work with a Product Manager on building out the product roadmap for the team. Our distributed backend systems handle petabyte-scale high volume data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week supporting our products. Our clients include many of the top apps in the app-store including ESPN, The Weather Channel, Grindr, and Soundhound.
About You
Our ideal candidate has:
Multiple years of technical and managerial experience in developing distributed systems
Extensive experience working with a JVM language
Deep familiarity with distributed computing frameworks and large scale data systems
Managed or lead a team through several product cycles
Conducted architecture and design reviews
You Should
Manage, mentor and provide career growth guidance for a team of backend engineers.
Be a player coach with expertise in backend engineering to provide guidance during code, design, and architecture reviews
Be comfortable finding the balance taking ownership of the team’s deliverables while giving the engineers the space to take ownership of their work
Be passionate about technology and stay on top of new developments.
Jump in and help the team deliver features when it is required
Balance technical debt vs. feature development vs. supporting customers
Direct hands on leader with distributed systems experience
About Us
We ...
Are tackling some of the hardest problems in the mobile and distributed systems space
Understand that taking proper time to design, code and test ultimately results in higher velocity.
Invest in personal and professional development of our engineers
Take our work seriously, but don't take ourselves seriously.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
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