Manager of Software Engineering, Snap
Growth Notifications
$229-343k
Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
Social media & camera company
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Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$229-343k
Eligible for equity in the form of RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Background with building high availability and mission critical systems
- Experience with leading an engineering team
- Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
- Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders at all levels of a company
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
- 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4+ years of post-grad software development experience
- 1+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- Demonstrated track record of building and operating reliable, scalable services in AWS with a strong focus on observability, cost efficiency, and incident response
Desirable
- Experience working on high-availability or real-time systems (e.g., messaging, payments, search)
- Familiarity with service oriented architecture and service orchestration
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical, highly-available, high QPS global systems
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join Snap!
- Growth Notifications aims to drive critical business metrics (e.g. DAU/MAU, story views) through relevant, timely, and personalized but unsolicited communications (‘nudges’) through suitable available channels (e.g. app push, email, sms) in a cost-effective manner while maintaining data accuracy and platform integrity
- We drive user growth and engagement by helping the user discover timely, relevant, and personalized content that entices the user to repeatedly come back to the platform and engage in retentive activities
- We use interruptive communication channels such as app push notifications, smses, and emails, which demand immediate user attention, and as such, are highly effective in driving user action
- Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver the critical infrastructure behind core Messaging product in Snapchat
- Manage and mentor a team of developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
- Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
- Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
- Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members by creating growth opportunities, giving regular feedback, and managing performance
- Lead a team of 10+, backend engineers with expertise building platforms to unlock greater developer efficiency and growth impact
- Balance near, medium and long-term objectives to achieve business goals today while laying the foundations for a long term roadmap
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega Backdoor option!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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