Software Engineering Manager, Sovrn
$200-220k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Boulder, CO
Advertising tools & services for content creators
Be an early applicant
Advertising tools & services for content creators
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-220k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Boulder, CO
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower independent content creators and publishers to grow their businesses and achieve the attention they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Experience with developing or delivering web services, applications, and API’s
- Strong communication and leadership abilities, with a track record of mentoring and developing engineering talent
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Experience working closely with Product Management and Creative teams to design new features and empower the engineering teams to develop them
- Proven ability to manage and resolve complex technical issues
- Experience with Scrum and Agile development processes
- Excel in a fast paced startup-like development environment
- Passion and drive to help the team improve and deliver great products
- Active listening and respect for others opinions and ideas
- You are technical enough to understand the products and what the team is doing
- Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring others
Desirable
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or another cloud platform
- Experience working with remote engineering teams geographically distributed across the world
- Software development experience working with dynamic languages such as Javascript (Node.js), Python or Ruby and web frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular
- Experience building and operating SaaS web applications
What the job involves
- At Sovrn, we are hiring for a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Sovrn Platform team, which is responsible for the engineering and operational management for our publisher-facing web portal
- We enable publishers to leverage a wide variety of products, operating in open market conditions at startup scale and speed, with a focus on time to market and value add
- In this role, you’ll spend less time writing code, but remain engaged in technical deliverables
- You’ll be focused on clarifying deliverables, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, and supporting a diverse, talented, and motivated team of engineers while balancing personnel challenges with business requirements
- Engineering management and mentorship of 1 full-stack, agile engineering team
- Responsible for hiring, on-boarding and mentoring a diverse team of engineers
- Understand and communicate the business domain, and how it affects requirement and implementation details
- Develop, execute and influence the product roadmap, ensuring high quality web applications and APIs
- Track and manage key engineering metrics such as development cycle time, team velocity, software quality, and team morale
- Work closely with Product Management and Creative teams to design new features and empower the engineering teams to develop them
- Empower engineering teams and leaders to drive standards, ensure code quality, and foster a culture of collaboration while driving engineering design, delivery, and excellence
- Work with cross-functional teams and across other business verticals to translate functional requirements into technical design and implementations
- Work with other engineering leaders to continuously improve the overall development processes
- Manage the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and prioritization to testing and release
- Break down a full project plan into incremental deliveries, and track the team’s work against those steps
- Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement within the engineering team
Our take
The monetization of online content creation can be very lucrative but requires time, resources and expertise outside of writing. Passionate writers who focus on storytelling and creating inspiring content may waste valuable time attempting to develop their business, and hiring somebody to do this is often too expensive for independent writers.
Sovrn tackles this in a smart way by providing writers with simple-to-use tools that take the stress out of monetization. It works with publishers and advertisers to provide opportunities to passionate writers, allowing them to focus on excelling at their job rather than dealing with distribution, monetization and operations - all of which Sovrn is able to handle.
The startup claims to be able to drive higher revenues and scale a publishing business, at the same time as allowing writers to focus on what they do best. It has seen significant investment that will enable it to pursue acquisitions and support the further expansion of its platform with more capabilities to be added in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$35.6m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$36m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.6m
Company benefits
- Work at a company that values your strengths. See the results of your actions. There are no barriers at Sovrn
- First-class health benefits, wellness options, and a host of life-improvement perks that help you be the best you
- Retirement benefits, 401k matching, and stock options show we’re equally dedicated to financial health
- In-house barista, catered lunches and breakfasts
- Volunteer opportunities
- Flexible vacation and a focus on mental and physical health mean you’ll have time for life outside the office
- Learn new skills. Pursue great ideas. Take on new opportunities and thrive in a workplace that rewards your efforts
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Leadership
Walter Knapp
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Colorado, they worked as a Partner at Cambridge Technology, and Novell Ventures for a combined 6 years. They worked as SuSE Linux at Novel, COO of Lijit Networks, and COO of Federated Media Publishing before leaving in January 2014 to found Sovrn.
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