Software Engineering Manager, Alloy Automation
eCommerce automation platform
Open for applications
eCommerce automation platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make automation accessible to all business owners, since eliminating repetitive work is the key to freeing more people to be creatives, innovators, & exceptional employees.
Role
Who you are
- Over 10 years of relevant software engineering experience, and building web applications at scale with Node, React, Typescript, JavaScript, AWS, MongoDB, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
- Proven track record as a technical and people leader, with experience growing and building engineering teams
- Strong opinions and willingness to voice them
- Proven understanding of cloud infrastructure in a production environment
- Have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions; proficient in debugging and troubleshooting techniques to diagnose and resolve issues in production systems
- Strong interpersonal skills and clear communication abilities. You should be comfortable and willing to give feedback to your teammates to help them level up
- Proficient in back-end development concepts, including server-side architecture, design and architectural pattern and best practices in software development, APIs, databases, and authentication/authorization mechanisms
- Experience running production systems including deploying, monitoring, and debugging; optimizing code, enhancing performance, and improving system scalability and reliability
- Understand the importance of security in software development and knowledgeable about common security vulnerabilities and best practices to mitigate them
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a talented engineering manager to join our “Alloy Core” squad – that is, the group of folks at Alloy responsible for building core product features like our Integration Builder, Installation Manager, etc
- As a manager, you’ll have significant input and sway on the direction of our product
- You’ll inherit an existing engineering team and work to grow out your team as we scale
- Your time will be spent leveling up your team, providing strategic guidance for both your team and the broader engineering org on technologies to use, acting as a key partner on engineering leadership, performing code reviews, and constantly raising the bar higher across the org
- Help build the best possible product that is performant, reliable, scalable and beautiful, working on diverse projects and collaborating with engineering teams across four countries (and growing)
- Leading a team of frontend, backend, and full stack engineers. Your team will look to you for direction and guidance. You’ll be responsible for ensuring your team hits OKRs and for providing high level direction on technologies, frameworks, etc
- Solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to our customers and app users which span across other engineers and product managers
- Collaborate closely with our product, QA, and revenue organizations to roll out features efficiently and in a timely manner across the entire release cycle
- Learning new things and challenging yourself to architect and implement features for our iPaaS and automation products, workflow orchestration and analytics engine
- Build, debug and manage queues, schedule jobs, map data across different APIs, handle errors, and help solve large scale infrastructure and engineering challenges for some of our most strategic accounts at scale
- Create infrastructure and internal tooling to handle extremely high transaction volume (millions of executions per minute)
- Teach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help you grow
- Participate in regular code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge across all of Alloy
- Foster a deep rooted documentation culture across your team
- Provide mentoring and feedback to your team on a regular basis
Our take
Automation is great at two things in particular: eliminating repetitive drudge work, and ensuring nothing is missed. Both cover a lot of ground in the field of eCommerce, where monitoring and responding to customer behaviour is the name of the game. Alloy Automation is a platform helping automate precisely this.
The Alloy platform allows companies to link together apps to create automated workflows. A Shopify payment, for example, could trigger the sending of a customer text message, a discount code, and a team slack notification. These templates can be custom-built, or selected from a marketplace of prefabricated ones.
The automation and eCommerce marketplaces are both hotly competitive and cluttered, which means Alloy’s model is a smart one. It doesn’t need to beat the field; it just needs to integrate with the rapidly growing number of SaaS platforms and tools eCommerce companies are leaning on. Alloy has been rewarded with strong funding to rapidly upscale this concept - and there’s a lot of market demand to grow into.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Feb 2021
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $30m
Company benefits
- Health coverage - We provide you with a health reimbursement account (HRA) with a built-in, yearly stipend to cover insurance, prescriptions, and copays
- Virtual social activities - We do virtual Airbnb experience, founder-hosted cooking classes, poker games, & more to feel like a team despite being far apart
- Flexible PTO - We want to make sure our teammates keep themselves mentally and physically healthy, and celebrate the important holidays in their lives
Company values
- We Are Owners - Our north star will always be the impact we will have on our customers and partners
- Hone Your Craft - What we do doubles as a medium to exercise out passions and hone our professional crafts
- Work In The Open - We default to working asynchronously. We aim to share openly, and stay honest about our misses and learnings
- Teams Win Championships - We win and lose together. We offer help before it's asked and we help each other get better
- Mind Wide-Open - We have strong opinions, loosely held and invite ourselves to be challenged with different perspectives and by data
- Ship It - We work with urgency because speed makes us different and we value iterating on projects over being perfect the first time
- A Little Fun Never Hurt Nobody - We throw a party once in a while to celebrate each other and the work we do
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Sara Du
(CEO)Originally studied at Harvard, before dropping out to spend time as a Wish Product Designer, a Snap Software Engineer, and a Fellow at 8VC.
Gregg Mojica
(President & CTO)Worked on software at Cornell, then as a Technical Writer at AppCoda, and an Application Architect with Fiserv. Also worked as an Angel Investor / Scout with Bain Capital Ventures.
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