Mid level/Senior Engineering Manager, SpotHero

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/related technical field
• 5+ years as an engineer building and shipping software using Python, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, or React on multiple projects on complex distributed polyglot systems
• Proven ability to understand and vocalize opinions about architecture
• Familiar with Object Oriented Design, Domain Driven Design, Event Driven services
• 3+ years of management experience leading a squad of four or more engineers working on a distributed system in Golang, Java, Kotlin, or Python (or some combination of them)
• 2+ years managing and maintaining infrastructure and platforms, including monitoring costs, version control, and feature enrichment
• Demonstrable experience mentoring and coaching reports to their desired career goals
• Demonstrable experience with small squads that move fast - all members are expected to be able to achieve maximum results with minimal direction
• Log Management & Security Analysis Software (SumoLogic preferred), G Suite, BI Tool (Looker preferred), Issue and Project Tracking Software (Jira preferred), Team Collaboration Software (Confluence preferred)
• 1+ years of experience working in product management working with numerous external analytics tools with use across different departments, with various intersections of internally generated data
• You’ve previously launched and iterated a product or service while in high-growth or scaling environments
• Ability to analyze, assess, and derive insights from data, that then become hypotheses you test in a split or multivariate test
• You are incredibly stakeholder-focused with a track record of driving results based on their needs and challenges

Desirable

• As an Engineering Manager you will lead and inspire an engineering squad (team) composed of both Data Engineering and Analytical Engineers, expected to build products that support our scaling and performance challenges. You will help the squad build products, not just code.
• Own all technology solutions and ensure high-quality code is produced through ensuring adherence to software engineering best practices. Ensure squad scales efficiently and effectively executes against the product roadmap. Provide technical and professional growth for each direct report
• Ability to be conversant in the squad’s code bases and is able to help out in a pinch (fix bugs, help out during an outage, and be in the on-call rotation). Drive innovation at process and project levels, defining new processes and consistently improving existing processes
• Data Engineering at SpotHero is primarily responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and platforms that facilitate the extraction, transformation and loading of data into various data-stores, relational and non-relational alike. Furthermore, the squad bridges the gaps between our applications and insights squads by building pipelines that move data around stack and enrich it as required for deriving insights. (edited)
• Own the people, process, and technology of one or two squads
• Builds and maintains Psychological Safety within the squad and beyond
• Responsible for building and growing a top-performing squad, including the hiring/firing, training, and performance management of the members on the squad
• Mentor and grow the capabilities of the squad(s)
• Drive results by establishing motivational goals and providing constructive feedback to squad members
• Assist squad in navigating relationships with Stakeholders e.g. Product, Design, Supply, etc
• Develop training plans for continuous development of the squad’s engineering skills and product knowledge
• Ensuring squad members grow in technical areas that are of interest to them and/or are less experienced in
• Actively think about how to evolve the squad capabilities beyond the individuals
• Put in place development best practices to ensure the squad produces high-quality, well-written, and tested code
• Measure metrics like velocity and determine ways to shorten the SDLC by uncovering the squads’ blockers and helping to remove them
• Lead reviews of architecture design
• Know and document the strengths and weaknesses of Products and technical stack
• Create a healthy balance between features and reduction of technical debt
• Understand, own, and maintain all technology solutions for this squad. This includes managing the rotating on-call incident escalation and response processes for the squad
• Secure and safeguard data to preserve its integrity, reliability, and availability and ensure appropriate access levels are maintained
• Provides observability into the Squad’s work. Both terms of technology, SDLC, and humans
• Understand and manage the financial costs of the products and solutions the squad builds
• Understand the performance of the tech stacks you are responsible for
• Have a strong Quality Plan (how do we test, how do we write better code, what are our critical paths, runbooks, etc...) for the squad
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, other Engineering Managers, and Technical Leads (this is a responsibility not a role) to ensure the Squad has clear direction and priorities and is meeting product requirements
• Be conversant in the squad(s)’s code-bases with the ability to help out in a pinch (fix bugs, help out during an outage, and be in the on-call rotation)
• Ensures the administrative tasks are done
• Continue your own growth in usage of technology and working with Humans
• Support the improvement of SDLC, Career Packages, Domain Driven Design, Onboarding, Quality Plans, and other non-squad related projects across Engineering
• Build and nurture a vision and strategy for our data engineering, data science, and data services
• Be an industry thought leader, participating in public speaking events and meetups to showcase SpotHero as a leader in technology
• Translate that vision and strategy into a roadmap and prioritize features for highest impact and fastest time-to-market
• Partner with other Product Managers to help them quantitatively measure success for products being developed
• Work with all stakeholders across the organization to identify and establish a process for data modeling, data exploration, and data visualization