Senior Engineering Manager, UrbanFootprint
$210-240k
+ Stock options
Urban intelligence platform
Job no longer available
Urban intelligence platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$210-240k
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower those who build our world to design a more efficient, aquitable, and resilient future.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams
- Impact from driving operational excellence including an understanding of SRE principles, observability, cost-optimized architecture design, data privacy, and security
- Experience building process and scaling engineering teams and infrastructure at a fast-growing startup
- High EQ leader with excellent communication skills. Able to earn trust/respect, rally a team around shared goals, and bring out the best in people
- Strong strategic business acumen and problem-solving ability, and a constant champion of continuous improvement
- Experience with any of React, Python, AWS, GCP, K8s/microservice patterns
- A track record of success working with Product and technical leadership to push product development forward
- Fluent with modern development, build, deployment, and automation tools
- Experience estimating engineering efforts, scoping work, and tracking progress
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to rapid change, preferably in a startup environment
- Ability to identify knowledge gaps and support team members to fill them
Desirable
- Demonstrated experience refactoring, modernizing and rewriting complex, legacy code bases
- Aligned with holistic engineering theory and practice
- A background in QA or as SDET to add expertise in this area
- Experience developing geospatial and map-based applications
- Deep understanding of developing applications for the browser
- Google BigQuery and/or PostGIS experience
- Professional level GCP or AWS certification
- Security by design, testing and remediation experience (e.g. OWASP Top 10)
- Passion for instrumentation, metrics, automation, and short feedback loops
- Experience working in a SOC-II environment
- A passion for urban planning, climate resilience, social equity, and leveraging data to facilitate a more equitable and resilient society
- Grown teams from 5 to 50
What the job involves
- Partner with internal stakeholders to define an engineering strategy that supports business, financial, operational, and product goals
- Represent the Engineering function to key external stakeholders
- Ensure that engineering and product visions are aligned and that key engineering team members are front and center of product definition
- Manage execution and delivery through active management of product development timelines, setting realistic expectations, and applying rigorous scoping practice
- Promote and mentor engineering team members in cloud-native architecture design patterns and development strategies
- Oversee engineering’s contributions to UrbanFootprint’s Agile product development process
- Champion best practice engineering principles for building on AWS and GCP
- Drive continuous improvement in software development, resilience, and operational excellence
- Grow organizational capability within the engineering team. Recruit outstanding talent and foster an environment where that talent can thrive
- Build an engineering culture where all team members are engaged with its partners in Product and Data Engineering
- Manage and develop UrbanFootprint’s crew of senior software engineers. Provide advancement and professional development opportunities
Our take
Cities are increasingly complex and interconnected landscapes to navigate. UrbanFootprint, a location intelligence and urban planning company, supplies software that enables users to look at multiple different outcomes simultaneously, to help not only urban planners and architects but also corporations ranging from manufacturers to utilities and healthcare providers.
UrbanFootprint's software is versatile and high-utility, providing clients with nationwide data and sector-specific insights. In the wake of the pandemic, the company helped governments craft better assistance programs by identifying the neighborhoods most in need of support, and, as the spotlight on climate change grows ever brighter, it has helped public agencies to prioritize climate resilience projects.
UrbanFootprint's ability to help navigate the critical fields of urban transformation, climate change, social equity, and community resilience should keep it in high demand as government and public attitudes shift to address these issues.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Feb 2020
$11.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & holidays
- Summer Fridays
- No internal meetings on Wednesdays
- Equity
- All the tools you need to succeed
- Comprehensive health, dental, & vision
- Paid parental and family leave
- 401k with 2% match
- Annual learning & development credit
- Commuter benefits for Berkeley office
Company HQ
North Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Leadership
Joe DiStefano
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at UCB, they worked as a Principal of Calthorpe Associates and a Board Member for Livable Berkeley for 17 and 7 years respectively. They co-founded Golometrics in 2009, before starting UrbanFootprint in July 2014.
Peter Calthorpe
(Co-Founder & Principal)They started as a Principal at Calthorpe Associates in 1983, where they have been Principal since. They co-founded UrbanFootprint in 2014, serving simultaneously as Principal.
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