Job Description

We are looking for a Engineering Manager for one of our Backend Engineering teams. We have a strong engineering culture focused on giving engineers ownership and autonomy over their tasks. The individual will be our an engineering tech lead and will work with a Product Manager on building out the product roadmap for the team. Our distributed backend systems handle petabyte-scale high volume data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week supporting our products.  Our clients include many of the top apps in the app-store including ESPN, The Weather Channel, Grindr, and Soundhound. About you:
Our ideal candidate has:

• Multiple years of technical and managerial experience in developing distributed systems
• Extensive experience working with a JVM language
• Deep familiarity with distributed computing frameworks and large scale data systems
• Managed or lead a team through several product cycles
• Conducted architecture and design reviews

You should:

• Manage, mentor and provide career growth guidance for a team of backend engineers.
• Be a player+coach with expertise in backend engineering to provide guidance during code, design, and architecture reviews
• Be comfortable finding the balance taking ownership of the team’s deliverables while giving the engineers the space to take ownership of their work
• Be passionate about technology and stay on top of new developments.
• Jump in and help the team deliver features when it is required
• Balance technical debt vs. feature development vs. supporting customers
• Direct hands on leader with distributed systems experience

About us:
We ...

• Are tackling some of the hardest problems in the mobile and distributed systems space
• Understand that taking proper time to design, code and test ultimately results in higher velocity.
• Invest in personal and professional development of our engineers
• Take our work seriously, but don't take ourselves seriously.