[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Spark Advisors

Role Description

Spark is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team behind our broker productivity product. Our web-based broker platform is the best in the industry, and our customer base is growing fast. You'll make sure the platform keeps up with that growth and stays reliable, scalable, and easy to maintain. This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll own engineering for your squad from start to finish. You'll partner with Product and Design to understand how our services and workflows run today and find ways to improve them. You'll coach and guide a team of software engineers as they design and ship full-stack solutions. You'll also work with other engineering leaders to grow our technical foundation and keep quality and performance high. This is a fully remote position.

What You'll Do

• Build and guide the development of new product features to enable a frictionless broker experience
• Architect and design elegant technical solutions with a focus on impact
• Review code and specs and guide the technical direction of the team
• Support the development and prioritization of our tech infrastructure roadmap
• Provide mentorship and career coaching to direct reports, meeting individuals where they are
• Balance hands-on work with higher level technical guidance
• Coordinate with product to drive planning, prioritization, and execution of the roadmap
• Sequence and scope projects to align with business goals
• Manage team processes and productivity to ensure alignment and timely delivery of projects

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years in full stack software engineering in a startup environment
• Strong technical foundation in developing software with Python and Django or similar
• Experience architecting and owning production systems and complex frameworks
• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as Vue or React
• 1+ years in leading engineering teams in a management capacity
• Player/coach leadership style, balancing hands-on work with team management
• Experience hiring, growing, and managing software engineers
• Ability to collaborate directly with product, design, data, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to understand complex business problems and scope and develop elegant technical solutions
• Strong project management, planning, and prioritization skills with a focus on delivery
• Strong communication skills

More about our stack and the role

• Our stack is Python, Django, Celery, Vue, Redis, and Postgres
• We run on AWS and use modern tools for version control, continuous deployment, testing, and observability
• You'll manage a team of 3+ engineers

Compensation

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Spark. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is listed below. We expect most candidates to fall in the middle of the range. We also believe that your personal needs and preferences should be taken into consideration, so we allow some choice between equity and cash.

• Base Salary: $200,000 — $225,000 USD

Why you should join our team

By joining Spark, you will get in on the ground floor of a fast-moving, well-funded, and mission-driven startup where you will have a profound impact on the brokers and beneficiaries we serve. And you'll learn, grow, be challenged, and have fun with your team while doing it.

• Equity compensation
• Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia
• Flexible work location; co-working available
• 401k
• Paid Time Off
• Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
• Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
• 11 paid holidays
• 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
• Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi

Compliance

Spark is a proud participant in E-Verify. As part of our commitment to compliance, we use the E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of all employees working in the United States. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov .

Furthermore, for security and compliance requirements, we’re unable to accommodate international remote work. While we fully support travel and time off, all work must be conducted from an approved location within the U.S.

At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.

AI Notice

We may use AI-enabled tools to assist with certain aspects of our hiring process. These tools do not replace human decision-making, and all employment decisions are made by qualified team members in compliance with applicable laws.