[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @About, Inc.

Role Description

This role involves managing and mentoring developers while working in a collaborative Agile environment to support and expand the search and recommendation services across the Home and Food brands.

• Manage and mentor developers on your team to grow their skills and prepare them for increased responsibility.
• Prototype and develop responsive and elegant cross-platform functionality on a custom server-side component framework, built on Java but leveraging SCSS, Freemarker templates, and ES6 on the front-end, with VueJS increasingly used for more interactive components.
• Contribute to maintaining People Inc.’s commitment to highly performant sites.
• Research new technologies to solve problems and improve existing systems.
• Lead discussions about project architecture and technical feasibility, make decisions, and justify your development approach.
• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to launch new features while maintaining engineering standards.
• Organize, track, and lead the paying down of technical debt.
• Develop Looker Views and Models to democratize access to data products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, ML, Backend) to scope and build ML-powered UI experiences.
• Create and manage ML ops workflows or ML infrastructure.
• Own technical decisions involving front-end performance, architecture, and reliability.
• Guide and support Elasticsearch integration for user-facing search functionality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a full stack web development position.
• 3+ years managing engineers.
• High levels of skill with HTML, CSS, SCSS, and vanilla Javascript; significant experience with one or more other languages.
• Significant experience with at least one server-side templating language - think JSP, Twig, Python or Handlebar.
• Alternatively, experience working with a component-based web framework, particularly one with a server-side templating aspect (e.g., Vue+Nuxt).
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar search tools.
• Experience with at least one cloud service platform (GCP and AWS preferred).
• Experience working with data at scale using Apache Spark, Beam or a similar framework.
• Familiarity with data streaming architectures using technologies like Pub/Sub and Apache Kafka.
• Knowledge of web performance standards and Google’s Core Web Vitals.
• Proven track record of working with 3rd party APIs and integrating them into web applications.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly requirements – and vice versa.
• Comfortable using the tools of modern collaborative Agile+Scrum SDLC, including Git, Jira, etc.

Requirements

• Equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy for all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
• Participation in the federal E-Verify program to confirm identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.

Benefits

• Salary range: New York: $180,000 - $200,000.
• Annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Adoption or surrogate assistance.
• Donation matching.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Basic life insurance and supplemental life insurance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Short term and long term disability.
• Health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• Family care benefits.
• A generous 401K savings plan with a company match program.
• 10-12 paid holidays annually.
• Generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents).
• Voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.