Technical Engineering Manager

Roberts Recruiting

  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    Our distributed backend systems handle petabyte-scale high volume data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week supporting our products. Be comfortable finding the balance taking ownership of the team’s deliverables while giving the engineers the space to take ownership of their work.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBoston, Massachusetts

    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.

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