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Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager

CompanyCompass
LocationNew York, NY, USA
Salary$167000 – $252000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelExpert or higher

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software development and at least 7+ years of which are management experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • A highly technical, hands-on developer and an effective people manager with experience directly leading teams and other managers.
  • Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, distributed backend systems or data platforms.
  • Experience with technologies such as Python, Typescript, Java, Golang, AWS, Kafka, React.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
  • Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high quality products.
  • Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives.
  • Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress.
  • Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow an organization of talented managers and engineers.
  • Participate in setting the organization’s goals, develop its roadmap with the organization, and often represent Transaction Platform interacting with senior leaders across the company.
  • Ensure that your team’s software adheres to transaction and user data privacy compliance regulations.
  • Provide guidance and support in career development, skill enhancement, and performance management for team members.
  • Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Collaborate with the technical team and product management to drive innovation, maintain code quality, and ensure adherence to software development best practices.
  • Work closely with senior leadership and other stakeholders to define, execute, and report on the software development strategy in alignment with the company’s overall goals.
  • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.
  • Collaborate with other engineering leaders to champion and evangelize a technical vision for engineering at Compass.
  • Be a connector across engineering teams to drive sound technical and architecture decisions that help effectively scale our products, considering short and long-term risks.

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.