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Senior Engineering Manager
Company | Compass |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
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Salary | $167000 – $252000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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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.