Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Requirements

• 8+ years of development experience, preferably full-stack.
• Additional 5+ years managing engineering and technology delivery teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge and working experience with highly-scalable architectures, patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, REST, NoSQL and Event-Driven Architecture.
• Experience creating architecture designs that incorporate resiliency and performance.
• Experience managing a globally distributed delivery team utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Good troubleshooting skills for triaging problems in production and test environments.
• Experience in a large media, technology or internet company.
• Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget.
• A comfort level with complex, matrixed organizations containing a certain amount of ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Executive Management.
• Proven experience managing software development lifecycle platforms and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor world class delivery teams consisting of full stack software engineers, web developers, application architects, product managers and scrum masters.
• Own application development and delivery for multiple large projects.
• Collaborate with other tech teams, businesses across sites for project deliverables, develop platform vision and roadmap.
• Develop and present project statuses, project concepts and platform roadmaps to senior leaders.
• Be responsible for technical analysis, effort estimation, product, and system design, evaluating architectural fit and compliance, resource schedules, delivery milestones and overall product quality.
• Display technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, process improvements, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions.
• Resolve conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies.
• Enforce and grow a culture focused on quality and experience improvements.
• Ensure multiple concurrent ongoing projects and team objectives are resourced effectively to accomplish goals.
• Meet with stakeholders, vendor partners and customers on a recurring basis to review team priorities, execution and pertinent business/delivery updates.
• Effectively manage project/solution timeline and financials including budget, cost, invoices and contracts.
• Support on-call response to critical operational issues; be able to work beyond normal hours and support implementation transition activities and hyper-care shifts as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains
• Experience in travel and hospitality/hotel industries