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Software Engineering Manager – Developer Experience
| Company | Velocity Global |
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| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $176000 – $229000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field such as physics or mathematics, or equivalent technical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in product development leadership with prior hands-on experience.
- Proven track record of building and delivering high-quality, scalable SaaS products, and platforms.
- A passion for adopting modern software development practices to foster creativity, flow, and on-time delivery.
- Hands-on expertise in core technology patterns such as authentication & authorization systems, single-page application architectures, API frameworks (REST, GraphQL), persistence stores, and real-time messaging frameworks hosted on public clouds like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- A natural leader with the ability to organize and inspire others, providing an environment for learning and growth.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and manage geographically and culturally diverse teams.
- Proven ability to provide open and frequent communication across the organization to facilitate product adoption.
- Experience managing a budget, balancing priorities, and making tough decisions backed by data.
Responsibilities
- Be able to shepherd an organization of industry-leading software engineers to drive the realization of our technology vision and strategy.
- Recruit top-notch talent to join our existing team while mentoring and growing high-potential leaders within the organization.
- Partner with product management and other leaders to understand business drivers and the competitive landscape to define organizational priorities and strategies for product development.
- Think big and be bold, monitoring and understanding technology trends and identifying appropriate methods to incorporate them into future products and technology.
- Cultivate an atmosphere of continuous improvement, using objective metrics to constantly raise the bar on execution excellence.
- Keep the team connected across locations and multiple strategic initiatives.
- Identify and navigate organizational change with a keen interest in international trends in engineering and leadership, continuously cultivating positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Work with the SRE and Security Engineering team on high observability to ensure stability, performance and security of all products and technology we build.
- Be flexible to work on front end and back end technologies, primarily TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, and Python.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
