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Red Ventures is a company with over 20 years of experience in building strategic relationships with powerful brands across various industries. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, focusing on delivering high-quality software and fostering a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of software engineers and position them for success through training, mentorship, and leadership
• Contribute to key architectural decisions
• Drive delivery and daily execution across an engineering team
• Plan across one or more sprint teams
• Partner with project managers to scope, plan, and drive execution from the team
• Develop working relationships with the Customer Experience, Product, and Creative teams to enable your team to deliver high-quality features and timely solutions to problems that arise
• Work closely with the engineers to improve process and code quality
• Responsible for soliciting feedback and delivering reviews
• Work with the Technical Project Manager to navigate ceremonies and sprints, and manage the ticket workflow in Jira
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers across the organization to align on talent expectations, innovation, and resourcing
• Demonstrate project and roadmap planning skills
• Assist with defining standards and requirements for tech tooling/workflows
• Lead SRE, incident management, and Devops best practices for the engineering team
• Manage the delivery of high-quality software while keeping morale high
• Be a shepherd of culture

Requirements:

• This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on OPT and STEM-EXT OPT, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp
• Manage a team of software engineers and position them for success through training, mentorship, and leadership
• Contribute to key architectural decisions
• Drive delivery and daily execution across an engineering team
• Plan across one or more sprint teams
• Partner with project managers to scope, plan, and drive execution from the team
• Develop working relationships with the Customer Experience, Product, and Creative teams to enable your team to deliver high-quality features and timely solutions to problems that arise
• Work closely with the engineers to improve process and code quality
• Responsible for soliciting feedback and delivering reviews
• Work with the Technical Project Manager to navigate ceremonies and sprints, and manage the ticket workflow in Jira
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers across the organization to align on talent expectations, innovation, and resourcing
• Demonstrate project and roadmap planning skills
• Assist with defining standards and requirements for tech tooling/workflows
• Lead SRE, incident management, and Devops best practices for the engineering team
• Manage the delivery of high-quality software while keeping morale high
• Be a shepherd of culture
• A passion for people
• Experience leading software teams
• Ability to teach, develop, and give feedback to team members
• Familiarity with modern application design, such as serverless, event-based, and functional architectures
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, React/Next, Node, Typescript, SQL and, AWS or Azure
• Experience building integrations with external APIs
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform
• Experience with full-stack development and various databases
• Experience with implementing integration testing, E2E testing, and regression testing
• Experience with sales, CRM, or ERP systems
• Ability to assess team's resourcing and delivery scope and estimates
• Growth Mindset: A relentless desire to learn and excel in a tech-driven environment
• Excellent communication skills for effective team collaboration, including the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with agile methodologies and tools (Jira)
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect Certification
• Experience with telemetry and monitoring such as New Relic or AWS Cloud Watch
• Experience with DataBricks
• Ability to read, write, and debug SQL queries
• Understanding of how eventing works, how data pipelines work, and what type of support these ecosystems need
• A past in navigating legal and compliance audits and approvals
• Experience managing engineers whose function is outside your core expertise (e.g., you're a front-end engineer overseeing DevOps)
• Experience leading/working on more than one sprint team at a time
• Experience working in the consumer internet space
• Core Web Vital, overall site speed and Accessibility best practices