Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

GiddyUp is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers and manage an outsourced engineering agency. The role involves setting technical direction, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering significant business impact. This role reports into the Head of Product.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant development or engineer management experience in a start-up environment
• 3+ years experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and career progression and planning
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages

Responsibilities

• Ship Products: Lead a team of talented backend and frontend engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
• Collaborate with Product to scope new features and develop technical solutions to ensure effective and efficient delivery
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our users
• Collaborate with external engineering vendors and stakeholders
• Work closely with our external CMS development team to get a comprehensive knowledge of the platform and support the team as needed
• Responsible for managing the engineering budget including technology stack, full-time resources and external resources
• Own the platform infrastructure and ensure the platform scales appropriately during high load periods
• Responsible for ensuring the platform stays up-to-date and standard maintenance is completed
• Working knowledge of Data Privacy and Compliance standards and the implication on features being developed
• Ensure platform has adequate performance testing on both the backend and frontend
• Co-own scrum, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retros, backlog grooming with product
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges with the engineering organization
• Own all technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and keep the domain model up-to-date
• Effectively project manage engineering work to ensure the engineering team does not create roadblocks on cross departmental projects
• Communicate and collaborate with other managers, stakeholders and contractors
• Keep upper management in the loop to ensure they can make informed decisions regarding the business and the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Communications, Marketing, Business Administration or a related field
• Experience working in e-commerce
• Experience working in a start-up environment

Benefits

GiddyUp strives to provide a flexible, fun working environment. GiddyUp is a remote company and we’re looking for reliable team members who can succeed in a fully remote environment