Engineering Manager

Summary

Join NinjaHoldings' Engineering team as Engineering Manager to lead and grow the CreditNinja development team. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, contribute to software development, and foster a collaborative environment. Strong relationships with business teams are crucial, requiring excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical issues. The ideal candidate possesses a results-oriented approach, advocating for clean coding principles and high-performance software. This role involves making informed architectural decisions and mentoring team members. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible remote work, and a dynamic startup culture.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of experience as a Developer, QA or DevOps Engineer experience
• 2+ years’ experience as an Engineering Manager
• You have years of experience leading across the software development lifecycle, including deep knowledge of industry best practices, including but not limited to, pull requests and code reviews, continuous integration and delivery, and post-deployment monitoring and analysis
• You're a problem solver, and you value passing on your knowledge and methodologies to create a force-multiplier effect
• You have ample experience advising, coaching, and mentoring peers, direct reports, and less experienced team members
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Experience growing an Engineering organization

Responsibilities

• Organize, lead and contribute to engineering efforts while demonstrating total ownership of projects, cycles, and programs
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence and execution
• Contribute to the design and development of existing and new experiences, and foster a team environment that promotes creative thinking, practical problem-solving and a culture that testing is everyone’s job
• Work by and with individual contributors to make informed and thoughtful architectural decisions that ultimately benefit our users
• Be a steadfast advocate for clean and scalable coding principles and high-performance, secure, easily testable and reliable software services

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in growth stage companies
• Experience in fintech, banking, and lending a big plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
• Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city