Engineering Manager, Backend

Summary

Join Ternary as an Engineering Manager, Backend, to drive product growth and lead teams building groundbreaking new products.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Engineering Management experience - including mentoring and coaching Senior developers in early-stage and enterprise companies
• Prior management of backend feature teams
• Want to keep your sleeves rolled up as a player-coach. A hands-on manager who is willing and adept at delving into the details, remaining hands-on coding, producing technical designs and conducting code reviews
• Passionate and adept at learning new knowledge and skills, skilled at quickly ramping up in new areas
• Have a bias for action, and don’t let sensitive topics fester. Interested in promoting these traits within your direct reports and greater Product Delivery org
• Technical depth allows you to develop and mentor others and build credibility with your team
• Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leads
• Experience establishing and measuring team goals
• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills
• Regularly consider business lens and tradeoffs even for deeply technical engineering problems
• Experience in building platform products, and driving algorithmic and AI powered features is a bonus
• Embody a startup mentality of taking ownership and driving initiatives forward with minimal supervision
• Uphold a high bar by participating in technical discussions, providing feedback on specs, and making recommendations
• Are excited to own new initiatives and take them from 0 to 1
• Ship and own high-impact products end-to-end with high quality
• Are an empathetic person and active listener who loves building solutions to help others
• Have experience in data warehouses and query engines, or classic Big Data technologies: BigQuery, Redshift, Athena, Snowflake, Hadoop and/or Spark

Responsibilities

• Guiding and supporting your team to solve the most impactful projects for our customers
• Understanding and supporting direct reports in their career development and growth while balancing overall project priorities, team morale, technical debt, and customer needs
• Lead, hire, and grow a high-caliber team of backend engineers
• Cultivate a culture of blame-free incident analysis and learning
• Act as the tech lead of the team, collaborate with product managers, engineering managers and other stakeholders
• Lead mission-critical projects and ship high quality products

Benefits

• Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year
• We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office
• Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success