Remote Engineering Manager, Notifications

Summary

Join Whatnot, the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, as an Engineering Manager of the Notifications team. You'll be responsible for building a world-class messaging framework, hiring and developing engineers, collaborating with product and design counterparts, and planning and managing projects.

Requirements

• Have experience leading a team of engineers to deliver significant business impact
• Have experience guiding them through both their career development, and executing in a high growth environment
• Have low ego, an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources
• Effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams
• Operate as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces across web and mobile
• Have great taste in building user experiences and the systems behind them, understand how form follows function, and effectively direct teams to build in this manner
• Are comfortable with technical debt and how to leverage it
• Understand how to instrument product metrics, recognizing the value and limits of data
• Can effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity
• Have substantial hands-on experience of doing the job you’ll be managing

Responsibilities

• Build a world class messaging framework that will allow us to send the right messaging to the right users at the right time
• Hire and develop engineers across all our consumer applications and backend systems
• Collaborate with your product and design counterparts to influence the strategic direction of the team, advocating for technical solutions that help us grow Whatnot as a whole
• Plan and manage projects, coordinating and aligning your team's goals against others across the business

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence