Senior Engineering Manager

We work with growing companies to provide oversight of information technology strategy, systems, and processes required to support a company’s mission.  Because these companies are not ready to hire a full-time Chief Information Officer (CIO) to ensure the tech systems and procedures lead to outcomes in line with business goals, they outsource that to us.  Our clients say we help demystify technology by removing their fears and creating business value through technology, so they can focus on their business.

Duties & Responsibilities 

• Help define technical strategy and architecture.
• Review the pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Coach, provide technical guidance to and mentor team members.
• Pair up with someone to work together on a feature.
• Deploy to production multiple times.
• Work with senior leadership to define the roadmap.

referred Qualifications

• Advanced CS degree or equivalent.
• Startup experience.

VERY IMPORTANT

You will need to have recent/heavy experience with Ruby, at least 5 years of exp. Being strong with Ruby is very important because all of the engineers you will be managing are Ruby Engineers. You need to have at least 2 years of exp.Managing teams. You also need to be able to be a little hands on, as they are looking for someone who will be 70% handsoff/30% hands on. If someone has Elixir/Phoenix framework that is a HUGE plus!!!

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ yrs web development experience
• 2+ years of experience managing a development team
• Experience working with product management to align on objectives and risks
• Fluency with any of Ruby, Elixir, Erlang.
• Strong understanding of web technologies: HTML5, Javascript, CSS/SASS, REST, JSON.
• Strong understanding of web-app performance fundamentals and related dev tools.
• Strong database fundamentals and experience with MySql or Postgresql.
• Worked with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Lucene, Solr.
• Experience using async message queues such as Kafka.
• Mastery of git and Github workflows.
• Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.