Technical Engineering Manager

Engineering ManagerWe are looking for an Engineering Manager for one of our backend engineering teams. We have a strong engineering culture focused on giving engineers ownership and autonomy over their tasks. The individual will be an engineering tech lead and will work with a product manager on building out the product roadmap for the team. Our distributed backend systems handle petabyte-scale high volume data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week supporting our products. Our clients include many of the top apps in the app-store including ESPN, The Weather Channel, Grindr, and Soundhound.About You:Our ideal candidate has:Multiple years of technical and managerial experience in developing distributed systemsExtensive experience working with a JVM languageDeep familiarity with distributed computing frameworks and large scale data systemsManaged or lead a team through several product cyclesConducted architecture and design reviewsYou Should:Manage, mentor and provide career growth guidance for a team of backend engineers. Be a player+coach with expertise in backend engineering to provide guidance during code, design, and architecture reviews. Be comfortable finding the balance taking ownership of the team's deliverables while giving the engineers the space to take ownership of their work. Be passionate about technology and stay on top of new developments. Jump in and help the team deliver features when it is required. Balance technical debt vs. feature development vs. supporting customers. Direct hands on leader with distributed systems experience.About Us:We are tackling some of the hardest problems in the mobile and distributed systems space. Understand that taking proper time to design, code and test ultimately results in higher velocity. Invest in personal and professional development of our engineers. Take our work seriously, but don't take ourselves seriously.