Engineering Manager
Storable is looking for a technical Manager who will be responsible for growing and mentoring a team of engineers and be accountable for the teams overall performance through the next phase of Storable’s growth. Successful candidates will have outstanding analytic capabilities and a track record of delivering successful products as both a developer and lead. The ability to prioritize changing demands in addition to being extremely process focused in a fast paced environment is a must. The successful candidate must be a passionate, transparent, and straight-forward leader and communicator, energized by the idea of developing talent and a world-class engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and champion the development process: SDLC, coding standards, code-reviews check-ins and builds, issue tracking, bug triages, incident management. and testing
- Build and maintain a high performing software development team including hiring, training, and onboarding
- Identify opportunities to eliminate non-value add activities to enable our developers to do what they love best – developing! No pointless meetings, no unnecessary interruptions, no random changes of course, no new problems from on high dumped in their lap each month
- Identify growth opportunities for team members to continue to learn and develop in a supportive environment
- Provide an engaging and challenging landscape for career growth
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and motivation to the engineering team to sustain high levels of productivity and morale
- Collaborate with Product Management on product requirements
- Champion and advocate for the engineering team to the rest of the organization
- Create a positive culture of fairness, quality, and accountability while challenging the status quo and bringing new ideas to light
- Participate as a member of Storable’s Engineering Leadership team to build a high performing organization across multiple locations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, 2+ years of development leadership experience
- Demonstrated technical leadership and people management skills
- Experience with agile development processes
- Hands-on experience in driving/leading technical efforts in cloud-based applications
- Proven track record of driving quality within a team, with a commitment to automated testing
- Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively influence product at different levels of abstraction and communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent coding skills to provide guidance and craftsmanship for our engineers
- Technical acumen to provide solid judgment in situations so you can provide the optimal short term decisions without sacrificing long term technology goals
- Demonstrated critical analysis skills to provide continuous improvement of technology, process, and productivity
Technical Experience
We are looking for someone who has experience working in environments that utilize some of the following technologies:
- AWS
- Ruby Rails
- Jira
- GitHub
- CI/CD
- SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)