Manager – Software Engineering

What you’ll be doing

• Help build the best possible product that is performant, reliable, scalable and beautiful, working on diverse projects and collaborating with engineering teams across four countries (and growing)
• Leading a team of frontend, backend, and full stack engineers. Your team will look to you for direction and guidance.  You’ll be responsible for ensuring your team hits OKRs and for providing high level direction on technologies, frameworks, etc
• Solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to our customers and app users which span across other engineers and product managers
• Collaborate closely with our product, QA, and revenue organizations to roll out features efficiently and in a timely manner across the entire release cycle
• Learning new things and challenging yourself to architect and implement features for our iPaaS and automation products, workflow orchestration and analytics engine
• Build, debug and manage queues, schedule jobs, map data across different APIs, handle errors, and help solve large scale infrastructure and engineering challenges for some of our most strategic accounts at scale
• Create infrastructure and internal tooling to handle extremely high transaction volume (millions of executions per minute)
• Teach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help you grow
• Participate in regular code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge across all of Alloy.
• Foster a deep rooted documentation culture across your team.
• Provide mentoring and feedback to your team on a regular basis

Skills & experience we’re excited about

• Over 10 years of relevant software engineering experience, and building web applications at scale with Node, React, Typescript, JavaScript, AWS, MongoDB, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Proven track record as a technical and people leader, with experience growing and building engineering teams
• Strong opinions and willingness to voice them
• Proven understanding of cloud infrastructure in a production environment
• Have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions; proficient in debugging and troubleshooting techniques to diagnose and resolve issues in production systems
• Strong interpersonal skills and clear communication abilities.  You should be comfortable and willing to give feedback to your teammates to help them level up
• Proficient in back-end development concepts, including server-side architecture, design and architectural pattern and best practices in software development, APIs, databases, and authentication/authorization mechanisms
• Experience running production systems including deploying, monitoring, and debugging; optimizing code, enhancing performance, and improving system scalability and reliability
• Understand the importance of security in software development and knowledgeable about common security vulnerabilities and best practices to mitigate them