Backend Engineering Manager
Posted on 11/18/2022
INACTIVE
Influencer marketing platform
Company Overview
Linqia's mission is to drive quantifiable and meaningful business results through technology that analyzes influence and content. Linqia is a full-service, tech-enabled platform that handles campaigns for the world’s leading brands from influencer selection to creative strategy to scale.
Data & Analytics
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$9.3M
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↓ -7%1 year growth
↓ -10%2 year growth
↓ -4%Locations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Kubernetes
Agile
Python
SQL
Java
AWS
Customer Service
REST APIs
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Software Engineering
Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science or a similar technical area of study or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years as a software engineer/developer working with software and cloud infrastructure
- 2+ years of experience being a team lead or a manager for a backend software engineering team
- A history of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other engineering managers on developing roadmaps and executing against them
- Eagerness to share your ideas, and openness to those of others
- History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment
- Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to other team members
- Proactive, quick decision maker with excellent communication and written skills
- Must work well under pressure, be sensitive to deadlines, be able to interact in a team environment, be able to adapt quickly to change, and possess good customer service skills
- Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases
- Have built scalable internal and public facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)
- Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth)
- Familiarity with Agile software development processes
- Very Good understanding of Relational Databases and SQL
- Experience with Python and/or Java
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 3-4 junior backend engineers
- Participate in architectural design work for the whole backend team of nine engineers to help improve upon the work the backend team is doing
- Be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution
- Be willing to get into the code, contributing directly to core product development as needed
- Foster ownership, inclusiveness, accountability, pragmatism, and urgency in the team
- Provide insightful leadership to achieve a high software engineering standard, including efficiency, quality, security, resiliency, and other best practices
- Review pull requests from the backend team and ensure the code is written to the agreed upon standards
- Excel at being a mentor and coach to engineers at all points of their career journey
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to define your team's vision and roadmap
- Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across the organization
- Provide insight, feedback, and recommendations to senior management regarding the development, capabilities, and potential of current and future software projects
- Be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects
Desired Qualifications
- 1+ years experience directly managing engineers
- Post Graduation degree in CS or further education or experience in computer science or other technical related field
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Microservice based infrastructure running on kubernetes