Backend Engineering Manager
Posted on 11/18/2022
INACTIVE
Linqia

51-200 employees

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