Engineering Manager – Mid level/Senior

Who we are: 

At SpotHero, we work as a team to empower people to get everywhere, easier! We’re rapidly growing with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future through technology. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app and website to reserve convenient, affordable parking in advance, on-the-go or through their connected cars, and parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace. We’ve been quite busy, take a peek at some of our recent announcements.

Engineering Manager at SpotHero: 

As an Engineering Manager you will lead and inspire an engineering squad (team) composed of both Data Engineering and Analytical Engineers, expected to build products that support our scaling and performance challenges. You will help the squad build products, not just code. Own all technology solutions and ensure high-quality code is produced through ensuring adherence to software engineering best practices. Ensure squad scales efficiently and effectively executes against the product roadmap. Provide technical and professional growth for each direct report. Ability to be conversant in the squad’s code bases and is able to help out in a pinch (fix bugs, help out during an outage, and be in the on-call rotation). Drive innovation at process and project levels, defining new processes and consistently improving existing processes.

Data Engineering Squad at SpotHero: 

What you will do: 

• Squad Health
  • Own the people, process, and technology of one or two squads.
  • Builds and maintains Psychological Safety within the squad and beyond.
  • Responsible for building and growing a top-performing squad, including the hiring/firing, training, and performance management of the members on the squad.
  • Mentor and grow the capabilities of the squad(s) 
    • Drive results by establishing motivational goals and providing constructive feedback to squad members.
    • Assist squad in navigating relationships with Stakeholders e.g. Product, Design, Supply, etc. 
    • Develop training plans for continuous development of the squad’s engineering skills and product knowledge
    • Ensuring squad members grow in technical areas that are of interest to them and/or are less experienced in.
  • Actively think about how to evolve the squad capabilities beyond the individuals.

• Squad Quality
• Put in place development best practices to ensure the squad produces high-quality, well-written, and tested code.
• Measure metrics like velocity and determine ways to shorten the SDLC by uncovering the squads’ blockers and helping to remove them.
• Lead reviews of architecture design.
• Know and document the strengths and weaknesses of Products and technical stack
• Create a healthy balance between features and reduction of technical debt.
• Understand, own, and maintain all technology solutions for this squad. This includes managing the rotating on-call incident escalation and response processes for the squad.
• Secure and safeguard data to preserve its integrity, reliability, and availability and ensure appropriate access levels are maintained.
• Provides observability into the Squad’s work. Both terms of technology, SDLC, and humans.
• Understand and manage the financial costs of the products and solutions the squad builds.
• Understand the performance of the tech stacks you are responsible for.
• Have a strong Quality Plan (how do we test, how do we write better code, what are our critical paths, runbooks, etc...) for the squad

• Squad Delivery
  • Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, other Engineering Managers, and Technical Leads (this is a responsibility not a role) to ensure the Squad has clear direction and priorities and is meeting product requirements. 
  • Be conversant in the squad(s)’s code-bases with the ability to help out in a pinch (fix bugs, help out during an outage, and be in the on-call rotation).  
  • Ensures the administrative tasks are done.

• Engineering Leadership
  • Continue your own growth in usage of technology and working with Humans.
  • Support the improvement of SDLC, Career Packages, Domain Driven Design, Onboarding, Quality Plans, and other non-squad related projects across Engineering.
  • Be an industry thought leader, participating in public speaking events and meetups to showcase SpotHero as a leader in technology.
• Product Management
  • Build and nurture a vision and strategy for our data engineering, data science, and data services.
  • Translate that vision and strategy into a roadmap and prioritize features for highest impact and fastest time-to-market.
  • Partner with other Product Managers to help them quantitatively measure success for products being developed.
  • Work with all stakeholders across the organization to identify and establish a process for data modeling, data exploration, and data visualization.

What you value: 

• Being action-oriented: We do not operate in a vacuum but rather works across squad and code boundaries in order to complete tasks.
• Communicating openly: We communicate across squads and leagues to share ideas and signal, while simultaneously producing high quality documentation aimed towards providing an understanding of our products and to spread awareness of what we work on.
• Prioritizing education: We prioritize educating others on the best practices of the field they specialize in.
• Showing vulnerability: We are open about missteps, taking ownership of them and seek to improve upon them.
• Resiliency: We are resilient, embracing challenges with patience and determination to see tasks through to completion. 
• Flexibility to adapt: We are always iterating on our products and processes. Change is embraced!

What you bring: 

• Engineering
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science/related technical field
  • 5+ years as an engineer building and shipping software using Python, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, or React on multiple projects on complex distributed polyglot systems.
  • Proven ability to understand and vocalize opinions about architecture.
  • Familiar with Object Oriented Design, Domain Driven Design, Event Driven services.
• Management
  • 3+ years of management experience leading a squad of four or more engineers working on a distributed system in Golang, Java, Kotlin, or Python (or some combination of them).
  • 2+ years managing and maintaining infrastructure and platforms, including monitoring costs, version control, and feature enrichment.
  • Demonstrable experience mentoring and coaching reports to their desired career goals.
  • Demonstrable experience with small squads that move fast - all members are expected to be able to achieve maximum results with minimal direction.
• Product Management
  • 1+ years of experience working in product management working with numerous external analytics tools with use across different departments, with various intersections of internally generated data.
  • You’ve previously launched and iterated a product or service while in high-growth or scaling environments.
  • Ability to analyze, assess, and derive insights from data, that then become hypotheses you test in a split or multivariate test.
  • You are incredibly stakeholder-focused with a track record of driving results based on their needs and challenges.

You may also have/ Nice to Have: 

• Redshift, Hive, and/or Postgres experience.
• AWS experience
• Experience building and maintaining batch and streaming jobs.

Tools: 

• Log Management & Security Analysis Software (SumoLogic preferred), G Suite, BI Tool (Looker preferred), Issue and Project Tracking Software (Jira preferred), Team Collaboration Software (Confluence preferred).

Seeking Candidates in: 

• Chicago, Illinois
• Toronto, Ontario
• 2x per week in office 

What we are offering:

• Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast-growing startup in a role with unlimited growth potential.
• Excellent benefits
  • US: we cover a generous portion of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental and Vision Premiums, company-sponsored Life Insurance, a 401 (k), and generous parental leave. 
  • Canada: We offer Medical (prescription drug and paramedical coverage), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD and LTD.
• Flexible PTO policy and outstanding work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member.
• Udemy and Personal Learning Budget - We support the professional and personal growth of our people by providing everyone with learning resources and development opportunities. 
• Annual parking stipend – Duh. We help people park!
• The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual yet highly productive atmosphere.
• Our commitment to allyship has been a central driver of how we Respect Fellow Drivers. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of Employee Resource Groups, access allyship learning resources, and actively contribute to our ongoing effort of making SpotHero inclusive for all.
• A workplace recognized as CityLights award winner by 1871, 2025 Best Places To Work by BuiltIn, and recipients of the Best Company Culture, Best Company for Women, and Best Company for Diversity awards from Comparably! 

Compensation in Illinois:

• Depending on your skillset and experience, you can expect your base salary to be between $152,000 - $190,000 as well as a discretionary bonus and leading total rewards package including stock options.

Steps to apply: Please include any GitHub account, LinkedIn profile, and any project that you’re particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved working on.

At SpotHero, we Respect Fellow Drivers by providing an inclusive interview experience for everyone, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. Please let our team know of your need when you apply or as you begin interviewing with our team.

SpotHero is an equal opportunity employer. We know that a diverse workforce is the strongest workforce, and are committed to building and supporting an inclusive environment for all.

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PLEASE NOTE: This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship. To be considered for this role, you must be legally authorized to work in the US or Canada and not require sponsorship for employment now or in the future.