About the Role

The Juniper Square engineering team is growing fast. As an Engineering Manager, you will build, lead, and develop engineering teams that can deliver a rapidly evolving software platform.

Your role is to collaborate with the leadership team to deliver on these objectives and support teams throughout the execution of both engineering and product roadmap projects while setting and maintaining a high standard.

About the Platform Team

The platform team is focused on enabling Juniper Square engineers to build scalable and robust applications off of a common set of shared services and frameworks. The team’s mission is to provide developers with a world-class developer experience.

The team is responsible for building and operating shared services such as but not limited to a notification service, authorization, and authentication. Building any tools, frameworks, and improvements around the developer’s experience in building or operating services along the entire SDLC.

What You’ll Do

• Be a leader on the team, influencing and empowering others to do their best work
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and technical recruiting teams to refine our hiring process and build a high-caliber engineering team
• Partner closely with the development, SRE, and product teams to create and prioritize the platform team’s roadmap.
• Guide the planning process and effectively communicate with stakeholders to identify and resolve dependencies
• Provide context to your team and drive alignment towards the business objectives
• Support engineering teams in building and delivering high-quality software, leveraging your software engineering expertise
• Build quality relationships with team members, including direct reports, technical leaders, and other managers
• Coach and guide the development of engineers on your team
• Guide your team on making trade-offs as build vs buy
• Define best practices for engineering on Service Oriented Architecture
• Spending 20% of your time with hands-on development

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills and a strong ability to articulate complex ideas at both a conceptual and deeply technical level
  • Proven ability to collaborate with product managers and engineers to build plans, set expectations, and successfully deliver projects
  • Experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies
  • Develop in a face-paced environment with frequent deployment and release cycles
• 3+ years of experience on a platform shared services team
  • Contributing to the team’s roadmap creation and prioritization based on feedback from engineering teams and products.
  • Building shared services that are leveraged by other development teams
  • Internal development teams as a customer mindset
• 6+ years of experience in software development of web-based applications
  • Excellent technical background with a solid understanding of web applications and data modeling in a service-oriented architecture
  • Experience in building, deploying, operating, and maintaining multiple services in production environments.
  • Mentoring other developers through code review and technical design review
  • Experience in the following:
    • Building APIs in REST or GraphQL
    • Development in either Python / Typescript / Java / Kotlin / Go
    • Development with some of PostgreSQL / MYSQL / Redis / Elasticsearch / MongoDB
    • One of the following Kubernetes / Nomad / Docker Swarm 
    • One of these cloud providers AWS / GCP / Azure
    • Observability with one of the following New Relic / Datadog / Splunk - SignalFx / Dynatrace / Sumo Logic
    • Development within CI/CD Pipelines  

At Juniper Square, we believe building a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture makes us a better company. If you think this job sounds like a fit, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the qualifications.

Compensation

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $165,600 - $276,000. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in Canada, and offer competitive local pay and benefits. Your recruiter can provide further details.

Benefits include:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Mental wellness coverage
• Fertility and growing family support
• Unlimited vacation in addition to company paid holidays
• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Healthcare FSA and commuter benefits programs
• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
• Annual professional development stipend

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