Engineering Manager (Mid level/Senior), Data

About the position

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. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and inspire an engineering squad 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the people, process, and technology of one or two squads.
• Build and maintain 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.
• 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.
• Secure and safeguard data to preserve its integrity, reliability, and availability and ensure appropriate access levels are maintained.
• Provide observability into the Squad's work.
• Understand and manage the financial costs of the products and solutions the squad builds.
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, other Engineering Managers, and Technical Leads 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.
• Ensure the administrative tasks are done.

Requirements

• 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.
• 3+ years of management experience leading a squad of four or more engineers working on a distributed system in Golang, Java or Python (or some combination of the three).
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

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

Benefits

• Generous portion of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental and Vision Premiums, company-sponsored Life Insurance, a 401 (k), and generous parental leave for US employees.
• Medical (prescription drug and paramedical coverage), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD and LTD for Canada employees.
• Flexible PTO policy and outstanding work/life balance.
• Udemy and Personal Learning Budget for professional and personal growth.
• Annual parking stipend.
• Collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual yet highly productive atmosphere.
• A company that cares about its employees' unique backgrounds with Employee Resource Groups and Unconscious Bias Trainings.