Engineering Manager, Backend

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Requirements:

• 2+ years of Engineering Management experience - including mentoring and coaching Senior developers in early-stage and enterprise companies.
• Prior management of backend feature teams.
• Want to keep your sleeves rolled up as a player-coach. A hands-on manager who is willing and adept at delving into the details, remaining hands-on coding, producing technical designs and conducting code reviews.
• Passionate and adept at learning new knowledge and skills, skilled at quickly ramping up in new areas.
• Have a bias for action, and don’t let sensitive topics fester. Interested in promoting these traits within your direct reports and greater Product Delivery org.
• Technical depth allows you to develop and mentor others and build credibility with your team.
• Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leads.
• Experience establishing and measuring team goals.
• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.
• Regularly consider business lens and tradeoffs even for deeply technical engineering problems.
• Experience in building platform products, and driving algorithmic and AI powered features is a bonus.
• Embody a startup mentality of taking ownership and driving initiatives forward with minimal supervision.
• Uphold a high bar by participating in technical discussions, providing feedback on specs, and making recommendations.
• Are excited to own new initiatives and take them from 0 to 1.
• Ship and own high-impact products end-to-end with high quality.
• Are an empathetic person and active listener who loves building solutions to help others.
• Have experience in data warehouses and query engines, or classic Big Data technologies: BigQuery, Redshift, Athena, Snowflake, Hadoop and/or Spark.

Responsibilities:

• Guiding and supporting your team to solve the most impactful projects for our customers.
• Understanding and supporting direct reports in their career development and growth while balancing overall project priorities, team morale, technical debt, and customer needs.
• Lead, hire, and grow a high-caliber team of backend engineers.
• Cultivate a culture of blame-free incident analysis and learning.
• Act as the tech lead of the team, collaborate with product managers, engineering managers and other stakeholders.
• Lead mission-critical projects and ship high quality products.
• Work in, or be willing to learn, multiple programming languages: API and backend in Go, Data hacking in SQL (BigQuery), and experience with distributed task execution (Temporal, Airflow).
• Build up an enterprise-grade ELT stack based on BigQuery and written in Go. If there's cloud-based billing or usage data out there, we want to ingest and activate it in our platform in the most secure and performant way possible.
• Research, evaluate, and apply machine learning and AI models to develop features such as anomaly detection, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
• Use the latest Google Cloud functionality to deliver features more easily and reliably. Keep our cloud footprint clean and documented using Terraform.
• Share responsibility for the day-to-day operation of our platform.
• Mentor other members of the team.