ActBlue

Engineering Manager

ActBlue

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona, California, Colorado

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Salary

💰 $173,676 - $210,741 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

ReactRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

  • Lead the Fundraising Capabilities Experimentation & Expansion (FCEE) team within ActBlue’s engineering department to build capabilities supporting traditional and emerging fundraising formats.
  • Expertly lead a diverse team of software engineers through greenfield beta launches to general availability releases via rapid product development cycles.
  • Support professional development of direct reports with feedback, goal-setting, check-ins, and performance reviews.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and UX leads to formulate and deliver roadmaps aligned with strategic goals.
  • Ensure team delivers on roadmap and achieves target strategic outcomes.
  • Prioritize frequent delivery of small iterations to enable fast learning and consistent value delivery.
  • Drive communication between teams, resolve blockers, and escalate concerns proactively.
  • Provide team with context and resources needed to achieve goals.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to cultivate a thriving work environment.
  • Facilitate technical decision-making emphasizing maintainability, scalability, and performance.
  • Oversee end-to-end software development while championing a user-centric approach to product iteration and improvement.
  • Promote transparent communication channels internally and with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization.

Requirements

  • People management experience: 3-5+ years of experience supporting a team of individual contributors at multiple levels, fostering their professional development, and enhancing team performance.
  • Experience building user-centric engineering products.
  • Expertise and creativity when it comes to delivering value fast, with a focus on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos.
  • Experience helping teams optimize their collaborations and results using regular feedback loops, retrospectives, experimentation, and iteration.
  • Strong understanding of and experience with industry best practices for managing software development, particularly agile processes and roles/responsibilities.
  • Strong leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and consensus across teams and stakeholders.
  • Strong communication skills with a team-centric and remote-reliant approach to discussion and collaboration.
  • Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, and fostering a strong sense of belonging on teams.
  • Experience providing project management and organizational support on complex technical projects from end to end that deliver timely and effective results.
  • A successful track record with recruiting, retaining, and growing engineering teams.
  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the desire to cultivate this in your team.
  • BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE… Previous experience in payments, B2B, and/or two-sided marketplaces.
  • BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE… Experience working with products and organizations that have scaled rapidly.
  • BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE… Previous experience working with Ruby on Rails and/or React.