
Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Backend Java/AWS
EEOC
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Arizona, California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,000 - $225,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSChefCloudJavaOpen SourcePuppetSpringVMware
About the role
- Manages activities of two or more teams.
- Build Product Engineering components and maintain them through production.
- Provide supervision in terms of costs, methods, and staffing.
- Provide technical guidance to design and engineering patterns on product design.
- Guide efforts applied to identification, enhancement and automation of applications and systems.
- Ensure testing policies and procedures are followed.
- Provide input for employee selection, training, guidance, performance management and development to ensure department objectives and Service Level Agreements (SLA) are met.
- Actively contribute toward the vision, organization and leadership of the Engineering team(s).
- Enhance and mature the Agile software development lifecycle within the team by applying industry best practices and processes.
- Keep management informed of team progress, problems and solutions.
- Participate in and support initiatives for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.
- Serve as main liaison between Engineering and other departments within the company.
- Promote DevOps principles and collaborate with other groups.
- Support the company’s commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
- Manager is involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies that affect immediate operations and may also have company-wide effect.
- Manager may have subordinate supervisors or team leads as well as engineers as direct reports.
- Establishes and assures teams adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
- Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Requirements
- Education and /or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
- Three or more years of experience in the following: Full Stack development/ development management (Technologies: Java, Spring, AWS Cloud) system automation, scripting, Chef, Puppet or similar Cloud technologies, VMWare, AWS, or similar
- Automated testing, continuous integration and delivery
- Demonstrated experience with state of the art technology, architecture and design concepts, operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security.
- Experience with open source frameworks and tools.
- Proven experience in Agile and DevOps software development philosophy, methodologies, practices, and procedures.
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results.
- Must be able to excel in a fast paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Work experience that demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Ability to envision project goals, product architectural solutions, and focus on details and tasks to ensure successful implementation.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple deadline-driven projects simultaneously.
- Proven prior leadership experience.
- Proven leadership skills in leading DevOps teams and their interaction across an organization.
Benefits
- Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
- Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
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Hard skills
Full Stack developmentJavaSpringAWS Cloudsystem automationscriptingChefPuppetVMWareautomated testing
Soft skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationownershipurgencydriveproject managementattention to detailindependenceadaptabilitycommunication
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science