Engineering Manager
IQVIA
Senior Manager, Software Engineering – SMB
NerdWallet
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudGraphQLJavaScriptNext.jsReactRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript
About the role
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of 12+ software engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration.
- Partner with Product and Senior Leadership, to develop a business strategy and long-term roadmap for an entire platform and product portfolio, balancing stability, maintenance, and strategic innovation.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of complex, high-volume, and reliable systems that meet rigorous quality standards.
- Maintain and improve operational excellence (monitoring, SLAs, post-mortems, etc.)
- Manage engineers career paths and performance through setting objectives, regular feedback, and technical mentorship, sharing best practices.
- Establish a robust, data-centric strategy for identifying, quantifying, and eliminating yield/efficiency detractors within the product's operational flows.
- Partner closely with Product Management to implement the necessary data infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling to capture granular operational metrics that directly inform yield.
- Drive the execution of engineering projects specifically aimed at increasing business yield (e.g., optimizing resource allocation, reducing transaction failure rates, improving throughput, lowering latency/cost) based on newly derived data insights.
- Translate complex business goals related to yield and efficiency into clear, executable technical requirements and engineering deliverables.
- Champion best practices in engineering, including code review, performance tuning, system reliability, and disaster recovery.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience within the software engineering industry, including as an IC and engineering manager with 5+ years managing engineers
- Strong technical background and analytical abilities
- Experience in developing commercially successful web applications, at scale, using Ruby on Rails. Others like React, Next.js, Astro, GraphQL, and modern JavaScript languages like TypeScript, are nice to have.
- Experience engaging in knowledgeable discussions about systems architecture, data flows, and data structures specifically a long standing ruby on rails application
- Experience working in a fast paced company navigating ambiguity
- Strong background in project management, with a proven track record of managing and delivering complex engineering projects at scale and on time
- Past coding experience on consumer focused teams
- Strong problem solving and decision making abilities
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Cloud based technologies like AWS
- Experience in scrum and sprint processes
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
Benefits
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Rejuvenation Policy – Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + 4 Mental Health Days Off
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support
- Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend
- Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy
- Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
- Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments
- Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction
- Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match
- 401K with company match
- Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
- Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
- Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums
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Hard skills
Ruby on RailsReactNext.jsAstroGraphQLTypeScriptsystems architecturedata flowsdata structuresproject management
Soft skills
leadershipmentorshipanalytical abilitiesproblem solvingdecision makingorganizational skillstime managementcollaborationcommunicationadaptability
