Software Engineering Manager
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Digital Products
Scout Motors Inc.
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
JavaKotlinMicroservicesSwift
About the role
- Lead a team of highly skilled software engineers and drive development of digital solutions across order management, customer management, marketing, production, inventory and planning optimization, loyalty, merchandise, servicing and repairs, mobile app, vehicle connectivity, and more
- Work with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design the technical underpinnings of products
- Be hands-on building key systems and directly responsible for successful delivery of complex and large-scale technical efforts
- Act as a technical mentor and leader for other engineers, calibrating and developing the software engineering team
- Partner with product and design to produce how and when plans to support systems and product requirements and make effective tradeoffs
- Assess and recommend key tools and technology decisions, influencing build/buy/partner choices
- Develop technology and best practices to support scalable, functional, and reliable software products and integrations
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects to evolve and scale early-stage products, tame complexity, and shore up reliability of existing systems
- Champion software engineering and operational excellence, establishing and improving metrics, tooling, and processes
- Recruit and manage a team of software engineers, setting the bar for quality software development
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and scaling software products, providing technical leadership and direction for development, preferably with a focus on ecommerce, payments, digital products, and back-end platform development
- Experience building comprehensive understanding of APIs, microservices, and other complex backend systems
- Strong coding skills, navigating codebases with different languages (GoLang, Java, Kotlin and Swift) and tools, building and managing ci/cd pipelines supporting both web and mobile releases
- Knowledge of potential system vulnerabilities and how to prevent them
- Experience operating in start-up settings, launching 0 to 1 product, supporting early low-code tools, and driving graduation to highly customized applications
- Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- Experience integrating with 3rd party platforms and partnering with external service providers
- 4+ years in leading high-performing software engineering teams
- Demonstrated integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, positive attitude, and a growth mindset; comfortable with change in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Role may be based out of a Scout Motors location in Fremont, CA or remote within the United States; this role is not eligible for remote work in New York City
- Responsibilities require attendance in office with in-person meetings and events regularly and ability to travel occasionally
