Snap Inc.

Software Engineering Manager

Snap Inc.

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Washington

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Salary

💰 $229,000 - $343,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Distributed Systems

About the role

  • Snap Inc is a technology company that builds camera-driven consumer products such as Snapchat, Lens Studio and Spectacles
  • Manage and mentor a software development team to deliver high availability, mission-critical systems
  • Set strategy, build roadmap, create measurable goals and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Evaluate technical tradeoffs, lead large complex initiatives, and hire/grow/retain team members
  • Practice Snap's “Default Together” policy and work in an office 4+ days per week

Requirements

  • Manage and mentor a team of developers in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
  • Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
  • Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
  • Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
  • Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members by creating growth opportunities, giving regular feedback, and managing performance
  • Balance near, medium and long-term objectives to achieve business goals today while laying the foundations for a long term roadmap
  • Background with building high availability and mission-critical systems
  • Experience with leading an engineering team
  • Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
  • Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders at all levels of a company
  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
  • 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 3+ years of post-grad software development experience
  • 1+ years of experience managing a team
  • Experience with distributed systems and web development
  • Preferred: Experience working on high-availability or real-time systems (e.g., messaging, payments, search, growth)
  • Preferred: Familiarity with service oriented architecture and service orchestration
  • Preferred: Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
  • Preferred: Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical, highly-available, high QPS global systems
  • Preferred: Experience with significant re-architecture or foundational platform projects in a fast-paced environment.