Job Description
Job Title: Engineering Manager, New Venture
Location: Denver, CO
Direct Hire
Positions: 1
Max Salary: $ $91,200-$153,210
Overview:
Our vision is to make the company the industry-leading provider of platforms and services for companies to build and run financial applications. The innovation & incubation team has finished incubating a product aimed to help merchants reduce e-commerce consumer drop-offs and is looking to hire an all-star team that can scale the business under the innovation organization. Joining this team will put you at the forefront of fintech innovation. You will be able to scale a first in class product leveraging company assets and capabilities and drive significant value back to the business. Most importantly, your work will shape the future financial services landscape. Our team is made up of builders and you should be no exception!
Responsibilities:
- Make sure all squad team members understand the project’s goals and scope
- Tight collaboration between Product and Scrum leads on the squads
- Cross squad collaboration and knowledge transfer
- Focused on ensuring squads operate as autonomous full-stack teams
- Drive the development of a loosely coupled microservice architecture
- Work with the Head of Engineering on setting KPIs and managing alignment with them
- Continuous improvement in our CI/CD capabilities
- Focus on ensuring consistency in the quality of our platform releases
- A champion of team and organization culture
- Ensure overall quality of deliverables: test coverage, code reviews, etc.
- Coach and mentor autonomous full stack development squads
- Passionate when it comes to removing blockers to drive forward progress
- Constant focus on process improvement
- Keep the project stakeholders up to date on squad progress and overall team dynamics
- Understanding key metrics and analysis to identify areas of improvement for teams – data backed decision making
- Ability to delegate projects to qualified subordinates as appropriate
- Ability to lead, direct and manage effectively
- Ability to operate independently
- Ability to exhibit solid decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Working with the team to break up work into the smallest deliverables
Qualifications:
- Prior 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with at least 2 years of engineering management experience
- An empathetic leader with a passion for operational efficiency
- Prior experience working on the design, implementation, and delivery of high transaction volume with low latency enterprise solutions
- Strong communication skills – mediation and negotiation skills
Bonus Qualifications:
- Prior working experience in start-up environment or corporate innovation team
- Fintech experience
- Entrepreneurial track record: we want builders!
