About us: 

Wiser Solutions is a suite of in-store and eCommerce intelligence and execution tools. We're on a mission to enable brands, retailers, and retail channel partners to gather intelligence and automate actions to optimize pricing, marketing, and operations initiatives, both in-store and online. Our Commerce Execution Suite is available globally. 

Essential Functions:

When looking to buy a product, whether it is in a brick and mortar store or online, it can be hard enough to find one that not only has the characteristics you are looking for but is also at a price that you are willing to pay.  It can also be especially frustrating when you finally find one, but it is out of stock.  Likewise, brands and retailers can have a difficult time getting the visibility they need to ensure you have the most seamless experience as possible in selecting their product.  We at Wiser believe that shoppers should have this seamless experience, and we want to do that by providing the brands and retailers the visibility they need to make that belief a reality. 

Our goal is to solve a messy problem elegantly and cost effectively.  Our job is to collect, categorize, and analyze lots of structured and semi-structured data from lots of different places every day (whether it’s 20 million+ products from 500+ websites or data collected from over 300,000 brick and mortar stores across the country).  We help our customers be more competitive by discovering interesting patterns in this data they can use to their advantage, while being uniquely positioned to be able to do this across both online and instore. 

We are looking for a strong technical manager to lead the charge on a team of like-minded individuals.  As an Engineering Manager, you will not only be actively contributing to the development of the data architecture that powers our business, but also be responsible for shaping the careers of other data engineers.  If you have a passion for optimization, scaling, and integration challenges, this may be the role for you. 

This position can be based anywhere in the US or Mexico, with a preference for someone in the eastern or central time zone who can work with our teams in both the US and Europe. 

Responsibilities:

What You Will Do 

• Think like our customers – you will work with product and engineering leaders to define data solutions that support customers’ business practices. 

• Design/develop/extend our data pipeline services and architecture to implement your solutions – you will be collaborating on some of the most important and complex parts of our system that form the foundation for the business value our organization provides 

• Foster team growth – define the goals and expectations of your direct reports to help them become more well-rounded data engineers. 

• Improve the quality of our solutions – help to build enduring trust within our organization and amongst our customers by ensuring high quality standards of the data we manage 

• Own your work – you will take responsibility to shepherd your projects from idea through delivery into production 

• Bring new ideas to the table – some of our best innovations originate within the team 

• Focus on value – shipping software that matters to the company and the customer 

Supervisory Responsibility 

• Proactively set personal goals with and mentors direct reports 1:1 without prompting 

• Promote cross-training and elimination of skill silos on the team through formal and informal knowledge sharing 

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by suggesting ways for the team to improve execution 

• Proactively help team members meet commitments by identifying and eliminating blockers and slowdowns 

• Promote a workplace culture that builds camaraderie amongst team members 

• Promote a healthy team culture, motivating team to stretch and achieve, appropriately recognizing and rewarding team members for strong contributions 

• Organize and lead agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, planning, etc. 

• Delivers ongoing performance feedback and writes/delivers performance reviews 

• Proactively addresses performance issues on the team 

Skills and Qualifications: 

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant technical degree 

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience 

• Strong proficiency with data languages such as Python and SQL 

• Strong proficiency working with data processing technologies such as Spark and Airflow 

• Strong proficiency working of RDMS/NoSQL/Big Data solutions (Postgres, MongoDB, Redshift, etc.) 

• Strong proficiency leading teams using an Agile methodology 

• Solid understanding of streaming solutions such as Kafka, Kinesis/Firehose, etc. 

• Solid understanding of Docker and Kubernetes 

• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT and OLTP/OLAP concepts 

• Solid understanding of columnar/row-oriented data structures (e.g. Parquet, Avro, etc.) 

• Proven ability to transform raw unstructured/semi-structured data into structured data in accordance to business requirements 

• Solid understanding of AWS, Linux and infrastructure concepts 

• Proven ability to diagnose and address data abnormalities in systems 

• Proven ability to learn quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and adapt to changing business needs 

• Proven ability to manage direct reports and providing career guidance 

• Proven ability to create a team culture centered around effective collaboration, continuous improvement, and efficient execution 

• Understands Domain Driven Design concepts and accompanying Microservice Architecture 

• Passion for data, analytics, or machine learning 

Bonus Points 

• Experience working within a retail or ecommerce environment 

• Proficiency in other programming languages such as Scala, Java, Rust, etc. 

EEO Statement - Wiser Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.EEO is the Law. Click here to view your rights. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Available for the following locations:Remote| Nashville, TN | Louisville, KY

Hi, we’re TechnologyAdvice.

At TechnologyAdvice, we pride ourselves on helping B2B tech buyers manage the complexity and risk of the buying process. We are a trusted source of information for tech buyers, delivering advice and facilitating connections between our buyers and the world’s leading sellers of business technology. 

Established in 2006 out of our founder’s dorm room, we continue to expand our business. In 2021 we acquired TechRepublic, and in 2020, we acquired QuinStreet B2B, both leading resources for IT and business decision makers. These critical acquisitions included global teams of dynamic technology and media professionals to enhance our presences in the US, the UK, Singapore, and Australia. We now have more than 20 digital media brands and over 500 global team members, representing 12 languages.

Listed on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies four times and a five-time recipient of the annual Tennessee Top Workplaces awards, we take both our growth and employee engagement seriously. We work hard each day, but we know how to have fun, too, with monthly virtual events, recreational slack channels, and the occasional costumed dance from our CEO. 

The Opportunity…

Are you looking for a great career with a growing company where you can make an impact and be part of an exciting team? If combining your love for software engineering, passion for the web, and skill with technology sounds like an ideal job for you, you've found the right place! 

We are looking for a talented full-stack software engineer to join us in our mission to push our technology to its limits. We have an “always learning” culture driven to improve as both individuals and as a team. If you are interested in being challenged, learning full-stack development, exploring DevOps, then TechnologyAdvice may be the next step in your career. 

How You'll Contribute… 

We are a Scrum-based engineering team focused on web technologies that strives to deliver business value quickly. Our team culture values the ideas and contributions of all members. We trust each other to maintain a high degree of ownership in our work, and always see things through to completion. We also like to have a bit of fun. When you’re not creating or maintaining business-critical software systems, you might be in a technical book club, participating in a hack-a-thon, or sharing your favorite hobbies over Slack.

You will play a vital role in our business and on our team by utilizing your quality assurance skills to propel our business forward. You will be responsible for:

• Develops, implements, and manages processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery.
• Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products.
• Communicates quality standards and parameters to QA team, product development team, and other appropriate staff.
• Coordinates product testing processes.
• Participates in product testing.
• Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues.
• Reviews client, customer, and user feedback.

What You Bring…

• At least 3 years managing a QA team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with establishing a test suite ensuring quality for a consumer facing product
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills including establishing metrics and KPIs related to quality

Bonus Points…

• Experience with Cypress, Jira, Datadog
• Experience with managing offshore resources

Why You Want Us...

• Remote/hybrid/in-office work options
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Flexible PTO, take time off when you need it!
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• MacBook Pro or PC laptop, your choice
• Ongoing career development meetings
• Fitness reimbursement
• Subscription reimbursement to the Headspace App
• Live and remote fitness classes offered 5 days a week
• Bucket List Benefit: We financially help you check something off your bucket list
• Monthly team outings and quarterly volunteer opportunities
• Professional development opportunities and incentives
• Beer on Fridays! It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere… 
• Milestone celebrations for birthdays, weddings, work achievements, and more
• Coffee, snacks, ping pong, and catered lunches 4 days a week in office

Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change. 

We believe that our differences make us stronger and foster a diverse and inclusive culture where people feel safe being themselves. TechnologyAdvice is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.

Pre-employment screening required.

#LI-Remote

COVID-19 RESPONSE:
TechnologyAdvice is committed to the safety and wellness of each of our employees. In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we follow all CDC and local protocol.

Available for the following locations:Remote| Nashville, TN | Louisville, KY

Hi, we’re TechnologyAdvice.

At TechnologyAdvice, we pride ourselves on helping B2B tech buyers manage the complexity and risk of the buying process. We are a trusted source of information for tech buyers, delivering advice and facilitating connections between our buyers and the world’s leading sellers of business technology. 

Established in 2006 out of our founder’s dorm room, we continue to expand our business. In 2021 we acquired TechRepublic, and in 2020, we acquired QuinStreet B2B, both leading resources for IT and business decision makers. These critical acquisitions included global teams of dynamic technology and media professionals to enhance our presences in the US, the UK, Singapore, and Australia. We now have more than 20 digital media brands and over 500 global team members, representing 12 languages.

Listed on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies four times and a five-time recipient of the annual Tennessee Top Workplaces awards, we take both our growth and employee engagement seriously. We work hard each day, but we know how to have fun, too, with monthly virtual events, recreational slack channels, and the occasional costumed dance from our CEO.  

The Opportunity…

As Software Engineering Manager, you are a leader that is comfortable managing a team’s activities, coaching direct reports, and collaborating with internal business customers as we develop and enhance the software that powers our business. TechnologyAdvice is a fast paced company that is growing very quickly. There are enormous opportunities to create technology that will have a massive impact on the business. As a master of both technology and leading people, you will help define and execute on a path to success.

We believe technology is a differentiator and we consistently strive to find the best technologies to make that a reality. We utilize Amazon Web Services, the latest DevOps tooling, top software patterns and frameworks, and whatever else we need to deliver incredible results to our business customers.

The team that this position will lead is building applications that manage our data. They are written mostly in Python and utilize modern Python practices and frameworks. Data engineering is a core competency of TechnologyAdvice, and this role will work closely with other leaders in our operations and engineering departments to implement improvements to our data processing and APIs that enable our company to do awesome things.

How You'll Contribute…

• Lead a team of Engineers with a range of experience levels
• Lead from a position of knowledge and experience 
• Create and own processes in your areas of responsibility
• Provide incredible “Hero” level support to your business customers
• Manage multiple projects of various sizes simultaneously
• Ensure your team is fully equipped to do their best work
• Ensure your team maintains a healthy work/life balance

What You Bring…

• At least 2 years of management experience in a technical capacity
• At least 5 years of experience in a technology focused capacity
• Experience with Python
• Experience with MySQL and database optimization
• Experience with Amazon tooling (Redshift, EC2, RDS, SNS/SQS)
• Experience using Agile and/or Scrum methodologies to deliver projects
• Experience with a variety of Engineering tooling from data storage and processing to web applications
• General knowledge of business software (Google Suite, Excel, etc.)
• Driven self-starter that thrives in unpredictable situations
• Data driven to make decisions in the best interest of the company
• Ability to build processes and set standards for best practices
• Ability to quickly identify business problems and the changes need to fix them
• Eager to learn and quick to contribute

Bonus Points…

• Understanding of principles of data warehousing
• Understanding of principles of data science and machine learning
• Project Management experience
• Bachelors in a technology related field
• Experience with modern Python frameworks like Flask

Why You Want Us...

• Remote/hybrid/in-office work options
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Flexible PTO, take time off when you need it!
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• MacBook Pro or PC laptop, your choice
• Ongoing career development meetings
• Fitness reimbursement
• Subscription reimbursement to the Headspace App
• Live and remote fitness classes offered 5 days a week
• Bucket List Benefit: We financially help you check something off your bucket list
• Monthly team outings and quarterly volunteer opportunities
• Professional development opportunities and incentives
• Beer on Fridays! It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere… 
• Milestone celebrations for birthdays, weddings, work achievements, and more
• Coffee, snacks, ping pong, and catered lunches 4 days a week in office

Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change. 

We believe that our differences make us stronger and foster a diverse and inclusive culture where people feel safe being themselves. TechnologyAdvice is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.

Pre-employment screening required.

#LI-Remote

COVID-19 RESPONSE:
TechnologyAdvice is committed to the safety and wellness of each of our employees. In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we follow all CDC and local protocol.

Our client is a global leader in IoT (Internet of Things) technologies and is a forerunner in its space with over 5,000 employees and spans the globe.  Their technology platform impacts the lives of millions of teachers and students.

Located and headquarters in Georgia, the employer has a tremendous work/life balance culture and believe in investing in its employees future.

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead an international engineering team delivering on the product roadmap for key initiatives using the Scrum methodology
• Be a self-starter, passionate about learning and have a strong sense of ownership
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX and Leadership to deliver on critical product features
• Develop efficient engineering processes, ensuring the team is operating with high velocity while still delivering quality software
• Build an outstanding team by mentoring engineers, instilling a strong sense of ownership and applying your technical expertise to hold the team to high standards
• Guide the team in developing secure, robust and reliable systems

Requirements:

• CS or Engineering Degree with 8+ years of experience
• Previous leadership experience with leading teams
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies using Scrum or SAFe
• Experience in successfully delivering SaaS services to customers
• Experience with cloud-native development, AWS preferred
• Experience with architecture and software design patterns
• JavaScript frameworks such as React.js, Express
• Languages including TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Kotlin
• Test automation
• Android Applications
• Modern databases such as Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Redis
• Serverless computing (Lambda) and containerization (Docker)

The client is not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.  This is a remote/WFH opportunity.

**NO THIRD PARTIES**

About Snapsheet

Snapsheet is an industry-leading technology company building products that make insurance simple, for everyone.  We create platforms that drive efficiencies using data and technology to enable the easiest, fastest and most accurate claims processing in the industry.

What you will be working on

The Snapsheet Claim Engagement Platform is a software-as-a-service solution bringing modern technology and processes to claims organizations. As the Remote Engineering Manager of the Claim Engagement Platform Team, you will build out a system to bring the claims processing efficiencies that Snapsheet has developed to businesses around the world.

What you will do

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of high powered engineers
• Write code in a fast-paced, quality-driven environment
• Collaborate with other engineers, product management and design to identify and solve challenging problems
• Contribute to platform-level technology, architecture, strategy and decisions
• Coordinate, scope and execute on large initiatives
• Play an influential role in growing Snapsheet to be the industry leader in technology

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience building scalable, reliable and robust web applications
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Proven track record leading, coaching and mentoring individuals and teams
• Experience coordinating, scoping and executing on large initiatives
• Deep expertise in backend, frontend or full-stack development
  • Backend
    • Experience designing and building APIs
    • Experience designing schemas and performant queries for relational databases
    • Understanding of scalability challenges and performance of server-side code
  • Frontend
    • Experience building applications using React and Redux or a similar frontend framework
    • Knowledge of design patterns used for developing frontend applications
    • Experience developing web applications that work across multiple devices and screen sizes
    • Deep understanding of the web technology stack (HTTP, cookies, asset loading/caching, etc) and modern web technologies (ES6, HTML5, Progressive Web Apps, etc)

Technologies we use

• Infrastructure
  • MySQL, S3, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Lambda, Docker, CloudFront
• Frameworks
  • Rails, React

Perks

• Competitive Salary
• Open Hack Days every other Friday
• Health, Dental, Vision, 401K with 50% Matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Fresh Fruit, Cereal, and Coffee
• Friday Happy Hours
• Summer Picnic, Holiday Party, and More
• Sports Leagues
• Rooftop, Gym, and Events at the Chicago Office

Snapsheet is an equal opportunity employer. 

#BI-Remote

Snapsheet is an equal opportunity employer.

Salary: $110,000 - 150,000/year
This position is fully remote / work from home. Candidates must be local to Frederick, MD, for occasional meetings. 

We are a multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm founded more than five decades ago. We approach engineering challenges from a wider spectrum of angles than most, from land development to energy management. Our goal is to help communities and private sector clients alike navigate the ever-changing technological advancements available and learn how best to integrate “smart” solutions into the current landscape to make them a part of resilient and sustainable planning. Our combination of talent and experience generates unprecedented solutions for diverse and iconic projects around the globe.

Job Responsibilities

We are currently looking for a Project Manager with experience consistent but not limited to:

• Development of construction drawings, specifications and construction contract documents
• Project types will be diverse, Residential and Commercial, as well as Single and Multi-Family
• Projects will include Paving, Drainage, Grading, Water and Wastewater, and other related work;
• Participate in problem solving in a team environment, mentoring other lower level engineers
• Coordination with clients, and attending meetings as needed
• Representing the company in a positive and responsible manner
• Marketing, planning, scoping, management, and coordination of all technical and financial aspects of assigned projects.

Job Requirements

• Required education: Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Minimum years of work experience: 5
• PE required
• Computer skills required: AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, HydroCAD
• Strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to problem solve.

Sunday: Unbox a better lawn. We’re a venture-funded, Boulder-based startup that’s reinventing the lawn and garden space through a lens of e-commerce and technology. Our approachable, data-driven service and products help Americans in every state turn their yards into verdant, sustainable ecosystems, without all the toxic stuff. (Think Method Home meets StitchFix -- for Lawns!)

We are backed by a group of top-tier investors (includingSequoia,BOND,Forerunner, andTusk), and following our recent raise, we are looking for the right people to grow our core team. Together, we will redefine an industry by continuing to build cutting-edge products that help people and the environment. If you don’t want to take our word for it, check out thearticle on us in FastCompany!

As a company rooted in nature, we deeply understand the benefits of diversity. We work to build a culture that attracts talented people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to help us bring lawn care out of the dark ages. We are committed to building an inclusive, vibrant team that brings determination and passion to our work everyday. 

The Role:

Sunday is looking for a collaborative and motivatedFront End Engineering Managerto help grow our engineering team as we continue to optimize our technology to enable exceptional customer experiences. Reporting to the VP of Technology, you'll provide technical leadership while fostering a talented team of FE engineers in an agile, highly collaborative environment. Key to this role will be the ability to motivate team members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, and encourage improvement and innovation.

This is an opportunity to come in at the ground level of a fast-paced startup, directly impact the company’s trajectory, and be a key contributor to a team that’s changing an industry for the better.

You are a good fit for this role if you love creating software as much as you love building a team. Exposure to or experience in e-commerce or subscription-based services is a strong plus.

You’ll Make an Impact By:

• Collaborate with engineering, design and data to identify potential risks and formulate solutions alongside key stakeholders from across the business
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project team members 
• Implementing processes and systems to ensure code quality and integrity
• Writing unit/integration tests, contributing to engineering wiki, and documenting FE architecture and processes 
• Alongside engineering leadership, drive the end-to-end delivery of data products that fuel strategic business decisions while optimizing technical performance, reliability, and scalability
• Fostering technical growth within your team by encouraging collaboration and innovation

About You:

• Leadership Experience: You’re passionate about building a team -- some of your proudest moments involve 1:1s and championing the growth of others. Not only do you have the ability to mentor, coach, and sponsor your direct reports, you also know how to shift between these management modes. 
• Technical chops: 3+ years of experience building modern websites with JavaScript frameworks, with a strong preference for production React experience. Deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, modern browser APIs, and web performance best practices.
• Teamwork: You have collaborated with product managers, designers, and engineers in developing functional and technical requirements. You are well-versed at discussing trade-offs to ensure delivery and impact. You’re driven by curiosity instead of being right. 
• Strategic Experience: You are familiar with aligning teams and stakeholders to a strategy.  You define and take responsibility for outcomes. You communicate and influence at all levels within the organization -- you have the ability to manage up, down, and across teams.
• Communication: You can ensure that sophisticated ideas, thoughts, and vision are expressed simply and effectively through verbal and written communication. You take ownership of encouraging open and honest communication. 
• Business-minded: You are passionate about building businesses, not features. You not only own the user metrics but also own and optimize business performance metrics

Perks:

• Be a core member of a small, focused, innovative team
• Flexible remote/in-office work
• Autonomy to make critical decisions that will drive team success
• Health, Dental, Vision Benefits: covering employee premiums 100%; spouse/family 50% 
• Unlimited PTO 
• 401(k) 
• Location: Boulder, CO Named best place to live byU.S. Newsfor the past 2 years

Application Details

Startup jobs aren't for everyone. They’re often demanding, frantic, unstructured, and unpredictable. If you're still interested, tell us why! We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

As a company rooted in nature, we deeply understand the benefits of diversity. We work to build a culture that attracts a diverse mix of talented people to help us bring lawn care out of the dark ages. We are committed to building a diverse, vibrant team that brings determination and passion to our work everyday.

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) seeks a creative, compassionate Software Engineering Manager who wants to apply their love for technology to affect others' lives positively. The Software Engineering Manager leads the team of Software Engineers responsible for building software applications that connect people with the benefits they need most. The Software Engineering Manager oversees our Platforms team primarily focused on creating new software solutions for internal users and external clients. The Software Engineering Manager will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that directly align with the company's vision and strategy. While this is not a development role, the ideal candidate should have had hands-on experience developing software, can communicate new ideas, and has a passion for leading and mentoring motivated Engineers.

The Software Engineering Manager, Platforms, reports directly to the Director of Software Engineering. Our office is currently operating under a remote-working protocol, following governmental requirements and CDC guidelines due to COVID-19.

Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of Software Engineers in developing high-quality software using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, Angular JS, MySQL
• Supports the Platforms team with and participates in agile sprints, assists in removing impediments, participates in code reviews, and ensures the team has everything it needs to be successful
• Coaches the Platforms team members by setting their objectives and providing quarterly feedback to ensure that the team is meeting their goals
• Supports the career growth of the team by utilizing the career framework to assess where they are and help them chart a course on where they aspire to be
• Builds strong relationships within the other Software Engineering teams (Application Reliability Engineering (ARE)/Production Support/Maintenance and Quality Assurance (QA) teams) and with our Products team, which provides us with requirements for the software we build
• Manages the resource capacity of the team, ensuring all team members are fully allocated, forecasts out the work that needs to get done, and updates the capacity plan with the work they have completed
• Identifies and creates workflow and process improvements

Requirements:

• Experience with leading engineering projects and teams
• Knowledge of developing software applications such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, Angular JS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Twilio, or similar technologies
• Proficiency with JavaScript (front end) and Ruby on Rails (back-end) or other scripting languages
• Ability to communicate across a range of audiences, both technical and non-technical
• Experience in collaborative software development methodologies (Agile Scrum/Kanban, waterfall)
• Experience with JIRA and Git and the ability to engage in configuration and workflow discussions
• Ability to support automated testing frameworks
• Willingness to learn and adapt to emerging technologies

About BDT

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) harnesses the power of data, technology, and policy to provide efficient and dignified access to assistance, improving people's health and financial security. Together with a national network of government agencies and other partners, we streamline public benefits systems and directly connect eligible families and individuals to programs that help pay for food, healthcare, housing, and more. A nonprofit since 2005, BDT has secured more than $7.5 billion in benefits for households across the country, building pathways to economic mobility and a more equitable future. Learn more about BDT -- a proud recipient of a 2021 Top Workplaces USA Award -- at BDTrust.org.

About Sittercity

Sittercity, a Bright Horizons company, is a technology platform working to reimagine the child care industry. Finding, hiring and managing high-quality, trustworthy and enriching child care has never been simple, for parents or caregivers. We want to change that. At Sittercity, you can imagine and create solutions that will revolutionize a multi-billion industry and bring relief to parents and care providers alike, all while having a lot of fun! Boost your career as we launch into our next phase of growth and help build a platform that changes the way child care works.

What You’ll Do

Sittercity is hiring a Manager of Engineering to attract, develop and grow a high-performing engineering team. This Engineering Manager will be managing our platform squad(s). We are currently at one platform squad but will be growing to two squads. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team reinventing the online childcare industry.  Childcare is a $35B+ category and less than 1% is tech enabled. You will work collaboratively with product, marketing, analytics, Customer Success, and engineering teams to develop and deliver products that are scalable and reliable. This is an exciting opportunity to drive growth in the category by executing on our technical vision and product roadmap. We’re looking for a leader who is equally passionate about hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers as they are solving complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other teams to help plan and prioritize product and technical roadmaps. Lead the execution and delivery of the roadmaps by helping the team understand the larger context of their work, and by supporting your team members.
• Attract, develop and retain a high-performing team, offering ongoing feedback, professional growth opportunities, and overall career guidance.
• Champion communication and trust between cross-functional teams. 
• Drive technical and strategic vision of the team and help translate day-to-day issues into coherent and robust systems.
• Ensure the timely delivery of engineering initiatives while continually raising the performance and quality bar.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team that helps each other with a willingness to learn.
• Foster best practices in software engineering and agile processes

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software design, application development, and scalable architectures
• Experience building and maintaining applications in a 24/7 production environment
• Professional experience in object oriented application languages, RDMS, caching solutions, message/queuing protocols/systems, API design and development 
• Experience hiring, mentoring, coaching, and developing top engineering talent
• Successful track record of managing small agile development teams
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain complex technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Ability to provide honest, direct, and actionable feedback to the team and follow up with relevant coaching and guidance

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails and Go are nice to have.

Why you should join us

We offer an innovative and fun environment that rewards passionate and curious individuals. Due to COVID-19, this will start as a remote role with the potential to eventually rejoin our team in our Chicago office. Our office provides a bright and energized space for collaboration as well as many quiet areas for concentration. Additionally, you will receive the following benefits:

• Support for flexible and remote working environments
• Company events, social outings and volunteer opportunities
• Generous paid time off policy, including sick and holiday
• Industry leading parental leave
• Tuition assistance, college coach, and enhanced family support
• Great benefits package, including: health, dental, vision, disability, life, and 401(k) matching
• Sittercity membership, back up child/adult/elder care, and child care center discounts

Sittercity is committed to hiring a diverse workforce.  We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis as prohibited by federal, state or local law. Sittercity participates in E-Verify and background checks all employees.

Sittercity is thrilled to be recognized on @Hired’s 2021 List of Top Employers Winning Tech Talent! It’s been a tumultuous year but our commitment to prioritizing equity, efficiency, and transparency in the hiring process allowed us to continue to attract and hire amazing talent.