Engineering Manager - Digital Innovation

Renaissance Partners is a NYC based recruiting firm and trusted adviser to leading companies in the financial services, technology, retail and healthcare industries.

As a member of the Digital Innovation team, you’ll work with a group that’s passionate about technology and about modernizing the payments landscape.  Our client leverages technology in completely new ways to construct fully automated financial platforms that live in the cloud and take advantage of the latest machine learning, mobile, IoT and advanced capabilities. 

As an Engineering Manager, your responsibilities will include:

Leading people and teams by supporting their development, managing various innovation initiatives and providing technical direction across a diverse team of 10-15 product engineers, technical analysts and automation engineers.  You’ll need the ability to dive deep, and have a “hands on” approach to the team and the underlying technology stack.  You’ll also need to have familiarity with open technologies and modern architectural approaches.  You’ll lead in an agile environment typically focusing 20-30% of your time building a positive, energetic culture to keep momentum moving in a positive direction.

Who you are:
You’re someone who wants to influence your own development.  You’re not intimidated by technology, you know how to leverage it and partner with technical experts to build great products.  You know what to do to make things happen.  Your skills are broad – business, technology, user experience, leadership – and you easily transition between those regularly.  You like to leverage modern tools, and a simple but organized process to keep the teams and stakeholders on track and in-line with organizational business and technical objectives.  You’re also comfortable in a role where you transition seamlessly between managerial activities and low level technical details, at times dropping into code to help the team meet its objectives while also keeping your skillset sharp.  You also have:  

• Strong experience in software engineering and architectural patterns – especially front-end technologies like Javascript, react.js/native, Yarn, node.js, PWA and many.
• Full stack experience including Java, Docker, REST/JSON, RDBMS and open source.
• Experience working on user-oriented large-scale, high volume applications
• Rapid personal pace with ability to deliver and drive results
• Deep understanding of software quality and what it takes to construct resilient and impactful solutions
• Strong mentoring capability and communication – both verbal and written
• Ability to recruit people, screen candidates and be selective
• Active involvement in setting technical and product strategy
• Passion to build strong, self-sustaining engineering teams
• Energetic, open and collaborative across all teams and roles
• Ability to practice servant leadership which is key to our success and culture

To apply, you’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information technology or business information systems or related field
• Extensive UI software delivery experience (10 years or more) across multiple disciplines – hands-on development with full-stack, Devops and project management.
• 5 or more years of experience in a technology focused managerial role with very clear leadership attributes – ability to set direction, grow team members, set goals, prioritize and recruit talent, among others.
• Heavy exposure and implementation experience in modern UI technology, architecture and automation patterns.
• Fluent, open communication style – speaking, writing, collaborating

This is a full-time position.