Senior Manager of Engineering

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Lever was founded ten years ago to tackle the most strategic challenge that companies face: how to recruit and hire top talent. We’re building the next generation of hiring software that companies like Netflix, Yelp, Cirque du Soleil, Shopify, and Spotify rely on to grow their teams. We've rethought the talent acquisition paradigm and are the innovation leaders in our space and looking for the right people to join us as we scale. We’re extraordinarily proud of the company we’ve built so far (not to mention humbled to be recognized as the #1 place to work in San Francisco, as well as a top workplace in the entire United States). Our people are Lever’s biggest competitive advantage and we’ll continue investing in our “Leveroos” and people-first culture.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior Manager on the Platform team, you will be both a highly technical and effective people manager. Your team will be responsible for maintaining critical platform APIs such as user management, authentication, credit origination, external and internal APIs, payment and disbursement gateways, etc. Your team also designs and implements microservices, and orchestrates how these microservices work together to deliver lending services through our platform to customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:
• Develop and refine objectives and key results for the team
• Manage expectations about delivery of engineering projects
• Help design solutions that meet product requirements efficiently and effectively
• Assign engineering resources to projects based on skillset, capability, and interest
• Track progress and/or work with a TPM to manage engineering projects at the story & task level
• Help plan improvements to the development process
• Work alongside engineers to help unblock them and improve their designs & code
• Work with recruiters to bring in top talent
• Provide and encourage opportunities for growth for the engineers
• Manage performance, and deal with at-risk staff
• Model company values and coach engineers on living them

REQUIREMENTS:
• Have led a team of 4-8 engineers, and have 2+ years of software engineering management experience
• Can provide strong technical vision for your team and ensure consistent delivery on objectives
• Have experience formulating a team's technical strategy and roadmap; you've collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams to execute on shared goals
• Have 5+ years hands on experience building cloud software platforms, especially those that use microservice architectures
• Have experience building products, and have successfully taken significant enhancements and features from inception to production
• Are a strong proponent of Agile software methodologies, such as Scrum, and engineering principles such as Test Driven Development
• Understand how to balance tactical needs with strategic growth and quality-based initiatives that can span multiple quarters

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You should be a clear and concise communicator, with an ability to communicate ideas to a wide range of stakeholders both technical and non-technical. You appreciate hearing different points of view and wait to hear other’s point of view before offering your own. You have a pragmatic approach to building systems, see multiple ways of solving problems, and are able to discuss the tradeoffs of each solution. You are technology agnostic with broad depth and breadth of experience using many different technologies.
Ideally you have traveled extensively or have lived in a developing country. You are empathetic, self-aware and respect all cultures. You are fun and enlightening to work with, and you have a good work/life balance with hobbies and interests you are happy to share with others.

HOW WE INTERVIEW AND HIRE

Our interview process begins with an introductory call to help you better understand the opportunity, give us a glimpse into your interests and motivations, and help you decide if Migo is the right place for you to be your happiest and most successful self. From there, we will conduct a technical screen with one of our engineers to assess your technical depth. If all goes well, you will be invited onsite to interview with an interview panel from our platform engineering team. Our onsite interview includes 3-4 technical rounds, as well as conversations around what it is like to work at Migo and how you would work with the team on a daily basis. It is designed to assess a broad range of skills so that we can gain a holistic understanding of what you bring to the team and where you shine. We pride ourselves on being transparent throughout the entire interview process with conversations around compensation and the impact you will make here at Migo.

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT MIGO?

When you come to work at Migo, you can be assured that your work will be deeply meaningful. You will spend your days solving challenging problems alongside smart and capable colleagues. Daily decisions here have tangible and immediate impact on millions of people. You will be given both the respect and the latitude to drive best-practices for building world-class systems. You will be fully supported by executive management, many of whom have engineering backgrounds and will share your concerns if you say we are accumulating too much technical debt.
One day you will look back and realize that you did some of the best work of your career here. You will have significantly increased your positive impact on the world during your career here. Migo is growing quickly and operating in a trillion-dollar market with few competitors. Your equity has a high chance of producing significant upside.

OUR TECH STACK
Our technology stack consists of modern tools; we are open to technologies and pick the right tool for the job:

-Java/Scala/Python for micro-services and APIs
-React / React Native for UI development
-Swagger(OpenAPI) for API documentation
-Docker and Kubernetes to package and run services
-AWS for cloud infrastructure
-On-premise servers for data processing and extraction at our partners
-Kafka for queueing
-Ansible for cloud configuration

THE LEVER STORY
Lever builds modern recruiting software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. We participated in Y Combinator in summer 2012, and since then have reached our Series D, raising more than $120 million. As the applicant tracking system of choice for Netflix, Atlassian, KPMG, and McGraw-Hill Education, and thousands more leading companies, Lever means you hire the best by hiring together.

Lever is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out! We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Learn more about our team culture and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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