Engineering Manager- Media Platforms from Catapult Staffing

Engineering Manager - Media Platforms

Engineering

Fully Remote

This is a full-time position for a remote engineering manager role.

About Our Client

Our client is a leading technology company that provides a platform for creators to publish content and gain insights into its performance. With a strong focus on innovation and growth, the company operates in the e-commerce and content creation industry, offering cutting-edge solutions to both creators and shoppers.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to manage a core-tech backend squad responsible for running our Media platform and near-real-time streaming and analytics systems. These systems are critical to the success of our platform, enabling creators to publish content and view insights about its performance effectively.

As the leader of one of our development teams, you will be responsible for conducting, leading, and coordinating software development activities throughout the product lifecycle. Additionally, you will manage the day-to-day activities of the development team within an Agile Development environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the team that builds and maintains our media and near-real-time event ingestion and analytics systems.
• Collaborate with various feature teams who are providing value to both creators and shoppers.
• Contribute to development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents, and functional specifications.
• Participate in the on-call rotation with your team.
• Partner with senior management to identify appropriate metrics to monitor team performance.
• Influence the technical vision for your department through discussions with peers and senior management.
• Take an active role in hiring, goal setting, performance management, promotions, and retention strategies across your team.
• Focus on growing leaders -- emphasizing all aspects of the employee lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and employee development).
• Work with leaders across the organization as a core-tech service owner to understand how your team's changes impact upstream and downstream services.
• Obtain buy-in and adoption across the organization for changes in the foundation of our platform that will drive our long-term business and technical strategy.
• Work with the team and stakeholders to break down and prioritize work to reduce technical debt.
• Identify and pursue improvements in engineering and organizational process, gathering and using data to support and guide continuous growth in product excellence and engineering productivity.

Required Experience/Skills

• At least 2+ years in leadership roles with a proven and consistent history of leading developers.
• Servant leader used to being hands-on and supporting your team, including participating in on-call rotation with your team.
• Proven experience in rapid, continuous releases, used to shipping multiple times a day.
• Proven success as a senior-level developer in a backend team.
• Able to drive productivity and motivate a team to full project completion.
• 10+ years with software backend systems, architectures, and infrastructure.
• 5+ years with data architecture, data processing tools, and reporting technologies.
• History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Proven experience designing scalable reporting data stores.
• Experience with Golang.
• Experience working in a Dockerized environment.
• Experience in building products and features in CI/CD environments.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Glue (among others).
• Experience with relational and time-series databases.
• Experience with eventing and data streaming by leveraging services like Amazon Event Bridge or Kafka.
• Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs (REST, OAuth).
• Experience designing extensible systems that are used as a platform or foundational service.

Nice-to-Haves

• Personal interest in the e-commerce or content creation industry.
• Experience with other cloud platforms beyond AWS.
• Experience with big data technologies and data lakes.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.