Who are we hiring?

The Manager Software Engineering is a key member of the Digital Technology Engineering team responsible for the architecture, development, troubleshooting, implementation, and enhancement of new and existing web applications and platform (microservices), as well as supporting frontend and backend technologies, including React, CSS, NodeJS, and Express. The Manager will work with engineers utilizing Amazon Web Services, serverless platforms and frameworks, and automation. In additional to software development, the Manager will contribute expertise to optimize our agile processes and product development, including assisting in requirements gathering and analysis. The Manager will focus on performance, stability, maintainability, functionality, and observability, which will often involve implementing or instrumenting both custom and third-party solutions.

What will you do?

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers.
• Build, architect, design, and implement highly distributed global cloud-based systems, and work in security, data, and application development.
• Utilize experience in structured Enterprise Architecture practices and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Utilize experience to build services in NodeJS with Express and/or serverless/microservice technologies such as Lambda, while providing RESTful APIs.
• Build UIs in React, Redux, CSS, HTML, and other technologies using Webpack with ESModules.
• Create and maintain conventions, standards, established design patterns, and best practices.
• Learn and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
• Actively participate in and contribute to all scrum ceremonies and take personal responsibility for the success of each sprint.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

What do you need to succeed?

• 8 years of hands-on development experience with JavaScript, with advanced understanding of design patterns and best practices.
• 5 years creating services and APIs in NodeJS with either Express or AWS serverless technologies like Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync.
• 5 years of experience building performant UIs with ReactJS and Redux.
• Proficiency with web app tooling technologies. We use Webpack, NPM, git/Github, Babel, Create React app, SCSS, PostCSS, as well as others.
• Previous experience leading project work and preferably managing other engineers.
• Ability to manage and mentor a team by supporting their prioritization of work deliverables and overall learning and career development.
• Expert knowledge of technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript using ES6-ES2020 language features, CSS3 and HTML5.
• Experience in working on Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL.
• Proficiency with any of these testing frameworks and libraries: Jest (or similar, like Karma or Jasmine), Mocha, Chai, Sinon, CucumberJS, Webdriver IO.
• Can effectively work with command line tools.
• Experience of ESLint configuration. We use JavaScript Standard Style and AirBnB.
• Experience working in a cloud-only environment, specifically in AWS.
• Experience contributing to the velocity of an Agile Scrum team.
• Some understanding of the basics of caching, including CDNs, in-memory caches, or page and database caching.
• Additional areas that are preferred but not required include:
• You’ve worked on consumer and/or enterprise applications used by millions of customers.
• Proficiency in PHP, Ruby on Rails, or Python.
• Experience working with a headless CMS or custom Content tooling.
• Knowledge of ElasticSearch and its APIs and JavaScript or PHP SDKs.
• Understanding of any of these caching technologies: CDNs (like CloudFront), in-memory caches (Redis, Memcached), page caches (like Varnish), or object caching
• GraphQL experience
• AWS or Agile Scrum certification.

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