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ID #43622351
State New York
City New york city
Job type Permanent
Salary USD $180,000 - $215,000 180000 - 215000
Source AAJ Interactive Technologies
Showed 2022-06-25
Date 2022-06-20
Deadline 2022-08-19
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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Engineering Lead

New York, New york city, 10001 New york city USA

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Our Client Our client has an entirely new way to manage spend, giving you proactive controls and real-time visibility - without slowing down your employees. With their distributed spend management platform, you can manage all types of purchasing, made by anyone, from end-to-end. Employees love the effortless experience, and Finance teams can breathe easy knowing that all spending is pre-coded & pre-approved.

About the role As an Engineering Lead with our client, you will draw from your skills and experience to develop our software architecture as well as develop the team. You will be the backstop for your team s technical decisions, owning the whitespace in your project area. Your ability to quickly recognize bad patterns will help you strategize with your team on how to avoid them, making process improvements along the way. When presented with a problem, you ll quickly identify solutions and guide the team through prioritization in the planning process. You ll work across the leadership team at a scaling startup, collaborating on new initiatives and building on existing frameworks.

What you will do:
  • Take ownership of the team s technical roadmap, setting the unified roadmap with product managers for delivery
  • Manage and support risks the backend engineering team may encounter
  • Actively coach, train, and grow a team of engineers to deliver on product features while helping them improve their skill sets
  • Ensure the timely delivery of engineering initiatives
  • Work collaboratively with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to develop and deliver scalable and reliable products
  • Mitigate escalations on the software platform
  • Recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions

Common candidate qualifications include:
  • 5+ years experience in software application development
  • 1+ years experience mentoring, coaching and developing engineering talent
  • Experience building and running in production distributed large-scale backend systems
  • Must have worked cross-functionally with Product Managers and Design peers
  • Ability to provide honest, direct and actionable feedback to the team and follow up with relevant coaching and guidance
  • Experience with Python and Django required
  • Experience with React/Redux and Stylus preferred
  • Experience monitoring systems using DataDog, CloudWatch, Sentry, LogRocket or similar technologies
You will be an early engineering leader at a fast-growing company. You ll report to the VP of Engineering and have the opportunity to partner with leaders in the Engineering and Product teams. This opportunity will give you the opportunity to make a significant impact on a business with traction at the ground floor.

You'll love working with our client if You're a builder. You're passionate about crafting things that matter. You're curious and agile in thought and action. You value authenticity and possess a strong work ethic. You're empathetic and look forward to learning from people unlike yourself. You want to make an impact with a strong team. You look for challenges that force you to grow. You rarely miss a detail and always learn from your mistakes. You have diverse interests outside of work, but are ready to pitch in and be responsive when the pressure is on.

Benefits If you decide to work with our client, you ll get benefits and perks:
  • Healthcare premiums 100% covered for employees and 50% covered for dependents.
  • One Medical membership for all employees.
  • FSA or HSA programs available.
  • Pet Insurance for employee s pets.
  • Citibike membership for all employees.
  • 401k Program with employer match on contributions.
  • Annual Training and Development budget for all employees.
  • Access to an office space in lower Manhattan.
  • Yearly stipend for remote work setup.
  • Fun and educational events for all employees, offered both virtually and in-person.
This will be a Full Time Permanent Employee position although we are also open to candidates who would prefer contracting . The salary for this position can go up to $215,000/yr. plus bonus and an equity package. If this sounds like you, please respond with your Salary/Hourly rate requirements as soon as possible. This can be a 100% remote position, or someone local to the greater NYC area who would want to come into the office in lower Manhattan on a regular/hybrid basis. Please specify your preference when applying for this position. = AAJ Interactive Technologies, established in 1997 by cutting-edge technology executives, is a technology professional-services company supplying project-based consulting, staff augmentation and recruiting services to leading firms throughout Metropolitan Washington, DC area. We work differently from most of our competition. We have been in both a position of hiring, mentoring and managing large staffs inside a corporate culture, as well as consultants for hire. This unique perspective allows us to understand both sides of this business. We take the time to ensure our consultants/candidates placed will be successful. We believe that because of our principals we have succeeded where others have failed. The recruiting/technology space can be full of companies that are not really looking out for your interests - ask around we're not one of them! We want you to succeed, and we'll do everything we can to help you do just that!

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