The Engineering Manager will:

• Constantly improve team productivity, refine agile processes, and create methods to increase efficiency
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of two engineering teams (8 direct reports)
• Lead the effort of recruiting new outstanding engineers
• Train new software engineers on our best practices, standards, culture, and policies
• Perform personnel management tasks for two teams of developers, including performance reviews, mentoring, and planning each direct report's career growth
• Actively participate in system architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of the Happy Returns system
• Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews
• Actively participate in bi-weekly engineering lunch & learns to promote continuous growth and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to meet and exceed customer needs in the simplest possible ways
• Help us build and maintain a world class technology system so we can achieve our mission of making returns beautiful for Shoppers, Retailers, and the Planet

We are looking for someone who has:

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• A minimum of 2 years of experience successfully managing engineering teams to deliver world class software, preferably at a rapidly scaling startup
• Over 6 years of experience developing and testing web applications
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure engineers are exceeding the needs of the business
• The ability to coach engineers into shipping high quality, maintainable, and well tested code in a high velocity environment
• A strong interest in joining a highly collaborative environment and working daily with Developers, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, and QA Engineers

Bonus points if you have:

• Expertise in multiple server-side languages such as Go or Python
• Proficiency in one or more modern JavaScript frameworks such as React
• Familiarity with database technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Strong interest in e-commerce, logistics, and/or sustainability