Manager Software Development
Overview
Frontdoor is a company that's obsessed with taking the hassle out of owning a home. With services powered by people and enabled by technology, it is the parent company of four home service plan brands: American Home Shield, HSA, Landmark and OneGuard, as well as ProConnect, an on-demand membership service for home repairs and maintenance, and Streem, a technology company that enables businesses to serve customers through an enhanced augmented reality, computer vision and machine learning platform. Frontdoor serves 2.2 million customers across the U.S. through a network of approximately 17,000 pre-qualified contractor firms that employ an estimated 60,000 technicians. The company's customizable home service plans help customers protect and maintain their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns of essential home systems and appliances. With 50 years of home services experience, the company responds to over four million service requests annually. For details, visit frontdoorhome.com.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Streem product managers, designers, and engineers to define the product and infrastructure roadmap. Chart a course for how engineering will execute on that roadmap.
- Drive hiring and recruiting for our fast-growing engineering team, all while keeping the team engaged and high-performing as we add new people of varying backgrounds and experience.
- Foster an atmosphere of communication, collaborative problem solving, encouragement, learning, and sharing.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to all the talented engineers on your team, holding regular one on one meetings, and helping each team member grow their skills and experience.
- Use Agile methodologies to prioritize, plan, and track project progress, while taking the time to reflect and continuously improve.
- Create infrastructure and processes to best enable your team to succeed.
- Own all aspects of team execution ensuring features are delivered on time with high quality, security, and performance.
- Stay close to the code, conducting code reviews, making technical contributions to the product architecture, troubleshooting, and solving bugs
Qualifications
Great engineering managers (and great leaders in general) can come in many different forms. Consider this a list of guidelines, because if you can contribute to making our team effective, satisfied, and successful, we want to meet you regardless. Here are some qualities we imagine you possess:
- You are a strong communicator with problem-solving skills.
- You are an empathetic mentor and leader.
- You help your team to continuously improve and be more and more effective all the time.
- You understand the importance of servant leadership and empowering the people around you.
- You understand, can discuss, and regularly practice modern management philosophies.
- You understand and are able to discuss the tradeoffs of various software architectures and patterns.
- You come from an engineering background. You are an effective leader of engineers because you have done the job of those you are leading.
- You have many years of experience working in a technology stack that includes REST-based service-oriented architectures, front end libraries, infrastructure as code, databases, AWS, build systems, and tooling.
Other/State Specific
Additional Frontdoor Total Rewards Information: We are passionate about empowering our people, and are creating an environment where associates are engaged and excited to be part of taking the hassle out of home ownership. Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.
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ID 2022-2790
Category Engineering
Type Full Time
Company STM Streem, LLC