About Groove

Groove is the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce. Built for relationship-based sellers, Groove increases rep productivity, drives Salesforce adoption, and delivers revenue intelligence. Over 70,000 people use Groove at companies including Google, BBVA, Atlassian, Uber, and Capital One. Learn more: https://groove.co.

About the Role

Are you a SaaS, Web Services, and Enterprise Application Development expert? Are you passionate about Software Engineering best practices, highly efficient infrastructure, and application performance engineering? Do you want to build, best-in-class, service oriented, multi-tenant SaaS solutions as part of a growing and collaborative engineering team?

The hands-on Development Manager will be responsible for leading high-performance teams with a focus on quality and speed. You must have a proven track record of success building, leading, and managing a technical team with a strong sense of quality ownership and feature advocacy. This job requires strategic thinking and planning to provide leadership, vision and expertise throughout the entire development lifecycle. You will work with a team of demanding, highly motivated software engineers and will be expected to both challenge and be challenged. In order to effectively manage this team, you will have superior leadership skills, a solid background using object oriented methodologies, exposure/expertise in Agile development methodology, and the ability to operate within short release cycles and a fast-paced SaaS environment. You will report the VP of Engineering and work closely with Product, Quality, and Operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on design, coding, and testing of new features, balancing with team and project management responsibilities
• Manage multi-shore and multi-disciplinary engineering teams in the US and offshore locations
• Recruit, mentor, coach, and make effective world class engineering teams on and off shore
• Daily management of objectives, priorities, trade-offs, risk and performance management of all reporting staff.
• Provide technical leadership, technology vision, career development, and mentoring to team members
• Assign areas of ownership, ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources
• Maintain high morale and motivate engineers to go above and beyond
• Participate in architecture discussions and planning with Product Management and Quality Engineering
• Communicate status, risks to test complete dates, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross functional teams
• Analyze requirements to develop and execute consistent procedures, automation of builds, continuous integration, upgrading source code management practices and structuring source tree for efficiency and stability
• Mutual commitment with Product Lead to value and scope of sprints, releases, and broader roadmap
• Document and maintain documentation of the release process. Provide assistance to developers for code maintenance (branching & merging, CRE questions)

Requirements - People and Project Management Skills

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, impeccable organizational and time management skills
• Ability to lead and mentor heterogeneous engineering teams in complex projects
• Incredible work ethic that thrives in fast paced, dynamic work environment
• Ability to multitask between projects with minimal loss in productivity
• Proven ability and desire to deliver projects on time, on quality
• Able to cope with and thrive in uncertain and changing project requirements
• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
• Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications and can prioritize on the fly.
• Experience in short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and have worked on a product that was actually released for public consumption

Requirements - Technology Skills

• Excellent Ruby on Rails, Java/J2EE, and/or JavaScript engineering skills
• Excellent OR mapping and RDBMS engineering skills on MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer, and/or Oracle to include high proficiency with SQL, DDL, stored procedures, and schema design
• Excellent UI development skills using JavaScript and ReactJS/Redux
• Fluency in web services / API standards, technologies and tools (e.g. XML, SOAP/REST, GraphQL, etc.), experienced in architecting enterprise-class web services and API
• Must possess theoretical and proven practical mastery of programming and design patterns, beyond the normal MVC etc.
• Familiar with Salesforce platform / APEX development
• Familiar with Chrome Extension development
• Demonstrated self-motivation and a personal track record of life-long learning

Experience

• Must have 2+ years of Development Manager or Senior Development Manager level experience managing complex enterprise applications development
• 6+ years of professional software development experience with heavy use of all important Ruby on Rails, Java/J2EE or C#/.Net or equivalent web application frameworks
• 5+ years management experience with onshore and offshore engineers
• 3+ years of professional release management experience that leveraged source control systems and automated build tools
• 2+ years of professional performance engineering experience with large scale application performance tuning and benchmarking of millions of daily transactions and terabyte databases
• Experience in managing complex projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies
• 3+ years of professional web application development experience that required heavy use of related commercial or open source web application frameworks
• 3+ years of professional RDBMS development experience that leveraged complex SQL, DML, DDL, and well-designed schemas. Directly PostgreSQL experience is a plus
• Experience with NoSQL data management and analysis technologies such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Pig, Hive, Redis, MemcacheD, Redshift, etc. is a plus
• Salesforce Development experience (Apex, LWC, Visualforce, SOQL) is a plus
• Chrome Extensions Development experience is a plus

Education

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related fields and/or equivalent work experience

Benefits and Perks

Stock options

401k match

Flexible PTO

Medical/dental/vision insurance, with employee premiums covered at 99%!

Company-paid life insurance

Remote office set up options and locations in San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle

10 Paid holidays

Professional development stipend

Company-wide team-building retreats & virtual events

Fun, collaborative, and balanced culture

Our Culture and Core Values

Our values speak volumes about who we are, both as individuals and as a team. At Groove, we put our team before ourselves and are dedicated to ensuring that our teammates are happy and satisfied, both in their careers and their work environment. We are a team of high-performers that operate in a culture of empathy and transparency, with a natural curiosity to continually grow. We put the team before ourselves, care more, and enjoy the journey above all else. These are only a few of the reasons that we have a five-star rating on Glassdoor. 

Equal Opportunity Employer

Groove is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We offer highly competitive compensation packages and excellent benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible PTO, and a matching 401K.

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