Engineering Manager

Amaze is the parent company to several organizations. www.amaze.co, www.spri.ng and a growing retail services business that requires a team of “experts” to help creators become the next “great brand.”

Amaze provides creator success solutions, including a merchandising platform, advanced commerce design application, and scalable managed services to help anyone sell anything, anywhere. We believe anyone can be a creator and that everyone should be empowered to tell their unique story, cultivate deeper connections with their customers, and create authentic, shoppable experiences that allow them to monetize their passion. We’re on a mission to unleash potential and make it easy to create, share, and sell products and services.

As an Engineering Manager you will coach, mentor and grow an engineering team that is focused on delivering high quality code, designing and implementing sustainable architecture, and supporting a culture of engineering excellence.

At Amaze we strive to “lead by example”, and you will be pivotal as a role model and instigator of best engineering practices, scalable design, and rigorous standards. This role requires you to be hands-on and in the code. You will have strong experience in helping to shepherd ideas from concept through completion, ensuring engineering concerns are communicated, that the health and scalability of the codebase is prioritized, while contributing to a culture of collaboration, positive feedback, and continual learning.

What You'll Do

• Coach, hire and grow engineering teams and team leads, scaling the team and work to meet business needs.
• Work with the Technical Architecture Group to advise, align, and streamline key decisions for shared technology in partnership with Engineering and Product management
• Communicate the engineering vision as agreed with the Architecture Group to the teams you lead.
• Ensure that coding best practices, design patterns, and implementation decisions made by the ICs adhere to the body of standards of the Engineering org
• Collaborate with the Product and Project Management, the other Engineering Managers and your team leads to understand and contribute to the quarterly roadmap
• Advocate for the needs of your teams, and ensure the engineering voice is heard as a first-class citizen in important strategic meetings across the business
• Be responsible for the highest standards of quality and reliability in your teams, promoting test driven development, and good testing practices
• Contribute to and review technical design documents, proactively seeking and offering peer review to ensure your teams are prioritizing system design and building thoughtfully architected code
• Seek to understand the problem that needs to be solved from multiple perspectives, and consider the pros and cons of alternative solutions and different approaches. You make sure to understand the why of a task, and that your teams are solving the right problem in the right way
• Collaborate with other engineers on overall improvements to our dev loop, documentation and build tools
• Be clear, proactive and constructive in giving feedback and facilitating a culture of peer review

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience in technical people leadership and mentorship of junior and senior engineers.
• Experience working in diverse teams with varieties of professional backgrounds
• Commercial experience developing complex web applications
• Software Engineering or Computer Science (or related) education preferred
• Has experience championing agile processes
• Has experience working with other engineers in rigorous software development review practices
• Has written and reviewed design documents, and can champion and drive scalable and maintainable code practices
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, to bring clarity and focus to the team and others
• Collaborative working style and the good written and verbal communication skills
• Strong system design skills. Has experience designing commercial cloud applications at scale.
• Experience across the entire software development lifecycle and stack, including infrastructure, frontend and backend.
• Language agnostic - has experience with a variety of languages and technologies. Our code is currently mostly Typescript/Javascript with a Node.js backend.
• 3 - 5 years of professional development experience using modern languages such as Python and NodeJS
• Experience with React, NextJS, GraphQL or Netlify are a plus
• 2 - 4 years of experience leading engineering teams with a track record of successful delivery
• Can work collaboratively across functional teams to understand the challenges of the business and communicate the bigger picture to an engineering team
• Has strong people skills and can successfully mentor, motivate, and inspire an engineering team
• Familiarity with distributed and highly available systems at scale. Experience designing and developing APIs.
• You are comfortable working with senior stakeholders (Director level and up), both technical and non technical.
• Is willing to advocate for their teams, work to build an inclusive and diverse culture and be willing to suggest solutions to problems that our engineers face in their day to day work
• Experience hiring and mentoring engineering talent

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company Stock/Option Plan
• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• Competitive HealthPlan and Company Benefits and Perks.

Remote applicants will require occasional travel to California, once it is safe to do so.