rePurpose Global is the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, bringing together brands, consumers, innovators, and policymakers to collectively combat the plastic waste crisis and support impactful environmental and social action.
We are a series-funded social enterprise and are backed by some of the world’s best investors. We have enabled over 350+ leading brands to measure, reduce, and take action on their plastic footprints, while driving systems change on a global scale. Our efforts have led to the recovery of over 25 million kilograms of plastic waste from the environment to date, protecting vulnerable coastal regions across the world. In doing so, the organization has enabled the delivery of waste management services to millions of people for the first time, while positively impacting the lives of thousands of marginalized waste workers across the world.
We’re just getting started on our mission - the fight against plastic pollution is going to take everything we’ve got, and more. We are looking for entrepreneurial and passionate team members who thrive in a collaborative and purpose-driven environment. We invite you to join our 60+ member global team that is striving hard everyday to create a truly consequential company.
As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at rePurpose Global you will be responsible for managing and growing a team of 3 engineers while serving as an independent contributor as required. We’re looking for a player/coach who loves to build products while mentoring and growing a team of engineers. You will collaborate heavily with our product managers and other business leaders throughout the company to ensure alignment between our products and people.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of full-stack engineers: provide mentorship and career guidance, organize sprint plans, run performance reviews.
- Independent contributions: as a player/coach you will be expected to contribute code directly.
- Collaborate with product and design teams on roadmapping, refining requirements and estimation.
- Work closely with the Head of Engineering to refine our processes and technical architecture.
- Project manage the team’s work, ensuring adherence to deadlines and best practices.
- Excellent leadership skills, combining a low-ego approach, competitive spirit, and ability to motivate and empower others.
- A minimum of 7 years of total experience, with at least 2 years of managing direct reports.
- Experience working in a start-up environment with a fast pace and evolving needs.
- Experience with Typescript, Nodejs, Relational databases (we use Postgres but any similar experience works!), Modern frontend frameworks (we use Vue, but experience with React or Angular works too), Cloud infrastructure: we use AWS, but experience with GCP or Azure is acceptable, CI/CD
- Biased towards action - You are thoughtful in planning how to build technology but are not afraid to make decisions and do the work that is required to get results
Location Preference:
The role is hybrid working, we are looking for the team members to be located at our head office in Bangalore, with weekly in-office days. We have a truly global team - with members across Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, London, Nairobi, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, and Jakarta.
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What We Do
rePurpose Global is the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, bringing together brands, consumers, innovators, and policymakers to collectively combat the plastic waste crisis. Through its pioneering solutions across the circular economy value chain, rePurpose has helped more than 300 companies measure, reduce, and take action on their plastic footprints, while driving systems change on a global scale. rePurpose Impact Projects have recovered over 15 million kilograms of plastic waste from the environment to date, protecting vulnerable coastal regions across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In doing so, the organization has enabled the delivery of waste management services to millions of people for the first time, while positively impacting the lives of thousands of marginalized waste workers across the world. Founded in 2016, rePurpose Global now employs over 70 full-time team members across offices worldwide. For more information, please visit https://repurpose.global/. If you'd like to work with us, head on over to our Careers Page to look at the open positions and browse through their job descriptions: https://www.business.repurpose.global/careers
