We are looking for an associate engineering manager with extensive experience building and managing large ecommerce websites. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of developing and leading high performing teams. This position requires strong technical and organizational skills, and a passion for keeping oneself and the team up to date with technological advancements. The person must have hands-on experience designing and developing in an agile development environment, possessing expert knowledge of multi-tier applications, and highly scalable hosting environments (including AWS, on-prem and private data centers). The successful candidate will lead and grow multiple development teams, and serve as a technology leader both within the Web App Development teams, and more broadly across Monotype.
What you will be doing:
Manage a team of software engineers, and lead the technical planning, execution and operations.
Responsible for the technology efforts of a portfolio of technology products, including website development and system integration.
Work closely with the web marketing and UX/UI teams to create the desired customer experience.
Functional responsibility of project resources including support of development and competency management.
Serve as a focal point to communicate with the engineering team and stakeholders including the business team.
Ensure decisions and discussions lead to closure, and escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team.
Responsible for the quality and timely releases of business requirements.
Coach and help develop team members, assure that team members have the necessary education and training to effectively participate in the team.
Facilitate problem solving and collaboration.
What we are looking for:
Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
A minimum of 8 years of web development experience on high-traffic customer-facing web products
A minimum of 3 years experience in managing multiple product development teams with varied delivery cycles without supervision.
A minimum of 3 years in designing and managing high volume live products
Exposure to various web technology stacks like Microsoft, LAMP, MEAN etc.
Experienced in designing and defining database schema for microservices, single-page applications, and REST APIs, utilizing both RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
Experienced in iterative sprint cycle, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Demonstrated strong technical leadership with the ability to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic environment.
Proven ability to work with external partners and manage external vendors.
Up to date in upcoming technologies and technology stack including new trends.
Experience in working in an Agile development environment.
Experience with Amazon AWS services, containerization, API Gateway etc.
Experience with GIT, bitbucket, Github, Github Copilot and the Features branching workflow.
Awesome written and oral communication skills and ability to work in a global and distributed environment with agility to mold communication for different audiences.