Engineering Manager - Remote

Overview

Spark is looking to bring on an engineering manager to lead the engineers and technical development within the broker productivity squad. In doing so, you’ll work to ensure our technical platform continues to meet the needs of our rapidly growing customer base and maintain our industry-leading web based broker platform in a sustainable way.

In Short

• Build and guide the development of new product features to enable a frictionless broker experience
• Architect and design elegant technical solutions with a focus on impact
• Review code and specs and guide the technical direction of the team
• Support the development and prioritization of our tech infrastructure roadmap
• Provide mentorship and career coaching to direct reports
• Balance hands-on work with higher level technical guidance
• Coordinate with product to drive planning, prioritization, and execution of the Broker Productivity roadmap
• Sequence and scope projects to align with business goals
• Manage team processes and productivity to ensure alignment and timely delivery of project

Requirements

• 5-8+ years in full stack software engineering in a startup environment
• Strong technical foundation in developing software with Python and Django or similar
• Experience architecting and owning production systems and complex frameworks
• Experience using javascript frameworks such as Vue or React
• 1+ years in leading engineering teams in a management capacity
• Player/coach leadership style, balancing hands-on work with team management
• Experience hiring, growing and managing software engineers
• Ability to collaborate directly with product, design, data and cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to understand complex business problems and scope and develop elegant technical solutions
• Strong project management, planning and prioritization skills with a focus on delivery
• Strong communication skills

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Health care, including dental and vision
• Flexible work location; co-working available
• 401k
• Paid Time Off
• Monthly Remote Work Stipend
• Paid Parental Leave
• 11 paid holidays
• 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
• Wellbeing Perks