Engineering Manager

Overview:

Now is the time to join us! 

Who are you?

The Engineering Manager is an experienced leader with demonstrable people skills, technical knowledge, and passion for delivering world-class software. As an engineering manager, you’re responsible for growing and inspiring engineering teams to contribute outstanding quality work. You will lead a group of cross-functional engineers to work closely with product owners, designers, and other engineering teams to ensure the overall business vision aligns with the development work. The ideal candidate comes from a background of having been a talented and self-motivated engineer with management experience and a track record of shipping code to production in rapid iterations in a high volume, high availability SaaS company. A passion for employee engagement and wellness industry is a must-have since Virgin Pulse's motto of changing lives for the better is what motivates us every day.

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:  

• Run a team that maintains and extends our very large platform including web and mobile applications, API services, and myriad back-end services such as data ingestion for activity tracking devices.
• Work closely with product managers and your team to prioritize stories, get them estimated, scheduled for sprints, and keep them on track for delivery.
• Manage developers and QA engineers who report to you directly, meeting with them regularly to ensure they are meeting their goals and happy with their career growth.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the engineering management group to brainstorm future strategies and plan resource needs.
• Work with developers and QA to get everything tested and merged for a release. Review code and help QA with testing when needed.
• Collaborate with team to improve operational efficiency and develop vision that leads long term success of engineering teams. 
• Ensure delivery on excellent platform up-time guarantees and act as higher-level escalation contact for the platform. 
• Cultivate a high performing engineering team culture to meet and exceed key success metrics, which include a people success metric. 
• Provide communication to product owners with scope estimates and high-level milestones for evaluations of upcoming projects and work closely with scrum team in an angile environment.  
• Provide architectural vision and technical coaching to tech leads and engineers for high-quality delivery of products.  
• Work with other engineering teams to plan upcoming projects, coordinate with operation, support, and infrastructure teams to make sure delivery of new project goes out smoothly.
  • When you are not managing, you are strategizing, providing strategic direction to the team, removing roadblocks, reviewing metrics and data analysis, or building analytics dashboards.
  • Attend weekly Engineering Management team stand-ups and sync-up on larger Engineering initiatives.
  • Own and control your team roster, resources and deliverable's

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

What you bring to the Personify Health team:

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• Project management tools (Smartsheet, Gliffy, Basecamp, Trello)
• Scrum tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Communicating with remote individuals and offices
• Extensive experience working in a team environment, ideally distributed
• Logical working style with a keen attention to detail

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

• You have outstanding problem solving and analytical skills.
• You are an amazing communicator (written and verbal) and comfortable discussing software and features.
• Your ability to contribute to a planning or scheduling discussion mirrors your ability to listen and learn from your peers.
• You have outstanding problem solving and analytical skills.
• You are familiar with project management & Scrum tools.
• You are an amazing communicator (written and verbal) and comfortable discussing software and features.
• You are comfortable communicating with remote individuals and offices and working in a team environment.
• You have a logical working style with keen attention to detail.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Personify Health is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice.

In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges from $110,000 to $145,000 annually. Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for 10% target bonus/variable compensation as well as health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.

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