Engineering Manager

Perpay - Career's Page•Philadelphia, PA

157d•Onsite

About The Position

We are searching for an experienced Engineering Manager to join Perpay and lead one of our Product Engineering teams. You will support and mentor a team of Engineers while delivering large-scale projects from start-to-finish, and given our people-first approach, your elevated level of contribution will strengthen our culture of inclusion, mentorship, and continuous learning. As a leader of Perpay’s Engineering team, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders ranging from entry-level contributors to senior-level executives. The ideal candidate has a bias toward action, and ownership of moving the business forward. This is a unique opportunity as it offers the chance to provide leadership to our rapidly growing team during a significant moment in our history. Reports to the Director of Engineering. Our tech stack: Javascript, React, Redux, Python, Django, Flask, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and more Our greatest strength is our people and we’d love for you to be one of them!

Requirements

5+ years of experience building applications at scale in at least one popular programming language / framework (Python, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, etc.)
2+ years of experience directly managing and supporting engineers
Experience working on consumer-facing products and demonstrating empathy for end-users
Strong technical background, with experience in software engineering, architecture, and design – with a record of supporting growing your team technically
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain highly technical subject matter to a non-technical audience
Proven history of high empathy and experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, finding compromises when necessary – our friends in Product, Design, Marketing, etc are very close partners, and we all build as one team.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment, with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement
Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality products and driving results
Strong proficiency in at least one backend application framework such as Django or Flask and experience with frontend technologies such as React, Angular, or Vue.js

Nice To Haves

Experience working with cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred

Responsibilities

Lead and support a team of 4-6 Engineers through executing on projects, growing careers, and encouraging an environment to do our best work
Directly contribute through writing tech specs, shipping code, and participating in on-call (expect about 50% time spent hands on technically, depending on team size)
Develop technical requirements alongside our Product team
Solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems with distributed architectures and scaling systems
Make data and metrics-driven decisions to improve the user experience as well as developer quality of life
Continue to improve how we build, test, and deliver software
Collaborate with our stakeholders to design and implement new credit products, as well as new features for our existing platform

Benefits

Meaningful compensation and equity
Premium medical benefits (fully paid base plan, and very reasonable premium for the buy-up option)
4% employer 401k match
Unlimited PTO policy
Remote weeks around major holidays + extra holiday on weekends like MDW and LDW
High quality catered lunch by local chefs, 3 days / week
Gym subsidy
Paid cell phone + plan
Student loan repayment program
Relocation assistance
Generous team member discounts