Engineering Manager

Care.com•Salt Lake City, UT

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

About Care.com Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that. Care.com offers of an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier. Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you’re all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you. Work Environment: Hybrid - We are in the office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday Our office locations: Austin - 816 Congress Ave. # 800, 78701 Dallas - 2801 North Central Expressway, 11th Floor 27524 Salt Lake City - 1850 Ashton Blvd Suite 500, Lehi, UT 84043 We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technology team as an Engineering Manager. The candidate would join a small, agile team responsible for building a platform to support our community team. The candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, programming, testing, documentation, and implementation of new product features. Design and develop an extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed system that uses technologies such as Golang microservices deployed on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh gRPC and GraphQL APIs AWS Lambdas AWS Step Functions & Express Workflows Amazon EventBridge AWS DynamoDB Postgres AWS Cloud Development Kit Kafka Elasticsearch Work with stakeholders in product management to understand business requirements Work with other disciplines to drive cross-functional efforts Shape development processes to promote a high-quality output while continuing to iterate quickly Own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, performance, and completeness Work with team to create architecture and design documents, project timeline, and user stories Ability to lead and manage a globally distributed development team Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of members of the team

Requirements

5+ years of professional engineering experience
1+ years of experience leading a team (team/tech lead)
3+ years hands on experience with React
Hands on experience with Golang or Ruby is a must
Experience with Microservices architecture
Deep experience with AWS
Ability to thrive as part of a multi-site development team

Responsibilities

analysis
design
programming
testing
documentation
implementation of new product features
Design and develop an extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed system that uses technologies such as Golang microservices deployed on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh gRPC and GraphQL APIs AWS Lambdas AWS Step Functions & Express Workflows Amazon EventBridge AWS DynamoDB Postgres AWS Cloud Development Kit Kafka Elasticsearch
Work with stakeholders in product management to understand business requirements
Work with other disciplines to drive cross-functional efforts
Shape development processes to promote a high-quality output while continuing to iterate quickly
Own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, performance, and completeness
Work with team to create architecture and design documents, project timeline, and user stories
Ability to lead and manage a globally distributed development team
Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of members of the team