Engineering Manager

Favor • Texas, TX

49d • Hybrid

About The Position

Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business, enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more. As the Engineering Manager, you will help create the tools and applications necessary to connect customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams. You will lead a team of engineers who build applications, services, and cloud infrastructure for Favor's product portfolio across multiple platforms including microservices, web, iOS, and Android and work closely with engineering and product leadership to instill a culture of quality and iterative development across all engineering disciplines and increase the quality, confidence, and reliability of everything Favor builds.

Requirements

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role including 2+ years of experience leading high performing engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring, motivating, and leading a team through successful software projects.
• Experience setting business expectations and scope as well as providing technology. recommendations.
• Experience working with public cloud providers and cloud native application development.
• Experience or familiarity with one or more of PHP, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Java, Node.js, React, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, XCUITest, Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, Espresso.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in both a high-growth startup and growing medium sized company is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of individual contributors including responsibility for 1:1s, giving regular feedback, performance management and career development conversations
• Empower the team to deliver their very best.
• Facilitate goal-level creation for the broader function and work with other managers to support setting of team level goals.
• Understand the fundamentals of the business and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with the business opportunities.
• Identify and implement enhancements to standards, processes, and tools.
• Evaluate new technology solutions and partnerships to accelerate the engineering and product organization
• Collaborate closely with product management and engineering as equal stakeholders in the product development process.
• Participate in architectural design and coordinate with other software engineering managers as needed for a consistent approach within the suite of applications.
• Consistently strive to improve collaboration and communications.
• Partner with leaders to identify and plan capabilities required to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to determine priorities and impact.

Benefits

• premium health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401(k) options
• Favor delivery fee credit
• H-E-B discounts
• unlimited PTO for salaried employees
• ample vacation time to all team members

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed