Senior Engineering Manager-Membership Technology

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**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.’s Digital & Technology organization provides world-class software engineering solutions across our enterprise. Our focus is transforming legacy systems into high-scale, cloud-native digital assets. We build scalable, high-performing full-stack systems (in Java and React) that can stand up to peak holiday load.
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager who will lead a technical team within our Subscriptions domain. Subscriptions are at the center of a critical company initiative to deepen customer relationships through high-value services. This is an opportunity to build a team and play a key role enabling digital transformation within **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***..
What kinds of work do Senior Engineering Managers perform at **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.?
Software engineering leaders on this team are expected to be “full lifecycle” engineers. By this, we mean that staff is involved in initiatives from end-to-end. This involves working with the agile product owner to understand desired behavior, developing a software architecture, documenting designs for review boards, decomposing work for execution by a small on-site team, and implementing, testing, and reviewing the work produced. For senior level staff, our work is always a mix of applied architecture, mentoring, hands-on coding, and agile work decomposition & delegation. The Senior Engineering Manager position adds formal HR management and bottom-line delivery responsibility to this mix.

This job has two parts.
First, building a new full-stack team with you as the leader. This team’s focus is designing and building cloud-native services. This team will be a mix of employees and consultants. Second, overseeing existing systems by directing a team staffed with contract workers. This existing team maintains our current, previous-generation business functionality. Over time, you will migrate functionality from old to new, with an ultimate decommissioning of the existing system.
Engineers report to other engineers within the **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. Digital organization. This role will report to a Director of Software Engineering with significant hands-on experience in digital transformation.
What is the technology stack?
**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. builds twelve-factor cloud-native systems using containers & serverless technologies in AWS and Google Cloud. Our primary technologies are Java and React, often supported by Kafka, Cassandra, and Google data warehousing technologies.
What impact will you have?
You will be the founding leader of a new durable agile engineering team. You will help lead, design, and build modern systems to replace legacy technology. You will support agile engineering practices like DevOps and continuous releases. You will enable improvement multipliers in cost and quality and help the business develop an important new capability.
Minimum Requirements
8 years of experience developing software, with 3 years experience in Java
2 years experience mentoring and leading others
3 years experience designing, documenting, and presenting software design & architecture
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
Organized and methodical, with an ability to organize and decompose agile software epics
Experience working on teams using agile methodologies
Specific software development experience in:
- Java, especially Java 8
- JavaScript, especially React.js
- Building RESTful microservices using Spring, especially using Spring Boot
- Object-oriented analysis and design & design patterns
- Designing and building cloud-native software, particularly in AWS and GCP
- Asynchronous messaging platforms and event-driven architectures, particularly those backed by Google PubSub or Kafka
- Relational database design & writing SQL
- Programming for concurrency & scalability
- Container orchestration architecture and deployment in OpenShift or similar
- Google BigTable, Cassandra, or other non-relational data stores

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