Engineering Manager | Home, Red Ventures, NC, US

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on OPT and STEM-EXT OPT, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.

Red Ventures Home is working to build best-in-class technology to drive digital transformation for our nationally recognized clients. As a Red Ventures company, we have more than 20 years of experience building strategic relationships with some of the world’s most powerful brands across industries like telecom, financial services, real estate, and entertainment.

As an engineering manager on Red Ventures Home, we’d look for you to find joy in managing engineering teams that are working on the cutting edge of technology in a fast-paced, learning-first environment. At Red Ventures, you’ll work in an environment that harbors innovation, collaboration, accountability, and flexibility. You’ll have the ability to make a difference and a real-world impact on a weekly basis as you lead a team of engineers through the delivery pipeline for our partners.

The right candidate for this role will be highly-organized and collaborative; with a passion for solving problems cross-functionally. But you won’t do it alone — you’ll have a collaborative cross-disciplinary team of developers, designers, product managers, and other engineers to support you.

Don’t meet all the requirements but feel you would be a great fit, we encourage you to please apply and outline how your experience fits!

What You'll Do:

• Manage a team of software engineers and position them for success through training, mentorship, and leadership
• Contribute to key architectural decisions
• Drive delivery and daily execution across an engineering team
• Plan across one or more sprint teams
• Partner with project managers to scope, plan, and drive execution from the team.
• Develop working relationships with the Customer Experience, Product, and Creative teams to enable your team to deliver high-quality features and timely solutions to problems that arise
• Work closely with the engineers to improve process and code quality
• Responsible for soliciting feedback and delivering reviews
• Work with the Technical Project Manager to navigate ceremonies and sprints, and manage the ticket workflow in Jira
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers across the organization to align on talent expectations, innovation, and resourcing
• Demonstrate project and roadmap planning skills
• Assist with defining standards and requirements for tech tooling/workflows
• Lead SRE, incident management, and Devops best practices for the engineering team
• Manage the delivery of high-quality software while keeping morale high
• Be a shepherd of culture

What We're Looking For:

• A passion for people
• Experience leading software teams
• Ability to teach, develop, and give feedback to team members
• Familiarity with modern application design, such as serverless, event-based, and functional architectures
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, React/Next, Node, Typescript, SQL and, AWS or Azure
• Experience building integrations with external APIs
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform
• Experience with full-stack development and various databases
• Experience with implementing integration testing, E2E testing, and regression testing
• Experience with sales, CRM, or ERP systems
• Ability to assess team’s resourcing and delivery scope and estimates
• Growth Mindset: A relentless desire to learn and excel in a tech-driven environment
• Excellent communication skills for effective team collaboration, including the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with agile methodologies and tools (Jira)
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager

Even Better:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect Certification
• Experience with telemetry and monitoring such as New Relic or AWS Cloud Watch 
• Experience with DataBricks
• Ability to read, write, and debug SQL queries
• Understanding of how eventing works, how data pipelines work, and what type of support these ecosystems need
• A past in navigating legal and compliance audits and approvals
• Experience managing engineers whose function is outside your core expertise (e.g., you’re a front-end engineer overseeing DevOps)
• Experience leading/working on more than one sprint team at a time
• Experience working in the consumer internet space
• Core Web Vital, overall site speed and Accessibility best practices

Compensation

• USA Compensation Range: $130,000-$190,000*
  *Note actual compensation is based on geographic location, qualifications, and experience. 

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program

Who We Are:

Founded in 2000, Red Ventures (RV) is home to a diverse portfolio of industry-leading brands and businesses, strategic partnerships and proprietary technology – including Bankrate, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, BestColleges and more. Together, RV helps millions of people worldwide make life’s most important decisions, accelerates digital adaptation, and innovates the online consumer experience by improving every step of the consumer journey – from first discovery of information, throughout the decision-making process, to transactions. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures employs thousands of people across the US and Puerto Rico, with international offices in the UK and Brazil. For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.

At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com. 

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