- Provide people management for a cross-functional product development team

- Manage HR activities as a direct manager

- Coach and mentor through 1x1s and other professional development means, including leveraging senior team members as technical mentors to grow the skills of more junior developers

- Facilitate career growth opportunities

- Enable a flexible yet productive work environment supporting a distributed workforce

- Partner with product managers to outline roadmaps and communicate updates on progress

- Participate in software architectural discussions, influencing decisions, and collaborating with peers to maintain consistency across the organization

- Work with engineers to implement features, debug issues/escalations, prioritize technical debt

- Ensure delivered solutions adhere to the software architecture strategy coding standards, security guidelines, and established organizational policies and procedures

- Identify and champion process and productivity improvement strategies for the team(s)

What you bring to the role :

- Demonstrated success in an Agile development environment leveraging modern CI/CD best practices

- Experience with daily operations associated with a SAAS application running in a public cloud requiring 24/7 availability, and operating at a large data scale

- Experience managing an application containing both modern aspects, as well as legacy systems and the ability to manage an architectural roadmap to modernize and and manage technical debt appropriately

- Experience with Lucene or Elasticsearch a plus

- Exposure to public cloud architectures and deployments, distributed system designs involving data storage, databases, streaming/queueing services, batch processing workflows, observability and monitoring best practices

- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Product Managers, Designers, Devops Engineers

- Bachelors degree in technology, or equivalent work experience