Job Description

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience, managing engineers and managers
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams

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  Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
• 5+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Deep hands-on technical expertise, excellent communication skills; experience in interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong problem solver and a track record of delivering large software projects in a leadership role.
• 5+ years of managing engineers
• Experience building teams and recruiting software engineers
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures

Job summary

We are looking for a senior leader to build and lead the team in designing, architecting and delivering a new product in the HR domain. Is that you? How can you tell? Well, you are passionate about producing innovative products to be able to transform and govern modern applications. You also love giving customers what they want: high quality, highly usable, always-on services. And you're happiest when you're guiding empowered, world-class managers and engineers to meet world-class challenges. You are passionate about outlining technical vision and moving innovation in your team and the industry forward.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business, tactical to system goals to specific interfaces. You don't shrink from the spotlight, able to coordinate cross-org meetings, field difficult questions, and create positive collaborative outcomes. You are adept at directing engineering and operations, evaluating research and writing documents for an executive audience. You ensure solutions are reliable, scalable and secure.

You will have an enormous opportunity to impact experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge products that will be used every day by people and influence industry and industry standards. No matter what the role, we’re looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership and want to have fun while they make history.

As a Sr. SDM, you are empowered to:

• Own vision, strategy planning, prioritization, driving architectural decisions, and end-to-end project delivery.
• Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs balancing the business needs versus constraints.
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.
• Manage careers of talented engineers and managers, including making great hiring decisions, setting goals, providing feedback and managing performance.
• Develop best practices to build and operate critical platform services.

Your teams will have highly challenging problems of scale and complexity, that requires a high power team of multiple principal engineers and tech leads.

• The ideal candidate has a track record of launching projects with Java/C#, C++, Perl, and distributed computing technologies
• Experience taking a leadership role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
• Experience influencing software engineer' best practices within your team
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions
• Master's Degree/PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-team scrum for agile software development
• A passion for people management and mentoring
• Experience influencing engineering best practices in your organization.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• AWS Certified

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