Engineering Manager, Core Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee one or more teams of senior engineers within the Core Engineering division.

• Take ownership of a transversal core engineering domain and ensure operational excellence.

• Lead both tactical and strategic initiatives for the engineering domain.

• Conduct reviews of code and architecture, offering technical and design insights.

• Actively engage in recruiting efforts and contribute to the growth of the engineering team.

• Provide performance evaluations, hold one-on-one meetings, and facilitate career development for direct reports.

• Collaborate with Technical and Product counterparts to define the team's vision and direction, ensuring alignment with organizational and business objectives.

• Choose technology vendors and make decisions regarding build-versus-buy strategies with the team.

• Communicate technical and product decisions, address blocking issues, and collaborate with organizational leaders.

• Transform SeatGeek’s technical foundation into a robust, user-centric product, enhancing developer experience and delivery reliability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building and leading lean teams.

• Capacity to cultivate safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environments.

• Skill in shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps in a fast-paced and dynamic setting.

• Ability to clarify complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

• Understanding of the technology industry and the implications of tooling/framework choices.

• Leadership capability through context-setting, facilitating collaboration, and gaining consensus across product, design, engineering, and leadership teams.

• Previous experience in an engineering role.

• Familiarity with tools across various technology stacks.

• Hands-on experience in developing highly available and distributed systems, particularly with container orchestration systems.

• Core engineering proficiencies and an eagerness to learn new tools or programming languages.

• Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Go, GitLab, AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Datadog, Fastly, Kong, or Cilium is not mandatory for every technology listed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity stake.

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• Flexible work environment, permitting you to work in the office as many days a week as you prefer or entirely remotely.

• A WFH stipend to assist with your home office setup.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave.

• 401(k) matching.

• Student loan matching program.

• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance.

• Up to $25k allocated towards family building, reproductive health services, and gender-affirming care.

• $500 annually for wellness expenses.

• Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical.

• $360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events.

• Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music.