Web Development Manager

HelloSign

(San Francisco, California)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About HelloSign

Our team of 9 engineers is curious, driven, friendly, and collaborative. We believe in an egoless approach to development and a blameless approach to problem solving. While we work independently, we support each other through frequent code and design reviews, daily stand-ups, and pair programming, facilitating learning and reducing friction in our regular release schedule of every 3 weeks.

Responsibilities

- Drive the development of our web application and API.
- Drive and define system architecture and solutions.
- Act as the liaison between support, product, marketing, sales and business development.
- Build and manage a team of high performing engineers.
- Develop, mentor and coach a high-functioning team of engineers.
- Identify and create meaningful projects that can be executed by your team for continuous improvement.
- Hold team members accountable to achieve goals and empower them to achieve them.
- Empower the team to work independently by determining short, medium and long-term goals.
- Identify inefficient workstreams and provide innovative solutions.
- Continuously work to improve and enhance software development processes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to communicate customer issues.
- Successfully define and enforce technical standards for quality, maintainability, scalability, availability and security.
- Collaborate on software development schedules for features and releases.
- Partner closely with Product Management to ensure and deliver the best technical solutions for the product.
- Establish annual goals for an engineering team and provide manageable and achievable targets.
- Anticipate application issues and make preparations to mitigate issues before they arise.
- Evaluate current systems and assess if they are able to meet the needs of the business as we grow.
- Create a metrics driven culture, measure effectiveness, optimize for best results and share success internally.

Drive the development of our web application and API.
Drive and define system architecture and solutions.
Act as the liaison between support, product, marketing, sales and business development.
Build and manage a team of high performing engineers.
Develop, mentor and coach a high-functioning team of engineers.
Identify and create meaningful projects that can be executed by your team for continuous improvement.
Hold team members accountable to achieve goals and empower them to achieve them.
Empower the team to work independently by determining short, medium and long-term goals.
Identify inefficient workstreams and provide innovative solutions.
Continuously work to improve and enhance software development processes.
Partner with business stakeholders to communicate customer issues.
Successfully define and enforce technical standards for quality, maintainability, scalability, availability and security.
Collaborate on software development schedules for features and releases.
Partner closely with Product Management to ensure and deliver the best technical solutions for the product.
Establish annual goals for an engineering team and provide manageable and achievable targets.
Anticipate application issues and make preparations to mitigate issues before they arise.
Evaluate current systems and assess if they are able to meet the needs of the business as we grow.
Create a metrics driven culture, measure effectiveness, optimize for best results and share success internally.

Ideal Candidate

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
- Ability to grow and manage a high performing team.
- Comfortable working with both creative, technical and non-technical professionals.
- Successfully communicate critical information to a large group of stakeholders and customers regarding customer feedback.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Self-directed and able to organize and prioritize workload independently with minimal supervision.
- 8+ years of  experience in a tech environment preferred.
- Minimum 1-2 years prior people management experience.
- Deep understanding of web design.
- Proven success managing a highly engaged engineering and QA team.
- Experience building and managing large scale websites.
- Creative problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent recruiting capabilities.
- Have a strong understanding of collaboration with stakeholders and ability to drive decisions and strategy.
- Prior experience with PHP and AWS.
- BA/BS degree required in Computer Science or similar field.
- Ability to get things done quickly and efficiently.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
Ability to grow and manage a high performing team.
Comfortable working with both creative, technical and non-technical professionals.
Successfully communicate critical information to a large group of stakeholders and customers regarding customer feedback.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Self-directed and able to organize and prioritize workload independently with minimal supervision.
8+ years of experience in a tech environment preferred.
Minimum 1-2 years prior people management experience.
Deep understanding of web design.
Proven success managing a highly engaged engineering and QA team.
Experience building and managing large scale websites.
Creative problem-solving abilities.
Excellent recruiting capabilities.
Have a strong understanding of collaboration with stakeholders and ability to drive decisions and strategy.
Prior experience with PHP and AWS.
BA/BS degree required in Computer Science or similar field.
Ability to get things done quickly and efficiently.