Web Development Manager

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.

- 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.

- 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.