Associate Manager, Engineering

LivingSocial is a leading marketplace to buy and share the best things to do in your city – or wherever you may be.

We provide a trusted, convenient source for finding value on everyday items and activities and identifying novel, enriching and fun experiences for you to enjoy and share with your friends.

We are currently looking to add an experienced Engineering Manager to our team. This Manager of Engineering is one of the most fundamental positions within the Engineering business. While overseeing a number of local and remote staff, the Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring the team delivers on all fronts: solving big problems and building applications and tools that help the entire engineering team to work more effectively and easily. You will act as the liaison and primary point of contact between all projects and the development platform team.

As manager of the development platform team, you will be expected to help establish clear expectations and goals for the team. You will play a key role in establishing mutual trust between your team and the other teams in the engineering organization. You will be expected to help create a team community and culture for your distributed team, make opportunities for team members to work together, celebrate together, learn from one another, etc.

• 5+ years of professional development experience
• Experience leading a team of creative, driven developers that solve big problems, and an ability to foster a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment
• Proven record as a “roadblock demolisher”, ability to manage time between coding and managing (projects, meetings, etc)
• Extensive experience in Ruby / Rails as well as the ability to recognize what the right tool is for a given task.
• A background in system administration and application deployment tools.
• Used to deconstructing big complex problems into small, manageable pieces