Manager of Software Engineering - Marketing Apps

Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based customer communication platform that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers. We deliver over 33 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

• Successfully recruit, manage, motivate and mentor members of the software engineering organization
• Collaborate with the product, sales, and ops organizations to deliver innovative, reliable products that delight our customers
• Build and manage software system applications and architecture to meet the future needs of our customers taking into consideration current and future technical standards
• Ensure a high level of quality in SendGrid’s software products
• Continuously look for ways to improve the engineering organization to increase throughput, improve quality, and continuously improve processes
• Lead our product delivery teams through vision definition, dependency planning and tracking, strategic planning, impediment removal, training and coaching
• Ensure your team’s goals are aligned with company and keep them on track
• Apply best practices to lead development teams through design, development, testing, code reviews, and deployment of features and components
• Be the voice of the team within the business and communicate the company vision and goals back to the team
• Provide inspirational thought leadership to the team in the areas of software development best practices, industry direction and innovation
• Collaborate with product management to ensure a deep understanding of requirements and how they map to our larger goals. Successfully translate those requirements for our engineers so that they can deliver
• Nurture SendGrid/Engineering culture
• Develop people within your teams towards career progression goals
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical discipline
• 5+ years of software development of large distributed production systems
• 5+ years of engineering management of teams of at least 6-10
• Previous experience with email marketing applications
• Strong working knowledge of various web application frameworks and templating engines
• Experience with web testing methodologies and frameworks
• Experience with search technologies and nosql datastores
• Success at participating in cross-functional development teams; naturally collaborative but decisive when needed
• Track record in building and sustaining high-performance teams
• Ability to manage multiple projects, teams and schedules in a rapid-growth environment, to coordinate successful/timely releases and achieve quality objectives
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Humble servant leader with stellar people-management and conflict-resolution skills
• SaaS product experience
• Agile champion (ideally Certified Scrum Master or Certified Product Owner)
• Ability to articulate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities