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