Manager, Engineering (Front End)

About Us:

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Overview:

As the Manager, you will play a vital part in driving solid cloud architecture and ensure best engineering practices across multiple engineering teams. You, along with your globally dispersed teammates, will collaborate to build micro-service based systems responsible for helping our customers share content and information.

You will work closely with our product leads, engineering leads, team to extract business-critical components/logic out of a monolith and create a build a microservice with a design and data model that sets Seismic up for the next ten years.  This is an opportunity to work as a technical thought-leader and make a difference at a growing company.

Who you are:

• An experienced software engineer with a passion for building and innovating.
• Seen as an active contributor in the team problem-solving-process – you aren’t afraid to share your opinions in a low-ego manner or roll up your sleeves and write critical path code or refactor a significant piece of code.
• Deep experience across multiple software projects, driving end-to-end software development lifecycle of an architecturally complex system or product.
• Ability to think tactically as well as strategically, respecting what came before you and always thinking longer-term.
• Highly focused on operational excellence and software quality, with experience in CI/CD and best operational practices. 
• Your technical skills are sought after as you develop in a pragmatic and efficient manner.
• You enjoy solving challenging problems, all while having a blast with equally passionate and talented team members.

What you’ll be doing:

• Help lead a global engineering team while collaborating and driving technical and architectural decisions
• Collaborate with globally-dispersed product managers, designers, and software engineers to rapidly build, test, and deploy code to create innovative solutions and add values to our customers’ experience with Seismic.
• Explore new technologies and industry trends and bring your findings to life in our products.
• Participate in and contribute towards code reviews, bug/issue triage, and documentation.
• Contribute to troubleshooting and continuous quality improvements.

What you bring to the team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of Software Development experience within a SaaS business.
• Experienced in front end development specifically with React and Typescript
• Strong proven record with user interface, interaction and accessibility best practices
• Expertise with designing and developing design systems and front end component libraries and shared components
• Experience with designing for security, performance, internationalization/localization, and accessibility.
• Experience with the SCRUM and the AGILE development process.
• Familiarity and comfortability developing in cloud-based environments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Experience managing high performance teams providing leadership, mentorship and career development for team members, and overall technical ownership and leadership for Front End design system.

What we have for you:

At Seismic, we’re committed to providing benefits and perks for the whole self. To explore our benefits available in each country, please visit the Global Benefits page.