YOUR MISSION

We are looking for a world-class Engineering Manager to lead a couple of small to mid-sized teams building our suite of SaaS digital advertisement products, powered by our ecosystem of loosely coupled NodeJS Microservices. You’ll focus on guiding and upleveling Frontend and Backend Engineers. You’ll regularly pair up with others, perform code reviews, plan out tasks and projects, estimate workloads and provide guidance for others doing the same. You’ll be working closely with Product Design, Product Management, and our Architects to elevate quality and reliability of development as well as the overall engineering culture.
To ensure success as an Engineering Manager at Factor-Eleven, ideally you should have some knowledge of Typescript and NodeJS based services. Any experience with AWS, Kafka, and GraphQL is a plus. You’ll occasionally be hands-on and you should demonstrate great mentoring skills, team spirit and leadership abilities, resonating a highly positive impact on the people around you. An accomplished Engineering Manager will be someone who effectively and permanently raises the bar of the teams he/she joins, resulting in a department-wide improvement of quality, reliability, scalability and culture.

• Lead cross-functional teams in the conceptualization and implementation of complex features and services
• Stay 50% hands-on! We believe the only way to be a great Engineering Manager is to continue to be a great engineer.
• Mentor and provide career guidance to the engineers on your teams
• Collaborate with peers, within and outside the team, to help develop a long-term vision for our engineering practices and tooling.
• Consistently lead teams to deliver compelling products, features and services. Providing transparent updates, timeline estimates, and demos along the way
• Participate in defining and fulfilling the engineering hiring plan for the team, including screening and interviewing
• Help ensure that our coding standards and patterns are observed by participating in design discussions, testing and code reviews
• You’ll assist our support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.
• 1:1s and performance discussions with team members
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, secure, and efficient code.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements of technologies including Node.js and AWS
• Write and review tasks and estimate workloads for yourself and others.