Engineering Manager
Partnerize
Who We Are
At Partnerize, we're on a mission to transform the way businesses grow. We've built the leading partnership automation platform that empowers brands to discover, engage, and convert their audiences at scale. From affiliate marketing to influencer collaborations, we help our clients build and manage profitable partnerships that drive real results. We're a team of passionate problem-solvers who are dedicated to helping our clients win in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.
Why Join Us
We're looking for passionate, talented people who want to be part of a winning team. At Partnerize, you'll find a culture of collaboration, innovation, and respect. We're guided by our core values, and we're committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work. We also offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a flexible work environment that allows you to thrive both personally and professionally. If you're ready to grow your career and make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Summary:
The engineering manager will balance between being a developer, manager and the architect within the team. They will keep an eye on delivery, help break down and plan work streams. They will also focus on applying patterns and practices agreed at tribe and company level consistently within the team. They will have a good understanding of the business and their team priorities and part of the roadmap. They will help manage dependencies on deliverables managed by the Ops team.
The things you care about
At the heart of our platform we track performance marketing data and build a number of solutions to turn this data into useful information for our customers. We work with a lot of data, generating over a billion events across our infrastructure daily. We aim to make as much of this data available in real-time as possible, which is no mean feat at this scale! Our platform is powered by our REST APIs and everything is developed with an API-first approach.
The primary technologies we use are PHP, Python, JavaScript (React), and Kafka. Data is stored in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Druid and Redis. We are constantly evolving our platform and tools to take advantage of the ever-changing tech landscape. We deploy to production several times a day.
As an Engineering Manager at Partnerize, you will:
- Manage 2 to 6 direct reports within your engineering discipline.
- Hold regular 1:1s and set and monitor quarterly personal goals of your direct reports.
- Mentor and grow direct reports’ skills.
- Lead a cross-functional, delivery-focused team with engineers, QA and Product managers working together using Agile principles in a highly autonomous and collaborative environment.
- Work closely with Product managers and Scrum Masters to ensure timely delivery of product roadmap items.
- Confidently share knowledge, code and ideas across other teams - we use tribes to facilitate this.
- Lead projects that have impact on tribe-wide goals.
- Actively look to improve engineering practices and processes.
- Establish a shared team technical vision, aligned with the product roadmap.
- Ensure code quality through merge requests.
- Support, coach and mentor other team members.
- Write clean, well-tested and refactored code alongside the other engineers
- Manage a product technical roadmap to minimise technical debt.
- Champion software quality.
- Champion agile best practices like TDD, Continuous integration and delivery.
- Master a complex business domain.
You are a software engineer with:
- Extensive software engineering experience using one or more languages including PHP
- Experience with architecture design while leading software development team
- OO skills, strong design and integration patterns knowledge
- Experience with Agile and Lean delivery approaches and modern engineering practices, such as clean code, TDD, refactoring, Domain driven design, Continuous integration and delivery
- Experience in designing, developing and consuming REST APIs and APIs as product
- Experience with communicating technical vision and passion for close collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- The ability to communicate in a concise and focused way, listen to others, and practice patience
We hope you have:
- Passion for close collaboration with QA engineers and Product managers
- Ability to break down a complex problem into more manageable chunks
- “Getting things done” attitude
- Experience with Symfony
- Experience with container technologies, such as Docker
- Experience with distributed data processing, real-time data streaming and messaging systems
- Demonstrate behaviours that encourage a DevOps culture
US Benefits & Perks
- Flexible Time Off Policy - Take the time you need
- Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks for birth parent, 8 weeks for non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
- Robust Company Sponsored Health & Welfare Benefits
- 401k Plan - 4% employee match
- Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
- Regular company events and activities
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.
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