Senior Manager, Software Engineering
At Evolve we’re a hardworking team serious about hospitality. Our teams work every day to make vacation rental easy for everyone — from our owners who trust Evolve to build their business to our guests who rest easy with every stay to our Evolvers who make this difference a reality. Our values anchor our daily decisions and interactions with our customers, communities, and each other. Join our inclusive culture in one of the most rapidly-growing segments in travel. Find your home at Evolve.
Why this role
The Senior Manager of Software Engineering will lead our teams responsible for our booking engine, payments system, connections with our distribution partners, and related systems. This role will be technical, including responsibility for architecture, technical strategy, and communication of technical decisions across the wider organization in addition to delivery of critical systems. This role will be leading a distributed team of engineers focused on delivering robust, high-performing, traceable, observable server side systems in a fast-paced agile environment. This role will collaborate closely with other development teams (this is a “complicated sub-system” team), the product organization, and many parts of the commercial organization to understand internal and external stakeholder needs and plan migration and roll-out strategies.
This role requires broad and deep experience with large-scale system migrations (not rewrites), API design, and developing critical integrations with third party systems. Candidates must be comfortable leading strategy, planning iterative and incremental releases, and contributing tactically to design.
This role will identify and drive resourcing needs, collaborate on technology + tool selections, and assign resources as needed to complete product requirements.
What you’ll do
- Lead all strategy, design, and implementation efforts related to migrating core critical systems from a proprietary “low code” environment to an open source stack
- Oversee technical design and development of new features and capabilities in our booking engine, as well as APIs to be used by other internal systems
- Lead all strategy, design, and implementation efforts related to third party system integration with our distribution partners
- Hire, manage and mentor an internal team of developers, while setting priorities and structure for extended external team
- Partner cross functionally with the Product team and the commercial organization including revenue management, distribution operations, accounting, and guest services to coordinate migration existing services and define roadmaps for improvements in alignment with the product vision
- Collaborate with other development teams to define and design high-performing APIs that will interact with web user interfaces
- Work closely with the DevOps team to implement CI/CD processes that shorten the development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of high quality software
- Establish coding standards and best practices
- Define and implement agile processes that are a best fit and help drive engineering velocity and quality
- Guide technology and tool decisions as they relate to development
What makes you a great fit
- 5-8+ years of product development experience
- 1-3+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience designing, planning, and executing legacy system migrations
- Desire to design and build world class solutions
- Experience building commerce applications
- Experience in an agile or extreme programming environment
- Salesforce integration and or development experience a plus
Location
We currently are able to hire throughout the U.S. except in the following states: District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. There are also certain positions that may have hiring impacts in the following states: California, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington. If you live in Colorado, you can work remotely anywhere in the state, at our downtown Denver office, or a hybrid of both!
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Compensation
For this role our salary range is $190,000 to $240,000, depending on relevant experience. This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.
How we reward Evolvers
Evolvers have access to highly competitive benefits and rewards that support their whole well-being so they can focus on bringing their best selves to work.
Financial
- Industry competitive pay, including equity in the company for all Evolvers
- 401(k) with a 4% match that vests immediately
Family
- 6 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and non-birth parents
- Infertility coverage
- Child care discounts and locator support
- Pet insurance to cover your furry children
Well-being
- Comprehensive health plans that include a 100% employer paid option for the Evolver
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision for the Evolver
- 8 free mental health visits
Unplug and Explore
- Take some time away from work with generous PTO, sick, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what’s more important to YOU
- Annual Evolve travel credit after 1 year
- Discounts to stay at Evolve properties
Learn Every Day
- World class onboarding programs
- Learning and development opportunities
How we work together
With our core values as our guide, every Evolver helps shape the company we want to work for and the people we want to be. We’ve cultivated a culture of collaboration, care, and responsibility that we can all be proud of, and we’re excited to see what you’ll bring as your authentic self.
Still curious about who we are and what we do? Read more about our business and our culture at evolve.com.
EEO
At Evolve, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military service or veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Evolve participates in e-Verify for all positions.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please let your recruiter know.