Engineering Manager
Who we are...
BombBomb makes it easy to use simple videos to build relationships through email, text and social media. Our team is scrappy and intelligent. Competitive and collaborative. Fun-loving and tenacious. We’re close-knit and love adding new talent to the mix. Rehumanizing the planet can’t be done without EXCELLENT people and we want to add you to our already amazing team!
Who we're looking for…
BombBomb’s software engineering organization has been agile from day one. We highly value continuous delivery, automated testing, rich communication and short feedback cycles. BombBomb’s software engineering teams all utilize Agile methodologies (primarily Scrum) that have been highly successful for many years. Our Engineering organization is growing and we are enthusiastic about taking our next step by adding an Engineering Manager to our team!
This leader will primarily be responsible for helping develop our software engineers and remove impediments identified by the team members who will be reporting to them. They will do this by coaching them to perform at a high level and consistently produce quality software. They will monitor the performance of their teams and continuously identify ways to improve their work flows. They will understand how the teams interact with each other and the larger company and identify ways that we can improve our processes to ensure that BombBomb’s software engineering organization develops products that our customers love. They will be responsible for the career development of the engineers reporting to them to ensure that we are providing them with a world-class environment.
What you will do…
- Establish and maintain good relationships with all members of the product and software engineering teams within the first six months
- Consistently delivers software products on-time, efficiently and with a high degree of quality and reliability
- Ensure that we are providing our engineers with a world-class environment, one in which they love what they do and they understand how they can directly contribute to help the company meet our business objectives
- Tend, advocate and be accountable for the completeness and accuracy of engineering work items in Jira
- Coach team members to ensure that they are making responsible commitments and are following through on their commitments
- Foster a mentality in which the success of the team is paramount
- Work with the Product Managers and the members of the teams to ensure that each team has a healthy, refined product backlog with specific, measurable outcomes
- Measure and report on key performance indicators of software engineering teams including: velocity, committed vs. delivered, opportunity type breakdown, escaped defect rate, etc.
- Lead Sprint Review presentations & demos
- Actively participate and help drive discussions during Technology Quarterly Planning Offsites
- Ensure that the teams adhere to their budgets and help forecast future budgets
- Approve time-off requests and expense reports in a timely manner
- Schedule weekly 1-on-1 meetings with all direct reports
How you'll do it...
Embody BombBomb’s core values: Relationships, Fun, Humility, Flexibility and Service.
- Clearly demonstrate an Agile mindset
- Embrace the notion of continuous improvement
- Enjoy coaching people and helping them grow individually and professionally
- Demonstrate ability to attract and retain A-Player talent and help them develop to become even better
- Plan, organize, schedule and budget in an efficient, productive manner.
- Understand priorities and helps set priorities for teams
- Able to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way
- Determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends
- Expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best
- Speak and write clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative
- Adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions and cope effectively with complexity and change
Our ideal candidate will be or have…
- Experience leading teams in an Agile/Scrum organization
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead cutting-edge teams in a fast, challenging and exciting culture
- BS or MS in Computer Science (In lieu of degree, relevant work experience)
- 2+ years delivering SaaS software in a cloud environment, preferably AWS
- 3+ years leading multiple high performance software delivery teams
- 5+ years developing software applications targeting multiple runtime environments
BombBomb Benefits Package Includes…
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits for you and your family (2 PPO + HSA option)
- 15 days paid time off
- 9 paid holidays
- 401k Plan with employer match
- Weekly company-catered lunch
- Fun workplace: happy hour every Friday and company game room
- Annual Education / Development for your career growth