Department
: Funding
The Role: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Gemini has about one hundred software engineers spread across a dozen project teams.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for helping these teams define their roadmaps, plans, and goals, helping them achieve those goals, and guiding each team member to develop their career at Gemini.
Deeply involving yourself in the design and modernization process, and using your existing experience of building cloud systems at scale to guide the team to build robust, scalable and highly available systems.
Responsibilities:
Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team Deeply involved with system architecture of the team, guiding the team through new systems being built, or integrating into existing systems.
Using prior design experience to identify pitfalls in scaling, performance, availability and helping the team navigate it Helping raise the bar on engineering practices through high quality code review feedbacks, design reviews, testing, and CICD practices Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to externally and internally imposed deadlines and targets Make hiring plans and hiring decisions Give frequent feedback and coaching to your team members, coordinating with people from around the company to get a full understanding of your team’s performance Provide a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for your team to execute on its priorities and evolve its capabilities over time Communicate at all levels from senior leaders to individual contributors, including technical and non-technical audiences Adapt the team’s plans and goals to changing realities in a fast-moving industry Effectively resolve ambiguity, helping the team to analyze complex requirements and break down features and initiatives into tasks Own the team’s output, taking responsibility for everyone’s performance Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends Qualifications:
You have 10+ years of experience in software development & delivery You have 4+ years of managing engineering teams, delivering high quality software for customers You're technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions You have experience with modern software engineering concepts Ideally, you have expertise in backend systems built with C++ or Java You have experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners It Pays to Work Here
We take a holistic approach to compensation at Gemini, which includes:
Comprehensive health plans covered at 100% for employees and dependents Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant Paid Parental Leave Up to 14 paid vacation days (in addition to public/bank holidays)