Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions. They are seeking a smart and technically focused Engineering Dev Manager to manage engineering pods and help in planning and delivering on the product roadmap while supporting team members' professional development.
Responsibilities
- Pod and people management - making sure the pods are humming along with well structured interactions/schedule and clear goals. For individuals on pods, this includes growth & development, performance management, onboarding as well as making hard decisions (moving out people who aren't a fit), and retention
- Act as a multiplier and unblocker to help your pods quickly build new features from start to finish and back end to front end
- Work closely with Tech Leads and Product Managers to help define and refine projects - weighing in on architecture, work breakdown, scheduling and release planning
- Communicate status and progress on delivery objectives to senior management
- Work closely with and supporting your teammates in an agile development environment and helping reinforce and continue to improve our agile practices
- Contribute to the work in progress, including architecture and PR review and updating shared documentation
- Mentor junior and mid/senior staff to help them grow in their craft
- Drive efforts around the interviewing and onboarding new team members to your pods and assist in the refinement of our team-wide interviewing processes
- Contribute to team-wide initiatives including coding standards, technical debt refinement and system security monitoring
- Work closely with the VP of Engineering and CTO on team-wide professional development initiatives
- Participate in the support of the platform on a rotational basis (pod based support and 24/7 on call rotation for incident lead to support engineers who are on call)
Skills
- Have lead one or more teams as both a technical lead and people manager in a fast-paced, agile development environment
- System design experience with a focus on architecting solutions that can be implemented incrementally while keeping an eye towards scale and resilience
- Leadership skills which balance both people management and technical excellence. Someone who can coach team members on technical and agile practices while still weighing in on PR reviews around high-risk code changes
- Functional, real world programming experience (vs. theoretical) in one of the following: Ruby, Python or Javascript/node.js
- Experience with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Django, Pyramid, etc
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks like React and Vue.js
- SQL database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
- 3 plus years in a manager role, 10 plus years of hands-on development experience
- Managed teams that shipped code supporting tens of thousands of users, including enterprise/business customers
- Deep expertise with Ruby/Ruby on Rails and automated testing (rspec or minitest)
- Experience with deployments to Heroku, AWS, or similar
- Operations experience and how it pertains to site reliability/speed
- Familiarity with networking, caching, database, and how to triage performance and stability issues (ideally with Postgres or MySQL)
- Experience working on a fundraising/crowdfunding platform
- Experience working on a fintech or payments technology product
Benefits
- Team members work from anywhere they choose
- Beautiful 12,000sf office in Washington, DC that is available for people to use whenever they want
- Regularly organize team meet-ups, visit partner institutions, and host retreats in various locations
- Flexible, distributed work
- Expected to attend multiple company-wide and team-specific onsites throughout the year
- Company and department retreats 2-3 times a year
Company Overview
GiveCampus is a fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://go.givecampus.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
GiveCampus has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.