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We are proud (and excited!) to be transforming the world of email by helping our customers plan, execute, and optimize their email programs with the industry's most trusted email sending and deliverability platform.

Engineering Manager, Transmissions | Remotely from USA

As an independent and true leader, you communicate expectations clearly to all team members - soliciting and delivering individual feedback often - and you are a star in stakeholder management.

You are the type of person who has a higher overview but knows what’s happening on the ground. You're not expected to write code on a day-to-day basis. You do however, have a strong technical background and understand the applications and products you lead well enough to contribute to the architecture and product vision. You collect information about areas of technical debt, carry out cost/benefit analysis for resolving it, and communicate suggested timelines to the Product and Engineering teams in order to do so.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of 8+ engineers
• Build innovative customer-facing products, including launching and supporting in production using DevOps engineering practices.
• Work on challenging problems involving scalability and performance and enjoy helping your team members thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
• As a player/coach you will have a strong aptitude for and love of coding, learning new tech, and mentoring while serving as a technical manager for a squad
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Principals and Team Leads to ensure the team has clear direction and priorities. Ensure there is a balance between shipping features and building a reliable product.
• Establish development best practices to ensure the team produces high quality, well architected code.
• Build high performance, high-velocity squads, measuring and iterating on processes as we grow and evolve as a business.
• Set the right balance between finding opportunities for the team to learn/improve, and shipping products on time.
• Set goals and directions for teams and team members, based on top-down goals & objectives and track progress against them.

What you’ll bring

• 6+ years of hands on software development and system design experience
• 2+ years experience leading teams of 5-10 engineers as an Engineering Manager in a highly technical and complex environment.
• Experience building high performance REST APIs in Node.js
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting scalable applications as micro services in the cloud.
• The ability to quickly upscale knowledge and learn new technologies, systems, frameworks and APIs
• You have a proactive attitude, are a team player, who is passionate about building and growing your team through coaching, talent development & performance management
• You are very competent with Linux and have worked in an AWS environment.
• A BS and/or an MS in a relevant technical field is preferred.

What You’ll Gain

• Work from anywhere 
• Generous stock options for all Birds
• WFH set-up budget
• State-of-the-art work gear
• Learn from hundreds of the best minds in the business
• Collaborate with diverse colleagues from over 55 countries (and counting)

LIFTOFF! 🚀

Life at MessageBird:

We call ourselves Birds!

We work fast, grow fast, build fast and focus on impact. We’re go-getters, industry leaders and roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen kind of people. 

Ready To Fly?

SparkPost, a MessageBird company, is the world’s largest and most reliable email sender, delivering nearly 40% of all commercial email—that’s over 6 trillion sends annually—and also has the world’s largest email data footprint to help enterprise-level brands make data-driven decisions to improve their email performance.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, we’re proud to be a “Work Anywhere” company. Our unique and united culture is rooted in our team: a diverse flock of over 750 Birds who represent 55 nationalities and counting. We’re smart, fast, and hungry. Our potential for growth is limitless. You can learn more about our story and life as a Bird via https://www.linkedin.com/company/messagebird-com/life/welcome/ 

We understand that “life happens” and give you the freedom to choose the best environment for you to “get sh*t done”. Our Birds choose where they work from in the region or country we’re hiring in, so long as it’s within the job’s complementary timezone as indicated in the Job descriptions — this could be from one of our MessageBird hubs (Amsterdam, USA, Singapore or Bogota) or remotely.... Want to work from a rural retreat? Sure, no problem! How about a bustling city getaway for a few weeks? Go ahead!

MessageBird is committed to fostering a fair and equal environment based on trust and mutual respect. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to our success and we are committed to building a team that represents a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 

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