Engineering Manager | The Points Guy

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on OPT and STEM-EXT OPT, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in either our Fort Mill, SC; New York; or Puerto Rico offices (Tuesday through Thursday) and work fully remotely on Mondays and Fridays each week.

A unique division of Red Ventures, The Point Guy, is looking for a talented, results-oriented, and innovative Engineering Manager to join our team. Responsible for managing engineering teams and guiding our teams as we scale and support them in continuously delivering business value. In this role, you will be a hands-on player and a coach. You'll need to possess the capability to push your team's abilities to grow them individually and as a unit while also remaining hands-on in developing our applications and tools. Your primary focus is your team and the people in it. We expect you to build a great culture with diversity, inclusion, bias to action, and openness as our core values for the various Travel-related products within the vertical.

In addition to building applications that can hold up to our business's scale & growth, our team of engineers works collaboratively with the business leaders to develop innovative solutions to grow the business. We love to build high-quality software and believe that there is real value in developing software to be easily understood, maintained, and extended. We are all about teamwork, accountability, innovation, and a customer-first approach. We work hard but do so in a collaborative, fun, and flexible work environment.

What you’ll do:

• Business value delivery: Ensure incremental value delivery and high-quality standards for teams you’re working with. Support these teams’ strategic work in collaboration with our Product and Design organization.
• Learning and Development: Attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent. Develop people and teams through coaching, mentoring, and management support. Conduct regular 1:1, goal setting, and feedback conversations with engineers to ensure their well-being and team health and support them in their learning and development. Continuously work to improve inclusion and belonging on your team and within our organization.
• Process and Product: Maintain high levels of transparency, efficiency,  and collaboration in collaboration with other development teams and Product Management.
• Leadership: Advocate and promote leadership at all levels within the Red Ventures engineering organization.
• Organizational work: Help us continuously improve and grow and build further support structures for our teams by driving broader organizational development and cross-cutting initiatives with the rest of our engineering management team.
• Technical work: Help grow the expertise of your teams in performance, reliability, resilience, scalability, maintainable architecture, and experimentation. 

What we’re looking for:

• People development: You have at least three years of experience building and leading software development teams and delivering working software together with them. Your experience includes hiring, as well as having engineers directly reporting to you and supporting them in their growth.
• Technical Expertise: You have a strong ability to develop systems that meet architectural objectives including reusable, scalable code. 
• Our technology stack primarily consists of  Next.js, Typescript,  and Java applications deployed over Kubernetes in AWS. Our mobile applications are natively deployed in SwiftUI. Knowledge of content delivery systems like Wordpress, event-driven architectures and federated APIs are a plus. While it is not a requirement to have worked with all of those languages, frameworks, and services, a desire to learn about them is important.
• Knowledge of and interest in leveraging AI/ML tools to achieve business objectives
• 5+ years of recent server side experience in languages such as Node/TS, Java, C# or similar.
• 3+ years of experience with design, deploy, and manage scalable applications using Kubernetes or similar compute platforms.
• 3+ Years of experience collaborating with DevOps and development teams to influence CI/CD pipelines, deploy automation, scale and manage containerized applications.
• 3+ Years of experience collaborating with designing, implementing, and optimizing our enterprise event-driven systems to enable real-time data processing and integration across the organization.
• 2+ Years of experience enhancing the organization's IT infrastructure by implementing and managing observability solutions.
• Experience designing, developing, and managing APIs across multiple systems within an organization using a federated architecture
• Experience in front-end technologies such as React, Vue, Angular and Polymer
• Delivery: You are knowledgeable about modern software engineering practices and how to apply them in different teams. You believe in agile and lean values. You have a track record of using these methods in practice and continuously delivering business value. 
• Leadership: You are a servant leader, an effective communicator and strong collaborator who emphasizes continuous learning, and you know what it takes to build strong, productive teams. You thrive on developing people and building inclusive teams.
• Learning: You bring action orientation and a drive to continuously improve the teams you work with.
• Communication: You’re an effective communicator and bring strong feedback skills to your teams.

Compensation

• USA Compensation Range: $130,000 - $190,000*
  • New York City Compensation Range: $130,000 - $210,000 
    *Note actual salary is based on geographic location, qualifications, and experience. 

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program

Who We Are

Founded in 2000, Red Ventures (RV) is home to a diverse portfolio of industry-leading brands and businesses, strategic partnerships and proprietary technology – including Bankrate, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, BestColleges and more. Together, RV helps millions of people worldwide make life’s most important decisions, accelerates digital adaptation, and innovates the online consumer experience by improving every step of the consumer journey – from first discovery of information, throughout the decision-making process, to transactions. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures employs thousands of people across the US and Puerto Rico, with international offices in the UK and Brazil. For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms. 

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com. 

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