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Software Engineering Manager – Backend
| Company | Wing |
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| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $161000 – $249000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar degree (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of experience designing and developing backend software
- 2+ years of senior team lead or management experience
- Excellent written and verbal skills and experience working in a collaborative team
- Ability to identify challenging problems and potential solutions with limited guidance, launch and successfully land the solution without any complications
- Experience developing backend systems involving database schema design, and synchronous/asynchronous systems
- Experience developing in C++, or ability to quickly pick up C++ with experience in similar languages like Java, or C#
Responsibilities
- Manage a small engineering team, coaching individuals with an eye on industry best practices
- Build a team culture of support, engagement and quality, ensuring Wing can scale as a business
- Collaborate cross functionally with business partners, product managers, and program managers to design, implement and quickly launch new features for partners and end consumers
- Design and build solutions that utilize asynchronous pipelines, database systems, RPC handlers in collaboration with frontend engineers and other backend engineers, in a privacy and security conscious ecosystem
- Mitigate, root cause and resolve urgent, time sensitive issues, in both familiar and unfamiliar code, as part of an oncall rotation, or other escalations
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
