Job TitleManager, Software Engineering

Job DescriptionCompany
For over 20 years we have connected people with their passions, products with engaged customers, and our multi-channel clients-including some of the world's largest consumer brands-with innovative marketing programs.

We believe great technology empowers organizations. At Synapse, we're using technology to reinvent subscription and consumer relationships, and building creative products that impact millions of people.
Opportunity for Impact
* If you are obsessed and excited about providing top quality business critical services, then this is the role for you!
* You'll lead an exceptional group of seven engineers working with a wide array of technologies to drive our Order Management, Merchant Processing, Customer Notification, and Fulfillment systems which are core to the success of our business.
* This is a mature organization operating at large scale that is also in the midst of a transformation. You'll be able to have an impact throughout the organization by advocating for and implementing meaningful change.
Role and Responsibilities (What You'll Do)
* Leverage your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results - focusing on creating value, continuous improvement and collaboration
* Partner with engineers, product and project managers to define the team's vision, strategy and roadmap
* Strive to thoroughly understand customer, business and user needs, and provide effective solutions to meet those needs
* Dive deep into tech, driving architecture, design, and best practices via hands-on contributions to the code and coaching
* Build real and effective partnerships between your teams and others throughout the company
* Maintain excellent software development processes including Agile best practices and proactive triage, backlog grooming, estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives
* Hire, coach, enable, and retain an exceptional group of engineers
Professional Qualifications (What You Have)
* You have a minimum of 4 years of hands-on software development experience
* You have a minimum of 2 years of management and leadership experience
* You have led high performing engineering teams before, including both onshore and offshore
* You love developing and growing people and have demonstrated the ability to do so
* You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
* You care deeply about customers, architecture, design and quality
* You know many of these technologies and are eager to learn the rest quickly - Java, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy / Grails, AWS (EC2, Fargate, SNS/SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, ELB/ALB, etc.), messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ, event-driven architecture, Oracle - PL/SQL, high-volume transactional systems, caching strategies, Elasticsearch, CI/CD tools / process, monitoring tools such as New Relic, ksh
* You have previous experience delivering products in an Agile environment (Scrum / Kanban)
* B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience)
Personal Characteristics (Who You Are)
* Highly effective at creating collaborative relationships across an entire organization
* High energy and action-oriented with a history of getting things done in complex environments
* Results oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches
* Both accepting of other people's ideas and confident in your own
* Values integrity, humility, creativity, confidence, open-mindedness, reliability, collaboration

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