We are looking for a Senior Engineering manager with experiences of leading and mentoring UI engineering team and front-end engineers. You will work with a talented and dedicated team to build and maintain the user interface for the Falcon platform. You will provide a high-quality user experience that our customers around the world use 24/7 to protect their systems from the most sophisticated adversaries. For technical background, our stack is Ember, but if you've led a team using frameworks like React or Angular, you're the kind of person we're looking for and we'll help get you up to speed. As we support only evergreen browsers, we can push the boundaries of whats possible on the web as a platform, on top of a system that strips any hyperbole from the term big data. In close collaboration with analysts & clients youll get to see the apps & visualizations youre building used every day to hunt for hackers and protect systems.Our ideal candidate will be responsible for taking full ownership of the delivery of our products, driving the technical aspects, helping the team to define the architecture and coordinating with stakeholders in terms of scope and priorities.
As an Engineering Manager, youll be responsible for the recruitment, workload management, wellbeing and professional growth of a team of software engineers, helping build an open & collaborative environment and supporting systems to help them succeed in their roles. Youll work closely with your peers in UX and across the broader engineering organization to ensure projects are a success.
What Youll Do:
Build and maintain applications written in the Ember framework.
Participate in the code review process for your own code and that of your fellow UX Engineers
Take initiative and build tools that improve your teams development experience
Drive E2E automation by writing tests for your code.
Manage team workload, project resourcing & coordination in a fast-paced, highly distributed environment.
Support wellbeing of team members - providing support & guidance focused primarily on resourcing, progress, and soft skills. Gather feedback from others, provide coaching as needed & in collaboration with senior developers to advance team member skill sets.
Lead and coordinate recruitment process from initial contact to offer successful onboarding & general administration.
Some travel (project offsites, team get-togethers).
Develop general understanding of cybersecurity domain to best support leads and team members.
Requirements: 5-7 years of engineering manager experiences for front-end development teams.
Proficient in agile/scrum framework with experience of leading scrum teams.
Clear communication, proactive planning and risk management toward team goals.
Experience of developing and mentoring engineering staffs.
A desire to collaborate closely with users, designers, & testers to deliver quality software that solves problems.
A deep understanding of JavaScript and considerable experience building thick-client applications with modern frameworks such as Ember, AngularJS, Backbone or React/Flux.
Experience with testing frameworks, tools and methodologies such as Playwright, QUnit, Mocha & Selenium.
Functional knowledge & interest in developing genuinely accessible interfaces.
Strong HTML & CSS skills, with bonus points for experience with animation, knowledge of approaches to scalable/modular CSS, & preprocessors such as SCSS & LESS.
Familiarity with client-side build processes & tools - Grunt, Gulp, Ember CLI etc
Comfortable with BitBucket, Git/version control workflows.
Bonus Points:
Experience in commercial SaaS product development.
Experience creating or contributing to open-source projects.
Experience with graphics & visualization tools such as D3 or ThreeJS.
Interest & experience with design & data visualization.
Experience with coaxing that last frame-per-second out of browsers.
This position is open to all candidates.