Front End Engineering Manager

Job Description

Bluecore is a marketing technology company that’s reimagining how the world’s fastest-growing retail brands transform casual shoppers into lifetime customers. Through our patented retail data model and the recent release of Bluecore CommunicateTM and Bluecore SiteTM, we replace manual processes with an intelligent, AI-driven workflow. We are credited with doubling email revenue, and growing customer retention for more than 400 brands, including Express, Tommy Hilfiger, The North Face, Teleflora, and Bass Pro Shops. We have been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor and ranked No. 241 on the Inc. 500 List, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to further develop our product offering. As a leader of the front end engineering team, you will be responsible for recruiting and developing the engineers, processes, and technology to continue our market-leading innovation. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background and a track record of working with teams solving problems with simple solutions. We are looking for people who are just as excited about scaling technical solutions as they are about scaling people and organizations. We see technology as a means to solving problems and getting things done and thus prioritize talent over existing skill sets. Our Engineering Managers are people who view their roles as supporting the team rather than running it. We use Google Cloud Platform services including Kubernetes, BigQuery, PubSub and Cloud SQL. Our stack consists primarily of Python and Golang on the backend and TypeScript (React) on the frontend. Our culture emphasizes making good tradeoffs, team ownership of innovation and operations, and working as a team, and leaving your ego at the door.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to develop new user-facing features
• Develop a team of engineers through 1-1 career coaching, mentoring, and management support
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineering teams, data scientists, product owners, and stakeholders to solve interesting and challenging problems across our marketing platform
• Advising on best practices for designing and architecting scalable solutions, including design reviews, code reviews, and onboarding new technologies-
• Grow the technical expertise of your team around quality, scalability, and performance
• Work closely with the recruitment team to hire and onboard engineers
• Foster an excellent work environment and fast-paced engineering culture of continuous improvement

Requirement

• 10-12 years of experience.Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web mark up, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, Knockout JS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, Durandal JS, etc.}}
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as {{Git / Mercurial/ SVN}}Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance

We are proud of the culture of flexibility, inclusivity and trust that we have built around our workforce. We are a remote first organization with the option to potentially work in our New York headquarters on occasion moving forward. We love the opportunity to come together – but employees will always have the option on where they work best. At Bluecore we believe in encouraging an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, demonstrate their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences. Bluecore is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fair hiring practices and to building a welcoming environment for all team members. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, familial status or veteran status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Apply for this job