Position Purpose:

Orange Apron Media empowers brands to connect with our vast customer base, driving impactful marketing campaigns and generating substantial revenue. We are seeking a passionate and results-driven Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow our core platform, propelling us to the next level of success.

As a Software Engineer Manager, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. You will ensure to build a scalable, robust, and reliable core platform that delivers exceptional performance and user experience.

In addition, you will be given the chance to grow your management experience by contributing to The Home Depot's Orange Apron Media strategy and roadmap.

Key Focus areas:   

• Platform Modernization & Scalability:  Continuously iterate and modernize the platform to support increasing ad load and scale. This includes architecture improvements, performance optimization, and adoption of cutting-edge technologies.

• NextGen Platform Development:  Establish the foundation for a next-generation platform that will power our future growth, actively participate in defining the architecture, features, and functionalities.

• Support & Maintenance:  Lead a dedicated support team responsible for ensuring smooth operation and timely resolution of issues across in core platform

• Transparency & Performance Monitoring:  Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs, providing clear visibility into platform performance and proactively addressing any deviations from set standards.

• Talent Development & Leadership:  Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of highly skilled engineers, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented environment.

• Strategic Planning & Roadmap Development:  Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the NextGen platform 2.0, aiming to achieve at least 2x growth in key metrics.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Delivery & Execution:

• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions

• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met

• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases

• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms

• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment

• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise

• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise

• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% Support & Enablement:

• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams

• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams

• Provides application support for software running in production

• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% People:

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers

• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team

• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback

• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests

• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices

• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams

• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% Learning:

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience.

• Experience working with Retail Media Networks

• Experience in building and supporting an AdTech platform and delivering capabilities including DSP, SSP, and Ad Servers, for self-service advertising needs

• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as GCP or AWS or Azure, including serverless computing, containerization, and microservices.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

• Proven ability to effectively manage and lead a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented culture.

• Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting.

• Ability to translate high level strategy to tactical execution

• Mastery in stakeholder and vendor relationship management

• Mastery in delivery management and sustainable/reliable system delivery

• Proficient in modern product development processes and pipelines

• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques

• Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques

• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs

• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals

• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals

• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences

• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals

• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives

• Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action

• Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear

• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics

• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

The application window is anticipated to be closed on October 23, 2024

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Apply End Date: 12/13/2024

• $140,000.00 - $240,000.00