Sr. Manager of Community Back End Engineering

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When you work for Glassdoor, you help people everywhere get ahead in work and life. That's because we're moving fast to become the leading community for workplace conversations. Every day, we foster radical transparency by giving professionals a platform to connect authentically and anonymously. Think real talk with real people - plus company reviews and ratings, salary info, job listings and more.

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About the Role :

We are seeking an experienced, passionate and highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager with a strong understanding of backend systems to lead a team of talented backend engineers focused on our Community efforts. In this role, you will guide the development of scalable, high-performance backend services and infrastructure, while fostering a highly collaborative environment across the engineering organization. You will be responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of all Community related services and APIs, as well as mentoring and leading an experienced senior engineering team working with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes.

Interviewing will officially begin in January 2025 for this role.

What You'll Do :

• Lead a team of backend engineers in building and scaling backend services, APIs, and integrations and foster a positive and growth-oriented environment, and you are committed to building and mentoring high-performing teams.
• Own the design, implementation, and operation of backend services using technologies such as NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, and AWS.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, front-end, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs, ensuring they are efficient, secure, and maintainable.
• Oversee the creation of microservices architectures, leveraging cloud services such as AWS, S3, and SQS and be able to help ideate and guide architecture discussions.
• Mentor and guide backend engineers in adopting best practices in code design, testing, and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD).
• Foster a strong engineering culture, promote growth and learning, and lead by example in delivering high-quality solutions
• Ensure effective project planning, resource allocation, and roadmap creation to meet team goals and deliverables and manage complex projects, balancing competing priorities, and delivering results.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand technical needs and align engineering efforts with business priorities.
• Advocate for and cultivate a "One Team" mindset to promote collaboration and cross-team cooperation.

What You'll Bring :

Technical Experience-

Management Experience-

Compensation and benefits

Base salary range

Glassdoor base salaries are targeted to the market 75th percentile for technical roles and the 65th percentile for non-technical roles. In other words, 65-75% of comparable organizations in our industry will pay less.

Annual bonus target

Generous Restricted Stock Units (RSU) :

Health and wellness : 100% employer-paid premiums for employee medical, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability and select well-being programs, along with 80% employer-paid premiums for all dependents.

Work / life balance : Open Paid Time Off policy, in addition to 15-20 paid company holidays / year.

Investing in your future : 401(k) plan with a company match up to $5,000 per year, subsidized fertility & family planning services and discounted legal assistance services.

Our Commitments

Glassdoor is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran or military status or any other category protected under the law. Glassdoor is an equal opportunity employer; committed to creating a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment and retaliation.

Where-to-Work Policy

Being a remote-first company, Glassdoor employees can live anywhere Glassdoor is a registered company. Requests to move must be approved by an employee's manager and the People team. While we will try our best to support relocation requests, some requests may not be approved due to various tax, legal, or other restrictions.

Enjoy Remote and Explore : Employees authorized to work in their current location may Work Away for up to a total of 30 (thirty) working days in a calendar year without permanent relocation and compensation change. Employees on visas may work Work Away for up to a total of 20 (twenty) working days in a calendar year without permanent relocation and compensation change. The amount of time and location for Work Away must be approved by the employee's manager and People Operations team at least two (2) weeks in advance of travel.

Salary : $168,100 - $223,300