What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager- Backend position at Grubhub?
Grubhub is seeking a Backend Engineering Manager to join our team. You will play a key role in translating business objectives into technical plans, monitoring system performance, and driving improvements that contribute to both user satisfaction and business success. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in growing and mentoring your team, attracting top engineering talent, and ensuring that our systems remain at the forefront of industry standards.
The Impact You Will Make
- Manage a team of software engineers, including providing guidance on their career progression, planning, and continually challenging them to raise the bar.
- Communicate with stakeholders, product owners, other technologists, and users to create software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities.
- Be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, monitoring the performance of the application and the platform.
- Evaluate tools, technologies, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members.
- Ensure that your team maintains a high bar for quality and follows established engineering and operational guidelines.
- Facilitate your team's agile operations by overseeing all sprints and manage the team backlog.
- Participate in future product direction, drive technology strategy and execution.
- Create a backlog of Tech Debts / Features, suggesting areas of improvement and ensuring short-term decisions don't build into long-term problems.
What You Bring To The Table
And Of Course, Perks!
The base salary ranges for this position are below.
Chicago : $196,000-$294,000 base salary range.
Grubhub uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.
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Salary : $196,000 - $294,000
