What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager position at Switchboard Public Benefit Corp?
During the 2024 election cycle, Switchboard worked with over 2,700 campaigns and organizations from school board to federal races, strengthening Democratic digital fundraising and organizing programs up and down the ballot. In addition to the automated messaging platform that we launched in 2021, through which organizations have sent billions of messages, we've continued to build out an integrated suite of tools, including an emailer, forms builder, and fundraising analytics dashboards, with the goal of bringing together coordination across outreach channels, powerful analytics, and an easy-to-use platform. As we approach this next cycle, our work will include prototyping new products to add to this suite of tools, new feature development on texting and email as user needs evolve, increasing our data offering to help customers integrate Switchboard data with other platforms, and more.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll play an important role in leading a team of engineers as we head into the next political cycle. While you'll have the opportunity to jump into the code yourself and help in the execution of projects, the majority of your time will be spent as a people manager managing engineers directly - helping them increase their impact by creating an environment where they can thrive, providing mentorship and guidance, developing their skillsets, fostering a culture of feedback, setting the right expectations and holding them accountable. You'll also work cross-functionally with product, design, data, and operations to help prioritize projects and make sure we have the right resources behind them, providing a technical voice as we plan and execute on projects.
Responsibilities Include :
- Managing engineers to help them increase their impact over time. This includes providing mentorship and guidance, developing their skillsets, fostering a culture of feedback, setting the right expectations and holding them accountable.
- Collaborate with team members to drive engineering initiatives that have an impact at an organizational level.
- Collaborate with people across the company (in product, design, data, and operations) to help prioritize projects and make sure we have the right engineering resources staffed to them.
- Design and build backend infrastructure to support evolving data models and integrations with third-party products.
- Develop web applications to support the needs of campaign staffers, sometimes deploying existing open source projects and other times developing new tools from scratch.
- Help establish and contribute to a positive engineering culture, with best practices around testing, code quality, security, and automation to help reduce errors and maintenance costs.
Ideal Candidates :
Compensation
Diversity
We believe the best products and companies are built by diverse teams where everyone's perspectives are heard and respected. We strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQ , women, and members of other underrepresented groups to apply. Even if you're not sure if the role is a good fit, please apply! We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in the hiring process and on the job.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the US. We're unable to sponsor work visas at this time.
Salary : $190,000 - $225,000
