What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Manager position at Wing?
About Wing :
Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing's fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on three continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. To do this, we must build a workforce that's representative of the global communities that we serve. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.
About the Role :
Wing is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Commerce Engineering team. This role will be based in Palo Alto, CA .
In Commerce, our mission is to get Wing's drone delivery into the hands of partners and customers. Our team builds APIs and tools, enabling Wing drone delivery for businesses. We build safe, reliable, and scalable systems, with a detail oriented mindset, delivering a customer first experience.
This position seeks highly-motivated individuals who enjoy working in a highly dynamic and collaborative team environment. The successful candidate is able to effectively split their time between their technical contributions, including cross functional collaboration, cutting through ambiguity, and designing and building complex systems, and team management, coaching and advocating for their team. We're looking for people who are intrinsically driven to collaborate on hard problems, drive simple solutions, and take pride in their team's work.
What You'll Do :
- Manage a small engineering team, coaching individuals with an eye on industry best practices
- Build a team culture of support, engagement and quality, ensuring Wing can scale as a business
- Collaborate cross functionally with business partners, product managers, and program managers to design, implement and quickly launch new features for partners and end consumers
- Design and build solutions that utilize asynchronous pipelines, database systems, RPC handlers in collaboration with frontend engineers and other backend engineers, in a privacy and security conscious ecosystem
- Mitigate, root cause and resolve urgent, time sensitive issues, in both familiar and unfamiliar code, as part of an oncall rotation, or other escalations
What You'll Need :
The US base salary range for this full-time position is the salary range below bonus equity benefits. Wing's salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
Salary Range
161,000-$241,000 USD
Salary : $161,000 - $241,000
