Software Engineering Manager

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Job Description

Hybrid 3x a week- NYC

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Team | The Team and/or Brand.

People Inc. is a leading digital media company that owns and operates a portfolio of highly respected brands across various brands, including Allrecipes, BHG, MyRecipes, Food & Wine and more. With a commitment to providing high-quality content and innovative digital experiences, People Inc reaches millions of users globally and continues to drive growth and engagement across its platforms. 

People Inc. is looking for a Software Engineering Manager focused on front-end development with a demonstrated track record of mentorship, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment to support and expand the search and recommendation services across the Home and Food brands.

As the technology leader on your scrum team, you will be responsible for helping to set technical direction, realizing your ideas in code, and collaborating with other groups within the organization.
 

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:

Experience:

• Manage and mentor front-end developers on your team, to grow their skills and prepare them for increased responsibility.

• Prototype and develop responsive and elegant cross-platform functionality on a custom server-side component framework, built on Java but leveraging SCSS, Freemarker templates, and ES6 on the front-end, with VueJS increasingly used for more interactive components.

• Contribute to / maintain People Inc.’s commitment to highly performant sites.

• Research new technologies to solve problems and improve existing systems.

• Lead discussions about project architecture and technical feasibility, make decisions, and justify your development approach.

• Work in close collaboration with the business and product stakeholders to launch new features while maintaining engineering standards.

• Organize, track and lead the paying down of technical debt.

• Develop Looker Views and Models to democratize access to data products.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, ML, Backend) to scope and build ML-powered UI experiences.

• Create and manage ML ops workflows or ML infrastructure

• Experience with ingesting raw data with Fivetran and Python and surface in BigQuery for the productional use.

• Own technical decisions involving front-end performance, architecture, and reliability.

• Guide and support Elasticsearch integration for user-facing search functionality.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• 7+ years in a front-end or full stack web development position. 

• 3+ years managing engineers.

• High levels of skill with HTML, CSS, SCSS, and vanilla Javascript; significant experience with one or more other languages.

• Significant experience with at least one server-side templating language - think JSP, Twig, Python or Handlebar. Alternatively, experience working with a component-based web framework, particularly one with a server-side templating aspect (e.g., Vue+Nuxt). 

• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar search tools.

• You have commendable experience with at least one cloud service platform (GCP and AWS preferred).

• You've worked with data at scale using Apache Spark, Beam or a similar framework.

• You're familiar with data streaming architectures using technologies like Pub/Sub and Apache Kafka.

• Experience and knowledge of web performance standards and Google’s Core Web Vitals.

• Proven track record of working with 3rd party APIs and integrating them into web applications.

• The ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly requirements – and vice versa.

• Comfortable using the tools of modern collaborative Agile+Scrum SDLC, including Git, Jira, etc

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing hr@people.inc.

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.