Manager of Software Engineering

• Manage and mentor a team of backend engineers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
• Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members
• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code

Benefits

• Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and return-to-work program

• Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and fertility preservation benefits

• Backup child care coverage, center-based care support, & caregiver assistance

• Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account

• Lactation rooms (based on office location) and breastmilk shipping coverage

• Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health

• For Snap, employees taking care of loved ones with complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (i.e. parent with Dementia, spouse with Cancer, child with Autism), your family can save time, money, & stress with Wellthy

• Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance

• Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HDHP with HSA, and HMO options

• Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits

• Vision coverage, including frame and contact allowance and LASIK benefits

• Free membership to One Medical for primary and urgent healthcare services

• Business Travel Insurance

• Gym perks and discounts

• Team fitness classes and races

• Sports leagues

• Cooking and nutritional workshops

• Well-being reimbursement

• Unlimited access to virtual physical therapy with Anthem

• 15 sessions per year of mental health for you + dependents through Lyra

• Generous time off and leave programs. In the US, this includes the following:

• Up to 3 weeks (120 hours) of vacation time and 1 floating holiday for non-exempt team members

• 15 sick and safe days per year

• 12 paid holidays per year

• Social gatherings, team outings, and volunteering programs

• Speaker series, classes, and subscriptions to educational programs

• Meditation and yoga classes

• Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega backdoor option!) Snap will also match 100% up to 3% of your contribution and then 50% on your 4th and 5th%

• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, daycare and commuter

• Health Savings Account with employer contributions

• Rocket Lawyer memberships

• Financial education programs

• Snap exclusive discounts and perks

• Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

• Background with building high availability and mission critical backend systems

• Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks

• Experience building backend infrastructure and shipping user-facing product: you have built platform services other teams depend on, and you have owned features and the metrics they move

• A track record on both sides of the infrastructure and product split: you have built platform or infrastructure that other teams depend on, and you have shipped user-facing features and been accountable for their metrics

• Experience with leading an engineering team

• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices

• Experience with distributed systems and backend service development

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

• 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ years of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience

• 1+ years of experience managing a team or acting as a technical lead

• Experience with geospatial or location-based systems, such as map data pipelines, place and POI data, routing, or spatial indexing

• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments

• Familiarity with driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion

• Experience with Ops-heavy systems/products