urbancompass

urbancompass

Engineering Manager

Manhattan, New York, United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$194k-$215kDetected 1 day ago
Code ReviewCI/CDData EngineeringAgileCRMTest AutomationLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • If you are a collaborative leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about solving real business problems with cutting-edge software solutions, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Execution: Own the day-to-day agile development processes of your engineering squad. Successfully prioritize deliverables, manage sprint planning, and resolve blockers to maintain high team velocity.
  • Partner with Product & Business Stakeholders: Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and corporate departments to deeply understand user workflows, translating ambiguous operational requests into clear, structured, and phased technical specifications.
  • Manage Operational Metrics: Monitor and optimize application performance, reliability, and scale, ensuring your team's systems are robust and highly available.
  • Bridge Communication Gaps: Drive clear and concise business and technical discussions, writing high-quality project plans, technical specifications, and postmortems to keep both engineering and non-technical partners aligned.
  • Lead Execution: Own the day-to-day agile development processes of your engineering squad.
  • Successfully prioritize deliverables, manage sprint planning, and resolve blockers to maintain high team velocity.
  • Own the day-to-day agile development processes of your engineering squad.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and corporate departments to deeply understand user workflows, translating ambiguous operational requests into clear, structured, and phased technical specifications.
  • Monitor and optimize application performance, reliability, and scale, ensuring your team's systems are robust and highly available.
  • Drive clear and concise business and technical discussions, writing high-quality project plans, technical specifications, and postmortems to keep both engineering and non-technical partners aligned.

Requirements

  • People Management Experience: 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, with a proven track record of hiring, developing, and motivating engineering talent.
  • Strong Communication & Stakeholder Empathy: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear business terms for stakeholders.
  • 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, with a proven track record of hiring, developing, and motivating engineering talent.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear business terms for stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • and pet insurance.

Skills

  • Our Key Domains
  • Compensation
  • Base pay is based on market location.
  • Minimum wage for the position will always be met.
  • Perks that You Need to Know About:
  • Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
  • Do your best work, be your authentic self.
  • Notice for California Applicants
  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice
  • Engineering Manager

Compensation

  • The base pay range for this position is $194,000 - $215,000
  • however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits.
  • Base pay is based on market location.
  • Minimum wage for the position will always be met.
  • Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave

Benefits

  • Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility.
  • You will manage a lean, agile, and high-performing squad consisting of core full-time Compass engineers and a flexible pool of strategic contractors.
  • medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits
  • flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Company info

  • Solid understanding of data security concepts, specifically managing secure IAM permissions, protecting data privacy, and shielding PII.
  • We are looking for leaders to head engineering teams within the following business areas:
  • At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world - a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive.

Equal opportunity

  • As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.
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