Engineering Manager

Department Overview

WDTech is W&D’s in-house technology team – a diverse group of energetic and highly skilled technology professionals, all of whom are leading experts in real estate data, data science, and technology.

WDTech Engineering builds solutions that impact not only our products but also the people and processes across our organization. A commitment to innovation and a passion for disrupting the old-fashioned real estate industry are our highest priorities.

The Impact You Will Have

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join our engineering team to help build and launch an exciting new product.

As an Engineering Manager you will manage all technical aspects of software development, including planning, designing, leading and executing technical solutions and improvements. You will do this by working closely with Product Manager to break down product features into technical requirements, providing estimates, leading agile rituals in the team and also as a senior individual contributor.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of Frontend, Backend/API and Quality Assurance engineers to deliver against teams' objectives and milestones.

• Actively participate in the full software development lifecycle from ideation and planning through to development, testing, customer feedback and further iterations.

• Proactively suggest improvements across the whole stack.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Data Scientists to expose data through the web application.

• Build and maintain our backend tech stack of Python, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Kafka.

• Provide architectural and design direction, control technical debt, promote collaboration and engagement in the product team.

• Work closely with other Engineering Managers on cross team topics such as continuous deployment, improving our testing and monitoring, front end user logging, etc.

• Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Experience

• 6 or more years of software development experience, with at least 2 years in leadership roles;

• Bachelor’s or master’s, preferably in computer science or related field

• Experience developing public APIs with OpenAPI specifications and service-level contracts

• Experience working with map and location libraries (eg. Mapbox)

• Experience with coaching, mentoring and growing team members.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services, event driven architecture, building client facing data applications, and in the real-estate, domain is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of modern front-end technologies and web development fundamentals

• Deep knowledge of testing at all levels, from unit testing to end-to-end

• Deep knowledge of Python (3.5 and later)

• Strong agile mindset, able to iterate fast and give early feedback

• On top of technical abilities, excellent leadership, decision making and strong communication skills in verbal and written English

• Ability to show ownership of your work, take on challenges and acknowledge growth opportunities, and demonstrate patience when learning new processes

• Courtesy, respect, and thoughtfulness in teaming with colleagues and other stakeholders

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