Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager Weave is looking for an experienced and highly skilled Engineering Manager to lead a talented team of engineers. This role involves providing technical leadership, guiding the team through rapid software development, and ensuring the delivery of impactful solutions. A key responsibility will be fostering the technical and professional growth of team members. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating the "why" behind team priorities and customer impact, while also leading technically challenging projects. Team Info: The Weave Messaging Team stands at the cutting edge of transforming how businesses interact with their clientele. Our dedicated Messaging Teams are committed to equipping businesses with sophisticated, automated communication solutions. This allows businesses to streamline their operations and dedicate their valuable time to crucial tasks, while the robust Weave Messaging System efficiently handles a multitude of communication needs. These include, but are not limited to, sending timely appointment reminders, soliciting valuable customer reviews, and automatically dispatching missed call texts to ensure no lead or customer interaction is ever truly lost. This comprehensive approach empowers businesses to maintain seamless, proactive communication, fostering stronger customer relationships and significantly improving operational efficiency. - This position will be remote. - Reports to: Director of Engineering WHAT YOU WILL OWN The duties and responsibilities of the role. - Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing career coaching and support to help them develop their technical, business, and professional skills. - Foster a customer-centric mindset within the team, ensuring a focus on customer and business outcomes. - Collaborate with other teams to define technical roadmaps and manage cross-functional initiatives. - Communicate effectively with stakeholders, distilling complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team. - Drive the development process and best practices, with a focus on delivering incremental customer value. - Provide clear, actionable project and development advice to your organization. - Ensure the development of scalable and redundant services, leveraging distributed systems and web-scale infrastructure on public cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes). - Demonstrate expertise in the Go Programming Language and a solid understanding of distributed systems. WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THE JOB The minimum qualifications for the role - education, experience, certifications, skills. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. - 6+ years of engineering or related experience, including technical and organizational leadership. - Strong understanding of distributed systems and experience in building scalable and redundant services. - Experience with data and analytical systems such as postgresql, data warehousing, data lakes, embedded analytics, or similar technologies. - Operational experience with web-scale infrastructure on public cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes). - Solid understanding of a backend language (Go, Python, Java, C#, etc.). WHAT WILL MAKE US LOVE YOU Preferred qualifications - including personality traits and soft skills. - Expertise in Go. - Experience with messaging systems, distributed data stores, and NoSQL technologies (e.g., Postgres, Kafka, Google PubSub, Redis, Bigtable, Spanner, S3, Iceberg, etc.). - Strong track record of delivering complex projects on time in enterprise-grade production environments. - Experience using AI tools to accelerate and enhance the software development lifecycle. - Strategic thinker with a technical aptitude and passion for execution. - Background in data analysis and visualization. - Experience with Kubernetes or GKE and the Operator Pattern (G ... (truncated, view full listing at source)