Manager of Software Engineering

Join Snap as a Software Engineering Manager, where you'll lead and mentor a team of developers in a fast-paced environment. You'll set the strategy, build a roadmap, and collaborate with various teams and executive stakeholders. You'll also evaluate technical tradeoffs and be a strong technical mentor. The position offers a range of benefits, including generous parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, and a 401(k) plan.

• Manage and mentor a team of developers, set the strategy, build a roadmap, and lead the team to deliver.
• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science, and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful project execution.
• 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.
• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
• Experience with leading an engineering team
• 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
• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices
• Background with building high availability and mission critical systems
• Experience with distributed systems and web development
• 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year 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
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
• Familiarity with the driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion
• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience with Ops-heavy systems/products