Engineering Manager

About Us:

Headquartered in beautiful Santa Barbara, HG Insights is the global leader in technology intelligence. HG Insights uses advanced data science methodologies to help the world’s largest technology firms and the fastest growing companies accelerate their sales, marketing, and strategy efforts. 

We offer a competitive salary, 401K, growth potential, great benefits, and a casual yet professional environment. Get your sweat on at one of our fitness classes or go for a run along the beach which is two blocks away. You can find employees riding bikes to lunch in the funk zone or hanging out in one of our collaboration spaces. We are passionate about our jobs with a get-it-done attitude, yet we don’t take ourselves too seriously. While we work very hard, we also enjoy all that the Santa Barbara coast has to offer.

What You'll Do:

If you’re an experienced engineering leader who's passionate about developing products that are simple, intuitive, and beautiful you will want to keep reading. This is a hands-on role and requires modern SaaS, API, and Big Data experience particularly working with enterprise applications for B2B.

We are a rapid growing company with small, focused engineering teams who are delivering innovative features in a fast-growing market. We build big-data systems utilizing cutting edge technologies and solutions that allow for our developers to learn and develop while shipping amazing products.

You will be responsible for leading one of our customer-facing product development teams. You will be working with both onshore and offshore developers.

What You'll Be Responsible For:

• You will collaborate with the Product team, CTO, VP of Engineering, and Director of QA, as well as other engineering teams to build scalable solutions at a fast pace.
• You will enable, empower, and mentor individuals with the goal of making the team successful.
• You will lead highly technical teams to develop products that are used by internal teams and external customers.
• Attend stand-up meetings, planning sessions, encourage others, and collaborate at a rapid pace.

What You’ll Need:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Math, or related technical discipline
• Proficiency in Elixir, Java, or Ruby, and JavaScript
• Understand RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Understand best-practice UI / UX design
• Comfortable in an agile development environment
• 5+ years programming, 2+ years in a leadership role
• Experience leading highly technical teams
• Managers at HG serve the team and must be good coaches that can effectively clear blocks and inspire their teams
• Experience mentoring and leading individuals’ career development
• A proven track record of collaborating with product teams and other engineering teams, outside of your management responsibility.
• Understand modern CI/CD.
• Experience with Docker or similar container technologies
• Must be a proponent of quality.
• Solid SDLC knowledge, preferably Agile Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience deploying and managing applications hosted in AWS.
• A Solid understanding of APIs & Microservices, SaaS, and at least one horizontally scaling Big Data technology.
• Experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework (React, Vue, Angular)
• Thrive in a fast growing environment
• Excellent written and spoken English communication

  This role is a hybrid role that can work remotely, in our Santa Barbara office, or a combination of both.

Our Santa Barbara office is open! We are following all local and state guidelines while in office. Employee safety is of utmost importance, and we are taking all necessary precautions. For more information on how we are doing this, please speak with one of our HR team members. Full vaccination against COVID-19 is required unless you qualify for a federally protected exemption.

HG Insights Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

Please note that HG Insights does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of HG Insights