Software Development Manager - Web Applications

About Spokeo

Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.

Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends reunite with families and protect against fraud. Additionally our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets research criminal investigation subjects and more.

Founded in 2006 we have grown to a remote-first company of nearly 200 dedicated employees with an average tenure of 4.5 years. Find out why we were named a “Best Company” for 2023 by Comparably for Women Compensation Happiest Employees Company Perks & Benefits and Work-Life Balance as well as “Best CEO” for co-founder Harrison Tang.

About this Opportunity

We are growing our engineering leadership team to further ramp our product velocity enhance the serving and building up of our developers and continue to refine our technical practices and engineering culture. This role Software Development Manager Web Application will report to the Director of Engineering be hands-on in writing code lead scrum teams and continuously champion best practices continuous integration automation and coding standards.

What you'll do:

• Direct management of a set of engineers with opportunities to grow

• Support a management structure that focuses on minimal politics high levels of delegation and autonomy (Note: All managers were engineers at one point)

• Own an area of code and set architectural direction having an impact on Spokeo’s products and its millions of visitors

• Shape our development process and code quality (We release every two weeks and are looking towards continuous deployment)

• Work with technologies such as Ruby on Rails React Node.js CSS Rspec Elasticsearch and SQL

Skills you'll have:

• A Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a similar degree required

• 1+ years managing web application development teams that deliver SAAS or cloud-based offerings for consumers.

• 1+ years of guiding scrum-based teams delivering at-scale products and working with big data sets.

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience (i.e. HTML CSS Javascript/React Node.js MVC/Rails MySQL NoSQL RESTful APIs).

• Passion for and experience with building collaborative teams and high-quality software

• A team-first leadership style

• Excellent project management and communication skills

Working at Spokeo

Our mission is to advance transparency and to achieve that goal we rally around six core values: listening with empathy understanding the why clarifying with data innovating to learn collaborating to achieve and insisting on quality.

As a remote-first company we are able to hire team members residing in the following US states: AZ CA CO FL GA KY MD MI MO NH NJ NV NC PA SC SD TX VA or WA.

In addition to a highly competitive base salary our generous benefits include:

• participation in an individual annual bonus

• stock options

• 401K

• 100% medical/dental/vision coverage

• unlimited PTO

• mental health resources

• paid home office equipment

• fitness reimbursements

• support paying for courses

• and more

We extend written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Offers will depend on several factors including but not limited to marketplace competition job leveling experience and skills.

Privacy Notice for Candidates: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy

Spokeo is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow innovate create the best products and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Note: You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of one’s employment visa at this time.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm who presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current fully executed agreement on file and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.

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