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’re looking for a technical Software Development Manager Web Applications to join our engineering-fueled team. You’ll work with the latest versions of React and Node.js scrum teams and 4B pages to impact! You can also help further define and promote best practices for functional areas continuous integration automation and coding standards.

What you’ll do:

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

• A supportive management structure with minimal politics where delegation and autonomy are valued (all managers were engineers at one point)

• Ownership of an area of code and ability to set architectural direction

• Immediate team impact on spokeo.com and its millions of visitors (we release every two weeks and are looking towards continuous deployment)

• Opportunity to shape our development process and code quality

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

What you’ve done:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• 1+ years managing web application development teams

• 1+ years of guiding scrum-based teams (e.g. scrum master technical head etc.)

• 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 a company bonus program

• stock options

• 401K matching for qualified roles

• 100% medical/dental/vision coverage

• unlimited PTO

• mental health resources

• paid home office equipment

• fitness reimbursements

• support paying for courses

• twice a year we offer discretionary merit-based salary increases

• 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.

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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