Software Engineering Manager

Your Role & Mission As a Software Engineering Manager you will have the critical leadership role of enabling excellence productivity and growth within Apollo's engineering organization. You crave the opportunity for hands-on mentorship and to accelerate not only your career but for those of your team as well. Your responsibility would come in several forms including but not limited to: ● Help the team define set and adhere to goals and expectations ● Drive a culture around excellence learning and fun ● Critically observe and improve development and management processes within Apollo engineering ● Work closely with key stakeholders such as the CTO Product Managers and Designers to deliver high quality software at a rapid pace for an ever-increasing user base ● Change and be a part of key decision-making processes within the engineering organization

Daily Adventures and Responsibilities ● Participation in key technical decision-making discussions such as sprint planning software design and occasionally code reviews ● Help build and scale a world-class engineering team by sourcing and hiring candidates ● Hold systematic weekly 1:1 touch points with engineers to deliver and receive quality feedback ● Work with engineers to develop and execute on personalized goals ● Conduct objective and helpful quarterly performance reviews for engineers

Competencies ● You love scaling up through well-written documents and well-defined processes. As a remote first company documentation is critical to our hyper-growth and success. ● You are compassionate put people first as a mentor and are tactful with both accepting and delivering criticism to others. ● You have the leadership skills to think and execute strategically but are not afraid to get your hands dirty when needed.

Your technical understanding of engineering systems especially related to data is second to none. ● You can relate to and admire Apollo’s values of Ownership Integrity Curiosity Excellence Teamwork and Fun.

Skills and Relevant Experiences

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering industry experience while being technically strong.

• Proven track record of technical leadership. Strong fundamentals in software architecture at scale and cross-team function.

• 1-3 years' experience in people management preferably leading senior & staff engineers.

• Experience in working in fast-paced environments with Scrum/Kanban processes

• Experience with Ruby (optional) and Python (optional) programming.

• Understanding of data privacy.

• Should have experience in developing B2C or B2B products from scratch & understand user experience expectations.

• Ability to work with different stakeholders to deliver a higher impact.

Great to have ● Familiarity with React MongoDB SQL data warehousing and ElasticSearch. ● Experience with data platforms (Snowflake Databricks Airflow Looker etc.). ● Experience with Web scraping.

Our Tech Stack Our tech stack is React/Redux/NextJS on the front end Ruby/Python/MongoDB/ElasticSearch/Redis on the backend and Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform for Infrastructure.