Engineering Manager

Your Role & Mission

As an 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. You will be leading a team of multiple senior and staff level engineers so you need to be technically very strong.
• 3-5 years' experience in people management, preferably leading senior engineers and managers.
• Proven track record of technical leadership. Strong fundamentals in software architecture at scale, effective engineering processes, and cross-team function.
• Experience with Ruby and Python
• Understanding of data privacy and security fundamentals.

Great to have

• Familiarity with React, MongoDB, SQL, data warehousing, and ElasticSearch.
• Experience with data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Looker, etc.).
• Experience within the activation space

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.