Ruby Engineering Manager

As a Ruby Engineering Manager in the Dealer Technologies group, you will lead a team that primarily focuses on designing and building dealership websites that have both public facing and internal dealership focused components, with various 3rd party marketplace integrations to promote vehicle inventories. You will be responsible for the strength of the engineering team and the stewardship of the code and technology that is used to implement the product.

The former involves promoting a holistic product view, fostering teamwork, coaching interpersonal skills, and hiring and evaluating team members. The latter will have you developing engineers’ skills in the tooling we use as well as team and department patterns and practices. At times the manager will also identify areas where tradeoffs need to be made between various concerns (e.g., timelines, quality, complexity, performance) and facilitate the effort to reach an agreement on the right approach.

To accomplish all of this, the manager must, themselves, have strong technical and interpersonal skills.

Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us!

• Guide staff in understanding and delivering on the company’s long-term goals by:
  • Working with your manager to develop a deep and nuanced understanding of the company’s goals and, working with staff, develop quarterly plans to implement associated features.
  • Effectively and continually communicate and keep salient the vision, strategy, and roadmap. Be able to discuss how each team member’s work is contributing to those ends.
  • Participating in the feasibility assessment of new features, the cost to implement them, and the possible implementation timelines given current priorities and staffing.
  • Ensuring your services protect and appropriately manage the company’s data and user’s privacy.
• Influence and support the maturation of engineers and engineering practices by:
  • Educating engineers of our standards, practices, and idioms and ensuring adherence to them. This will require you to have a deep knowledge of these things as well as the reasoning behind them.
  • Educating engineers on, and evaluating code for, quality. This includes things like auditability, deployment practices, documentation requirements, evolvability, maintainability, performance monitoring, operational readiness, testing regimes, security evaluation, and risk mitigation.
  • Coach engineers on effective ways to share knowledge within and between teams. This includes effectively communicating with other groups regarding your work upon which they depend.
  • Coaching engineers on the art of identifying and evaluating the many tradeoffs that come up during system development. For example, between feature-rich frameworks and in-the-moment supportability, or between user experience and security consideration.
• Develop a healthy and dynamic team that values and participates in the growth of individuals, the team, and the company by:
  • Recruiting, hiring, and maintaining staff that bring in diverse thoughts. This includes providing timely, candid, and respectful feedback on the staff’s accomplishments and misses.
  • Running an onboarding and career progression curriculum that helps guide individuals in developing their skills through deliberate practice, self-mediated learning, and mentorship.
  • Coaching engineers on the application of psychological and sociological topics like trust, perspective taking, critical thinking, path dependence, emotional contagion, and deliberate practice.
  • Maintaining a workload that balances new feature development, beneficial technical and process improvements, and staff’s learning and development.
  • Tracking, reporting on, and responding to qualitative and quantitative measures of team health and capacity.
• Facilitate the collaboration within your teams and between your teams and the rest of the company by:
  • Collaborating closely with functionally-related teams, product/module owners, technical product managers, and operations to help communicate status and make the best engineering decisions.
  • Coaching team members on effective cross-team communication.
• Monitor and improve the operational and financial sustainability of your services by:
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