Associate Manager, Product Development

What you will be doing

Technical Leadership and Development

• Architect, develop, and deliver new features in alignment with business goals, technical standards, and long-term product needs.
• Solve complex technical challenges with consideration for scalability, security, maintainability, reusability, and performance.
• Promote strong engineering practices through code reviews, technical guidance, developer tooling, testing patterns, and team-defined standards.
• Take ownership of difficult technical tasks, refactors, blockers, and areas requiring deeper research or cross-team coordination.

Team Leadership and People Development

• Lead a small team of developers through regular management practices, including coaching, feedback, career development, onboarding, and team support.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and opportunities aligned to their skill levels.
• Help set team objectives and create an environment where engineers are unblocked, progressing, and able to do their best work.
• Support team culture through clear communication, collaboration, accountability, and team-building opportunities.

Planning, Delivery, and Coordination

• Own the work assigned to your team, ensuring features, bugs, and support responsibilities are followed through from planning to delivery and post-release support.
• Partner with product managers, QA, developers, and other team leads to plan, estimate, prioritize, and coordinate work.
• Help break down larger features and tasks into manageable pieces that can be completed safely and in a timely manner.
• Lead or support team ceremonies such as planning, standups, retrospectives, and other recurring team meetings.

Technical Experience

• 5+ years' experience in full-stack development using JavaScript, Type Script, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience with front-end libraries such as React.js, Angular, or Vue, with React.js preferred.
• Back-end development experience with Node.js and REST APIs such as Express or Fastify.
• Solid understanding of SQL, including writing queries, migrations, and optimizations.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Redis, event-based communication, job processing, and queuing concepts.

Engineering Judgment

• Proven ability to architect features, plan implementation from start to finish, and make sound technical decisions.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous product requirements and deliver effective solutions that balance business needs, technical standards, and team capacity.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the judgment to know when to research, when to ask questions, and when to move forward.
• A big-picture approach to development, with consideration for long-term product health, security, scalability, and maintainability.

Leadership and Communication

• Experience mentoring developers, supporting engineer growth, and helping others improve through feedback and guidance.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, understand other viewpoints, and receive feedback constructively.
• Ability to coordinate work across multiple roles, keep projects moving, and help unblock engineers.
• Experience helping define, improve, or reinforce team processes, development standards, and best practices.

• Previous experience as a team lead, technical lead, people manager, or mentor for a small development team.
• Experience leading sprint planning, retrospectives, task breakdown, estimation, onboarding, or team development activities.
• Experience partnering with product managers to organize priorities, clarify requirements, and plan delivery.
• Strong understanding of permissioning structures, security analysis, and scalable system design.
• Experience with state management, validation, styling, data communication, or event-based systems such as Redux, MobX, Zustand, Zod, SASS, Tailwind, sockets, Redis, APIs, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with development of AI pipelines, AI endpoints, or agent-supported architecture.

• Health and Wellness:
  Comprehensive health and wellness benefits designed to support your overall well-being.
• Internal Mobility:
  Opportunities for mentorship, continuing education, and focused career goal setting, with 25% of positions filled internally.
• Career Development:
  Free Linked In Learning licenses for everyone, along with our Mentoring Program to boost your personal development.
• Education Support:
  Geographically specific programs to balance the cost of education with the benefits of continued learning and personal development.
• Inclusive Workplace:
  Collaborate with a diverse team in an inclusive, global workplace that fosters innovation and celebrates partnership.
• Work-Life Balance:
  Policies built on mutual trust and support, encouraging time off to rest, recharge, and reconnect.
• Global Mobility:
  Comprehensive support for international relocations and permanent residency processes.

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