Software Engineering Manager

Overview

People Inc. is a leading digital media company that owns and operates a portfolio of brands across All recipes, BHG, MyRecipes, Food & Wine and more. The company reaches millions of users globally and drives growth and engagement across its platforms.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager focused on front-end development with a track record of mentorship, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment to support and expand the search and recommendation services across the Home and Food brands. The role is hybrid in New York City, requiring in-office presence 3 days per week with the ability to work remotely up to 2 days per week.

• Manage and mentor front-end developers on your team, to grow their skills and prepare them for increased responsibility.
• Prototype and develop responsive and elegant cross-platform functionality on a custom server-side component framework, built on Java but leveraging SCSS, Freemarker templates, and ES6 on the front-end, with VueJS increasingly used for more interactive components.
• Contribute to / maintain People Inc.’s commitment to highly performant sites.
• Research new technologies to solve problems and improve existing systems.
• Lead discussions about project architecture and technical feasibility, make decisions, and justify your development approach.
• Work in close collaboration with business and product stakeholders to launch new features while maintaining engineering standards.
• Organize, track and lead the paying down of technical debt.
• Develop Looker Views and Models to democratize access to data products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, ML, Backend) to scope and build ML-powered UI experiences.
• Create and manage ML ops workflows or ML infrastructure.
• Experience with ingesting raw data with Fivetran and Python and surface in Big Query for production use.
• Own technical decisions involving front-end performance, architecture, and reliability.
• Guide and support Elasticsearch integration for user-facing search functionality.

• 7+ years in a front-end or full stack web development position.
• 3+ years managing engineers.
• High levels of skill with HTML, CSS, SCSS, and vanilla JavaScript; significant experience with one or more other languages.
• Significant experience with at least one server-side templating language (e.g., JSP, Twig, Python or Handlebars) or experience with a component-based web framework with a server-side templating aspect (e.g., Vue+Nuxt).
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar search tools.
• Experience with at least one cloud service platform (GCP and AWS preferred).
• Experience with data at scale using Apache Spark, Beam or a similar framework.
• Familiarity with data streaming architectures using Pub/Sub and Apache Kafka.
• Knowledge of web performance standards and Google Core Web Vitals.
• Proven track record of integrating 3rd party APIs into web applications.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly requirements – and vice versa.
• Comfortable using modern collaborative Agile+Scrum SDLC tools such as Git and Jira.

Pay Range:
Salary for New York: $180,000 - $200,000. The range represents the anticipated low and high end and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary based on location, experience, and performance. The range is one component of People Inc.’s total compensation package, which may include bonuses and other incentives. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited PTO, parental leave, 401K with company match, and additional voluntary benefits.

Benefits vary by employment location.

EEO notice:
It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are provided for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing hr at people dot inc. The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program. For more information about E-Verify, please visit the E-Verify website.