by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Director, Frontend Engineering
Location: Remote US Canada
Type: Full-Time
Workplace: remote
JobDescription:
At Scribd (pronounced scribbed ), we believe reading is more important than ever. Join our cast of characters as we work to change the way the world reads by building the world’s largest and most fascinating digital library: giving subscribers access to a growing collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, documents, Scribd Originals, and more. In addition to works from major publishers and top authors, our community includes over 1.9 M subscribers in nearly every country worldwide.
Have you heard about our future of work program, Scribd Flex? As a key principle, we embrace flexibility and allow employees, in partnership with their manager, to choose the work-style that best suits their individual needs and preferences. And, we create intentional in-person moments with each other that build culture and connection.
About the team and role
The Frontend engineers at Scribd are building cutting edge web applications that are used by 100M+ monthly unique visitors and drive the majority of the revenue growth for Scribd. We are doing that while modernizing our tech stack and improving our user experience. The charter for this team includes most of the customer facing web apps such as onboarding, consumption, account management, and SEO.
We carefully deliver new features via experiments, also known as A/B tests, giving developers a safe path to validate improvements at our tremendous scale. Going forward, we are going to increase the number, velocity, and diversity of our experiments; To accommodate these new and different experiments, our codebase must be nimble, cohesive and easy to deploy. We strongly believe in building a solid infrastructure to help our product vision and maintain the health of the code base. We are working on moving our architecture to Next.js based React SPAs that are independently deployed, talking to a new GraphQL API, while building the tooling for a modern developer experience. Code size, speed, and aesthetics play a major role in our success.
We are looking for a passionate, innovative and strategic frontend technology leader to head this team. This role provides a tremendous opportunity to collaborate across the organization and deliver meaningful improvements for our customers while also modernizing our tech stack.
About you
- You have experience managing large scale frontend teams.
- You have experience with architectural migrations and tech debt reduction efforts.
- You are a great manager and team builder.
- You have experience mentoring and helping cultivate emerging leaders.
- You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- You are deep technically and can mentor and guide all levels of engineers.
- You’re self-directed towards generating outcomes vs output.
- You care about building highly efficient teams that can move fast, learn & iterate quickly.
You will / Responsibilities / What you will do
- Lead the overall planning, development, and deployment for backend systems that power our web applications.
- Mentor & grow a 15+ distributed, diverse engineering team which also includes managers.
- Define and drive architectural strategy to enable a world class customer experience that includes quality, scalability, and resilience as default characteristics.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams including product management, design, performance marketing, business analytics and others throughout the business to build a clear vision & prioritized roadmap for the frontend organization.
- Formulate and execute process and organizational improvements to enhance overall effectiveness & velocity.
- Define how we approach engineering scale & technical debt reductions, driving for speed and efficiency in our development processes.
- Determine OKRs, project planning and resource requirements to accomplish projects and support users.
- Help identify issues and blockers that may delay the launch or impede the success of projects or capabilities and work with partners to communicate effectively, assess alternatives, and take action to resolve.
- Manage engineering morale, retention, culture, and performance.
- Provide career development, coaching, mentorship and sponsorship, and cultivate emerging leaders.
You Have / We’re looking for / Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience building and delivering software products.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience running frontend web teams and experience managing managers for at least 2 years.
- Strong record of thriving in a customer-obsessed product development environment with evidence of helping to define and influence overall product strategy.
- Experience in building modern Frontend Single Page Apps with technologies such as React, Next.js, and GraphQL.
- An exceptional understanding of technology best practices, application security, and history of making tradeoffs based on current needs.
- Proven track record of scaling a team in high-growth companies, not just in number of team members but also in developing team member capabilities and skills.
- History of building accountability and success by setting measurable goals and metrics for your teams.
- Ability to set strategic direction in working with senior executives, but also loves getting your hands dirty executing with the team.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing, high-growth environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, prioritize and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset and approach to problem solving.
Ideally, you have / Bonus points
- Experience in rearchitecting legacy systems and large scale technology modernizations. Experience in subscription business models or loyalty systems.
- At Scribd, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States. In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $164,500 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $260,250 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].
- In the United States, outside California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $144,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $260,250 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].
- We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer – US Remote
Location: United States – Remote
Type: Full-time
Workplace: remote
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer who can navigate complex threat scenarios and remain committed to decreasing the overall attack surface of the company. Infrastructure Vulnerability Management remains a top priority at Guidewire, and you will be responsible for implementing and managing enterprise vulnerability tools and processes in a cloud environment, to reduce technical and business risks due to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This includes identifying and evaluating vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and supporting remediation activities.
Responsibilities
- Management, operation, and enhancement of vulnerability management, cloud posture management and container security tools.
- Provide security guidance to Cloud Engineering teams encompassing perimeter, misconfigurations, asset visibility, policies, container, patching cadence, and vulnerability scanning. Partner with cloud architecture, engineering and application development teams to establish and maintain comprehensive visibility into potential risk events across a large scale cloud environment.
- Improve and mature vulnerability reporting to key stakeholders, and drive remediation efforts by communicating, clearly articulating, and prioritizing risk and impact to all stakeholders to convey the urgency and need to remediate a vulnerability/misconfiguration.
- Develop processes and automation by engaging with stakeholders to harden and deploy AMI and docker container images.
- Stay abreast of emerging threats, and promote understanding of associated risk with stakeholders by reviewing and analyzing vulnerability data to identify trends and patterns.
- Supporting compliance and risk management activities, recommending security controls and corrective actions to mitigate vulnerability risks.
- Partner with the leadership team to report program roadmap status, define Key Risk Indicators and automated dashboards presenting risks and KPIs.
Requirements
- Knowledge of vulnerability scoring systems and prioritization techniques (CVSS, EPSS, SSVC, etc.)
- Experience with cloud specific tooling such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) and Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
- Thorough understanding of enterprise security controls, cloud security, network protocols and operating system (Windows/Linux/MAC).
- Familiar with best practices in securing Kubernetes and have a firm grasp on the challenges and solutions around securing containers and K8 clusters.
- Hands-on experience handling vulnerability management operations for cloud workloads at scale in AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Ability to conduct thorough analysis, automate redundant processes using scripting languages (Python or similar languages) and recommend data driven actions.
- Results-oriented, high energy, self-motivated and love for a team environment.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Manager of Solutions Engineering
Locations: Remote – USA
Time Type: Full time
Job Requisition Id: R4790
The expected salary range for this position is $115,600.00 – $144,500.00. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.
This leader provides management and oversight to the solutions engineering team to manage the lifecycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products primarily using Lean and Agile SDLC practices. The primary purpose of this position is to provide full, daily management for assigned professional staff. This responsibility includes hiring, discipline, and termination, as well as, coaching, performance management, assigning, checking, and approving work to satisfy department objectives. The incumbent will ensure accomplishment of department responsibilities based on oversight from senior management, following established practices, organizational strategy, department guidelines, and within approved budget.
What will you do?
Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
Provides leadership, planning and consultation to subordinates, executives, and peer management in the successful alignment of assigned department resources to ensure achievement of operational priorities and initiatives, integrating priorities within organizational strategies to ensure that department’s purpose is fulfilled. Creates work environment promoting continual improvement and learning, free from fear of failure, supporting mistakes that encourage continual learning. Employs Lean leadership style focusing on developing team members’ skills. Studies and understands new developments in Lean, Agile, and contemporary software development and management practices and encourages same for teams.
Contributes to or prepares and administers the annual budget and departmental expenses, ensuring accountability for on-time completion of deliverables based on department objectives, SLAs, and other Compassion standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory and board policies.
Selects, manages and develops assigned staff, establishing goals and objectives, coaching and managing performance, including discipline, motivation, and annual reviews; supports continuous learning and development that enhances individual performance and organizational capability. Coaches teams to identify a given problem, understand the root causes, and build solutions that will be embraced by the organization. Creates teams that are jointly responsible for success, solving problems together in ways that develop people’s capabilities and increases their engagement and commitment, focusing on respect for people.
Contributes to developing and setting strategy for application software design and development and technical and strategic expertise and leadership in the creation of inter-related system design for existing architecture.
Defines specifications for requirements to deploy applications. Serves as a key leader, leading the implementation of new standards in software development.
Working through subordinate professionals, leads developers and solutions engineering professionals who develop and update program logic for multiple applications or analyze and modify logic in existing applications.
What do you bring?
- 5+ years engineering management with an emphasis on mobile apps and/or Salesforce technologies
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Engineering Manager, Onboarding & Growth
Location: Remote – USA & Canada
Who is Boulevard?
Boulevard provides the first and only client experience platform for appointment-based, self-care businesses. We empower our customers to give their clients more of the magical moments that matter most.
Before launching in 2016, our founders spent months interviewing salon managers and working behind front desks to understand their pain points so we could design a modern, user-friendly platform that meets the unique needs of their business. Our roots may be in hair salons, but we are built for the broader self-care industry, including many types of salons, spas, medspas, barbershops, and more. Our technology not only helps our customers survive but thrive. Take a look at how we (and YOU) can make that happen.
We have an insatiable curiosity and embrace experimentation. We believe that simple solutions require the most sophistication, and we design each and every detail to maximize potential, power, and impact. Do our values match? Read through our story and what we value the most.
Our team values and celebrates our diverse backgrounds. Being open about who we are and what we do allows us to do the best work of our lives. We believe in equal opportunity for all, and you should too.
Come do the best work of your life at Boulevard.
Boulevard’s Onboarding & Growth team has an exciting imperative to build a world-class customer onboarding experience that provides seamless business continuity to new customers. This team’s charter is to create technology to efficiently and reliably launch businesses onto the Boulevard Platform, as well as enable them to manage and grow their Boulevard subscription.
As the Engineering Manager for the Onboarding & Growth team, you will be responsible for leading your team in the evolution of our customer migration systems, the improvement of our onboarding experience, and the acceleration of our customer growth. You are passionate about the customer experience, owning the quality and integrity of your team’s work, and holding your team to a high bar for quality. You partner and collaborate closely with your Product Manager, Designer, and Product Marketing Manager to make the best product decisions, build great products, and deliver significant business outcomes. You are passionate about building high-performing teams and fostering an environment where everyone is motivated to do their best work.
What you’ll do here:
- Hire, lead, and nurture engineers, empowering them to function as a highly performant team by setting clear expectations/goals, instilling a culture of ownership and accountability, and coaching/supporting growth challenges and opportunities.
- Collaborate with the Product Quad (Engineering, Product, Design, Product Marketing) on developing the roadmap in alignment with the company goals, execution, delivery of features, and improving the KPIs for the team.
- Uphold a culture of high engineering discipline by advocating for observability, monitoring, quality, and system metrics.
- Cultivate a culture of learning and development, continuous improvement, and best practices.
- Establish clear goals with your teams that support company objectives and individual growth and hold your teams accountable to desired outcomes.
- Be responsible for technical decisions within your team. Ensure technical decisions support longer-term direction for the platform as a whole. Ensures teams develop reliable solutions without single points of failure for mission-critical features.
- Be a role model for the team by demonstrating Boulevard’s values, accountability, and growth mindset.
- Participate in Incident Commander on-call rotation and lead incident handling and resolution for incidents that arise when you are on call.
What you’ll need to thrive:
- Experience: At least three years of experience managing engineering teams. Experience leading teams in building and evolving SaaS Platforms and APIs. Experience building full-stack web applications. Prior Onboarding and ETL experience is a plus.
- Mentorship & Career Growth Planning: Proven expertise and opinions on proper career growth planning, team building, and best practices.
- Technical & Leadership Skills: You have a balance of both technical and leadership strengths. You guide sound technical decisions within the team, as well as empower individuals and the team as a whole.
- Forward Thinker: Demonstrated ability to set strategy for evolving systems to support long-term objectives while still delivering incremental value in the now.
- Strong Communicator: Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You know your audience and can communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative: Deep partnership with your product trio, constantly collaborating to ensure we progress towards the desired outcomes, maintaining healthy engagement with peers and stakeholders across R&D for cross-functional initiatives.
- Ownership: You lead the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines with high quality. You’re proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for your team.
- Pride in the work: Pride for your work, and you care deeply about the quality of the outcomes of your team.
- Data Driven: You leverage data to support your point of view and to make decisions.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Collaboration Specialist
Locations
- US-REMOTE-DC
- USA-Remote (Any)
- US-REMOTE-NC
Time Type: Full time
Job Requisition Id: Requisition – 2023201721
Job Summary:
Provides technical assistance and support to American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) programs. Collects, compiles, and analyzes information relevant to programs. Provides administrative and project support, in addition to communication efforts related to program management and execution. Ensures compliance with internal and external regulations. Monitors budget for the AIAN Collaboration Office and develops monitoring system for reviewing project status. Ensures completion of program while adhering to budget, scope, and schedule requirements. Supports development/reviews of work plans, needs assessment, prepares presentations, and supports other related program objectives and deliverables. Additionally, the proposed Collaboration Specialist (Program Officer II) must possess sufficient knowledge, experience, and capabilities to expand the work of the AIAN Collaboration Office.
Accountabilities:
- Provides support to program management such as troubleshooting, updates work plans, coordinates travel arrangements and monitors program activities.
- Tracks performance against Financial Cost Objective (FCO) ID, project timelines, budget, objectives, and deliverables.
- Facilitates communication by answering partner inquires and monitoring project websites.
- Designs, implements, and coordinates specific program activities and may conduct research to achieve program goals.
- Works with Project Manager and assists with developing budgets, proposals, managing grants, project materials, and information.
- Collects, compiles and analyzes information relevant to the program.
- May provide administrative support as needed by writing, reviewing, and translating reports on a quarterly basis.
- Provides technical assistance and support to program.
- Reviews and contributes to work plans for AIAN Collaboration Office.
- Documents and shares project accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned among internal and external partners.
- Serves as the liaison for internal units, such as finance, contracts, centers, etc.
- Supports program/project teams administratively and technically to provide high quality deliverables to clients.
- Develops reports, briefing papers, press releases, and presentations as necessary for one or multiple projects/programs.
- Ensures timely implementation, and monitors project activities against work plans.
- Identifies resource development opportunities and supports development of proposals.
- Assists with budgeting and writing proposals.
- Serves as the liaison with government officials, local communities, and other organizations.
- Provides technical input to projects, including monitoring and evaluation.
- Supervises and mentors contractual staff and provides training on systems, policies, and regulations as needed.
Applied Knowledge & Skills:
- Working knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures with AIAN Early Childhood program design.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong and demonstrated program/project management skills.
- Ability to problem solves and implements corrective action as needed.
- Ability to prepare reports and provide information to management in a timely matter.
- Excellent people skills.
- Strong budget and administrative skills.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent – Civil Society, Communication and Social Marketing, Economic Development, Education, the Environment, Gender, Health, Nutrition, Research, Technology and Youth or a Related Field.
Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent • Education, Educational Administration, Early Childhood Education, Public or Business Administration, Public Policy or Related Field.
- Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.
- Understanding of diversity of Tribal Language and Cultures preferred.
Typical Physical Demands:
- Typical office environment.
- Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs
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