Engineering Manager

**About Company**

When we first launched Veterans Advantage in 2001, we created our mission to deliver “greater respect, recognition and rewards for those who serve.” Today, as the voice of the Greater Military Community and a Public Benefit Corporation, we advocate for corporate partners to join us in creating value through connected commerce experiences, military verification and offer content discovery. We’re driven to deliver outstanding digital experiences, advocacy, and exceptional value for our business partners and military community members. We embark on our mission to recognize all who have served, those who continue to serve, their families, and those who support them, through the creation of A Real Thank You.

**Our Culture**

**Be growth-minded.** Analyze and read everything. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Never stop learning, whether it’s a skill, a marketplace, about the customer, the industry, or the world. Share your knowledge with the team and encourage reflection.
**Be empathetic.** Recognize your fellow team members’ efforts. Respect different voices. Welcome unique points of view. Strive to understand, not just accept. Remain humble and champion each other.
**Be fearlessly creative.** Embrace autonomy, an entrepreneurial attitude, and risk-taking. Stand up for your scariest ideas. Disregard the way things have always been done in favor of the better, the bigger, and the downright best ways to get stuff done. Challenge the status quo. Make new things happen.
**Be responsible.** What you do is part of who you are. Own your decisions. Take action. Don’t set it and forget it. The ball is always in your court. Be accountable. You might not be the best person to fix everything but nothing is ever “not your problem.”
**Be honest.** Embed trust in everything you do. Work with integrity. Be trusted to do the right thing at the right time.
**Be patient.** There is no magic bullet. Keep focused on the goal. Resiliency is the key to achieving success one step at a time. Be persistent in achieving results.

Who You Are
- You’re an engineer at heart who enjoys breaking down complexity and employing an explorative and interactive approach that establishes standards and criteria for continuous improvement and continuous delivery.
- You have a knack for “code smell,” technical debt, and cognitive load. You understand the momentum of historical decisions leads to the creation of these environmental factors that impact future technical engineering efforts.
- You find satisfaction in partnering with fellow team members, breaking down barriers to success, and identifying opportunities for continuous growth.
- You’re a subscriber to empathy in engineering, understanding the developer experience as something built, not bought.

What You'll Do
- Be responsible for pivoting an established organization and technology suite to meet the demands of a changing marketplace. What does this mean? It means helping us uncover the undesirables of our current architecture and establishing protocols and standards to ensure longevity, scalability, and interoperability.
- Partner with our technology staffing vendor to standardize our product architecture and infrastructure. You’ll seek opportunities from a cost, time, or resource perspective that position us for a healthy future. We’re fortunate that our vendor is a great hand-in-hand partner, and together you’ll develop a Standard of Care that is the envy of all others.
- Develop our strategic Product vision and roadmap, and deliver exciting technologies as we expand our marketplace offerings and membership. With close alignment with our Technology & Innovation and Agile PMO leaders, you’ll be part of an unstoppable force.
- Partner with team members across the organization to plan, scope, and deliver our Product pipeline. With empathy and transparency, you’ll effectively communicate technical concepts and designs to those who may not be as technically savvy, gaining buy-in and empowering those around you.
- Build the Engineering team from the ground up. Thinking Agile Scrum, you’ll seek talent that will fit well and deliver with a customer-first mindset and proven track record.

**Requirements**:

- You have at least 3 years as a technology leader. You’ve bridged the gap between software engineering and using interpersonal skills as a manager to create a sense of camaraderie.
- You have experience in software engineering, data engineering, technical product development/management, IT, and/or systems engineering.
- You have experience with Agile Scrum software development methodologies.
- You have proven experience delivering software projects and/or products with measurable results.

Bonus Points
- You have experience with Domain-Driven Design and reducing complexity
- Experience with Typescript, Next.js, Postgres, API development
- Experience with Atlassian Products: Jira, Confluence, etc.
- You have formal training in Agile Scru