Engineering Manager at Orchard (New York, NY)

Job description

Role and Responsibilities This is an opportunity to join the growing product and engineering team in our venture-funded business focused on making the home selling experience easier for our customers. If you want to play a key role in scaling a new, innovative business this is the right role for you. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience with 2+ years experience building and managing teams who are creating, updating and maintaining web applications and/or services.  In this role you will:

• Play an active role in hiring and developing our engineering team.


• Work with business stakeholders to design and architect solutions to our business problems.


• Build and continuously deploy both internal tools and consumer facing products.


• Help to craft and iterate on our technology infrastructure to enable the growth and scale the business needs to succeed.


• Maintain continuously tested, scalable, and applications and services. As well as a well written, clean, testable code base which allows for moving quickly while delivering quality.

Professional Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to attract, identify, manage, mentor, and grow top engineering talent.


• Our services are written in Python and our web applications are in Javascript/Angular. Experience with one or both of those, or similar languages is required. 


• Working knowledge of building web applications using single page technologies and service oriented architecture.


• Familiarity with any of AWS, Postgres, SQL, Airflow, Docker, CircleCI, or Karma is a plus.


• Experience leading an agile team to plan, prioritize, build, and deploy code regularly using CI/CD tools.


• Willingness to roll up your sleeves


• Strong problem solving skills


• Real estate domain experience is a plus


• 5+ years experience in software engineering, at least 2 of them managing teams


• BS or MS in Computer Science

Personal Qualifications

• Results orientation with a high motor and an incredible attention to detail; able to drive projects from planning to completion with limited oversight


• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills to work across diverse stakeholders and cross-functional teams


• A low ego and can-do attitude; willingness to admit mistakes and work to remedy them


• Flexibility to prioritize deliverables and re-prioritize them at a moment’s notice


• Comfort operating in an ambiguous environment where there's not a set playbook on how to solve each problem

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