Engineering Manager - Backend

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Ternary Inc.

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Description

• Ternary is seeking an Engineering Manager, Backend, to join our team. • The role involves leading teams building groundbreaking new products powered by data, machine learning and AI models. • You will inspire and mentor team members to perform at their best. • Guiding and supporting your team to solve the most impactful projects for our customers. • Understanding and supporting direct reports in their career development and growth while balancing overall project priorities, team morale, technical debt, and customer needs. • Lead, hire, and grow a high-caliber team of backend engineers. • Cultivate a culture of blame-free incident analysis and learning. • Act as the tech lead of the team, collaborate with product managers, engineering managers and other stakeholders. • Lead mission-critical projects and ship high quality products.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Engineering Management experience - including mentoring and coaching Senior developers in early-stage and enterprise companies. • Prior management of backend feature teams. • Want to keep your sleeves rolled up as a player-coach. A hands-on manager who is willing and adept at delving into the details, remaining hands-on coding, producing technical designs and conducting code reviews. • Passionate and adept at learning new knowledge and skills, skilled at quickly ramping up in new areas. • Have a bias for action, and don’t let sensitive topics fester. Interested in promoting these traits within your direct reports and greater Product Delivery org. • Technical depth allows you to develop and mentor others and build credibility with your team. • Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leads. • Experience establishing and measuring team goals. • Excellent critical thinking and communication skills. • Regularly consider business lens and tradeoffs even for deeply technical engineering problems. • Experience in building platform products, and driving algorithmic and AI powered features is a bonus. • Embody a startup mentality of taking ownership and driving initiatives forward with minimal supervision. • Uphold a high bar by participating in technical discussions, providing feedback on specs, and making recommendations. • Are excited to own new initiatives and take them from 0 to 1. • Ship and own high-impact products end-to-end with high quality. • Are an empathetic person and active listener who loves building solutions to help others. • Have experience in data warehouses and query engines, or classic Big Data technologies: BigQuery, Redshift, Athena, Snowflake, Hadoop and/or Spark.

Benefits

• Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year. • We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office. • Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success. • The team culture is the best of what you would expect to see at a startup combined with a level of maturity you would see at a much larger company.