Engineering Manager, Shop (Remote, Europe)

Relevant Experience:

* A passion for helping growing development teams and making others better

* Experience with web or mobile applications for a consumer facing audience

* Worked on large scale, high throughput systems and scaling web/api services

* Strong foundation in Object Oriented programming and fluency in at least one OO language

* Comfortable with relational databases and SQL (we mostly use MySQL)

* A commitment and drive for quality, and building for the long term

* A love of your craft and a curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things

* A track record of taking ownership on problems and projects

What you'll be working on:

* Managing the growth and development of talented technical teams

* Giving timely and constructive feedback, as well as being open to receiving it!

* Setting expectations, and holding teams accountable

* Working with your team to build a highly scalable system

* Designing, building, deploying and maintaining Ruby-based GraphQL APIs with new resources, features, and improvements. You will be hands on keyboard for 30-40% of time at the beginning of this role as we grow out the team

* Building performant solutions that scale to hundreds of millions of users

* We mostly use Ruby on Rails, along with Kafka for a messaging bus, Redis for background jobs, and ElasticSearch for search. We deploy 10+ times a day to Google Cloud with Kubernetes