Manager, Software Engineering, Maps
$229,000–$343,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States or Seattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Manage and mentor a team of backend engineers in a fast-paced environment where you set strategy, build roadmaps, and lead delivery of scalable services. Collaborate with Product, Operations, Data Science, and executive stakeholders to evaluate technical tradeoffs and drive major initiatives. Hire, grow, and retain high-performing team members while utilizing AI tools to design and ship code that meets rigorous standards for correctness, security, and production readiness. Own the backend infrastructure and data pipelines supporting Snap Map, from friend location tracking to place data, ensuring the world's most personal map remains functional for hundreds of millions of users. Work in an office four days per week as part of a diverse team dedicated to building fun, technically sophisticated products.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience
- 9+ years of post-Bachelor's software development experience; or a Master's degree in a technical field + 8+ years of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of post-grad software development experience
- 1+ years of experience managing a team or acting as a technical lead
- Experience with distributed systems and backend service development
- Background with building high availability and mission critical backend systems
- Experience with leading an engineering team
- Track record on both sides of the infrastructure and product split: you have built platform or infrastructure that other teams depend on, and you have shipped user-facing features and been accountable for their metrics
- Experience building backend infrastructure and shipping user-facing product: you have built platform services other teams depend on, and you have owned features and the metrics they move
- Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
- Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices
- Manage and mentor a team of backend engineers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
- Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead your team to deliver
- Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders
- Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
- Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members
- Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code
- Work in an office 4+ days per week
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with geospatial or location-based systems, such as map data pipelines, place and POI data, routing, or spatial indexing
- Familiarity with driving large scale initiatives from ideation to completion
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience with Ops-heavy systems/products
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