Planning Center is looking to solve the problem of leading a collaborative and high-performing team of software developers to deliver software effectively and contribute meaningfully to their mission.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years developer experience
- A minimum of 1 year of leadership and/or management experience
- Experience with code quality best practices, testing, and documentation
- Experience with technical debt management and innovation
- Experience with on-call coverage and incident management
- Experience with architectural decisions, code reviews, and pull requests
- Preferred experience with new technologies and practices
Responsibilities
- Lead the team to enforce code quality best practices through regular PR reviews, testing, and thorough documentation
- Focus on making measurable improvements to the codebase to enhance maintainability and performance
- Align technical priorities with product goals, emphasizing technical debt management and readiness for innovation
- Advocate for new technologies and practices to boost efficiency and drive innovation
- Stay informed about team incidents, ensure proper on-call coverage, and conduct postmortems when necessary
- Collaborate with the team on architectural decisions, code reviews, pull requests, and other tasks
- Implement, monitor, and optimize measures to guide the team's activities toward healthy and sustainable code
Other
- Create a welcoming and collaborative team environment by sharing ideas, working with other teams and departments, and allowing for personal connections, especially in a remote setting
- Ensure a healthy work-life balance by establishing practical project scopes and deadlines
- Set clear expectations and support developers in owning their work, providing guidance and resources as needed
- Address performance issues constructively, supporting developers to improve or, if necessary, managing them out, with guidance and assistance from the Senior Engineering Manager (SEM)
- Partner with developers to help them grow their careers by providing individualized attention in 1:1 sessions and other settings to guide their skill development and goal-setting
- Reside in the United States
- Eligible to work in the United States
- Be willing to travel four times each year to connect with the rest of the team (not during a pandemic)
- Engage with Humility, Invest in our team, Do Our Best Work, Focus on Customer Impact, Think Holistically, Work Iteratively
