Planning Center is looking to hire an Engineering Manager (EM) to lead a team of software developers. The EM will be responsible for cultivating a healthy team environment, empowering team members, and making a lasting impact on Planning Center's core API infrastructure. This includes guiding the evolution of their real-time Message Bus and Webhooks infrastructure, exploring opportunities like building MCP servers, and shaping their AI strategy.
Requirements
- Experience in Ruby on Rails and React.
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
- Reside in the United States
- Eligible to work in the United States (*we are currently unable to offer employment to those with H-1B visas *)
- Be willing to travel four times each year to connect with the rest of the team (not during a pandemic)
- A minimum of 1 year of leadership and/or management experience
- Core Values: Engage with Humility, Invest in our team, Do Our Best Work, Focus on Customer Impact, Think Holistically, Work Iteratively.
