Genies is looking for an Engineering Manager, Backend to drive the development and growth of their backend services powering the developer platform, core mobile experiences, and AI powered infrastructure for their products. The goal is to build an interoperable avatar network and empower user-generated content.
Requirements
- Experience in developing, designing and working with APIs, distributed databases and caching systems
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
- Proficiency in multiple object-oriented languages such as Python, Golang, Java, C++, etc.
- Experience with languages like Golang, Python, or C++
- Enjoy hands-on coding, designing and working with APIs for both internal and external consumption
- Thrive in solving really fun and challenging technical problems.
Responsibilities
- Lead a multi-discipline team of Engineers to create best in class systems and products.
- Take new products and features from the design phase to production.
- Delve into code written by other engineers and take ownership of existing systems as needed.
- Experiment with cutting-edge technologies and solutions applied everywhere from data storage to APIs to user facing experiences and games
- Build and operate a high quality infrastructure and service ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, and performance
- Collaborate with the broader engineering team to help plan the company's long-term technology roadmap and define the future of our systems
- Support efforts to advance useful LLM and ML systems for end-users while gaining new knowledge from our researchers
Other
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 7+ years of professional experience including 2+ years of engineering management experience
- Self-starter, analytical, creative, highly motivated with a visionary spirit
- Strong communication skills, particularly when articulating goals and risks to peers and the leadership team.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic development environment.
- Player-coach mentality to lead the team and be part of it at the same time
- Genies is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.
