Dropbox is looking to solve the business problem of maintaining and improving the quality and reliability of its core user-facing web platform, specifically the File Sync and Share (FSS) functionality, which is critical to customer trust and overall product success. The Senior Engineering Manager will be responsible for driving direct business and customer impact by leading a team to execute on critical company-wide objectives.
Requirements
- Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Must have experience being a hands-on web front-end engineer at a senior level
Responsibilities
- Be accountable for high quality execution on critical and highly visible business objectives
- Be responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt
- Be responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations
- Lead the team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc.
- Review and approve engineering designs and be able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead)
- Drive cross-org initiatives alongside delivering execution responsibilities
Other
- Directly manage up to 25 direct reports as a single execution unit
- Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints
- Drive career conversations and career plans for your direct reports
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
- Minimum of 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team
- Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience
- Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above, and experience managing managers
- Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
