Become an Engineering Manager for Bloomreach! Lead our Web Experience team in unlocking personalization on our clients’ websites (and mobile apps) to optimize end customer journeys while supporting quick experiments and multi-variant testing. Your leadership and strategic direction will impact hundreds of millions of customers in the online space across dozens of different verticals in the e-commerce industry. Salary starts at 4000€ gross / monthalong with stock options and other benefits. Working in one of our Central European offices or from home on a full-time basis, you´ll become a core part of the Engineering Team.

What challenge awaits you?

As the Engineering Manager for the Web Experience team, you will be tasked with the critical responsibility of balancing engineering and product needs. Your challenge will be to lead a team of talented engineers in developing and maintaining high-throughput and low-latency APIs and client-side scripts, while also ensuring that the product's strategic objectives are met.

Your job will be to:

1. Guiding the team in delivering
   and balancing new features and maintenance tasks
2. Developing your team members
3. Collaborating with wider Product and Engineering departments

a. Guiding the team in delivering and balancing
new features and maintenance tasks

• Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development, testing, and deployment of high-throughput and high-performance APIs and client-side scripts.
• Clarify scope and help the team to break down the projects into manageable tasks.
• Assure engineering and quality best practices are applied throughout the development process.
• Lead the team in continuous delivery and testing, ensuring that all products meet our high standards of quality.
• Elevate team needs and guide them on how to address maintenance tasks and tasks addressing technical depth.

b. Developing your team members

• Manage a team of people (6-10), coordinating the team to work towards a common goal, establishing a working plan, allocating resources, and assigning responsibilities.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement, providing opportunities for team members to develop their skills and knowledge.
• Take responsibility for the personal development and training of your team members, providing regular feedback and guidance to help them grow in their roles.
• Encourage team members to take ownership of their work, promoting accountability and a sense of pride in their contributions.
• Recognize and celebrate the achievements of team members, fostering a positive and motivating work environment.

c. Collaborating with wider Product and Engineering departments

• Contribute to the product roadmap, helping to define the strategic direction and mission for the team.
• Prepare for upcoming projects and participate in the prioritization process to ensure efficient workflow and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with the product team beyond the technical development and delivery process, assisting with product launch and adoption to ensure successful rollout and user engagement.
• Communicate and collaborate with other Engineering Managers and their teams, identifying and managing dependencies to ensure seamless integration and coordination.
• Represent the team in various discussions with internal stakeholders, advocating for the team's interests and contributing to company-wide decision-making processes.

What technologies and tools does the WX team work with?

• Programming languages - GO, Python, and TypeScript
• Google Cloud Platform services - Kubernetes, Bigtable, BigQuery
• Data Storage and Processing - MongoDB, Redis, Kafka
• Software and Tools - Grafana, Sentry, Gitlab, Jira, Productboard, PagerDuty

The owned area encompasses various domains such as multi-variant testing, no-code/low-code web layer design, non-blocking JavaScript and, high-performance client-side scripts, high-throughput and low-latency API, tracking user behavior on websites, delivering third-party scripts into websites, tag management, and data layer. Therefore, having experience in these areas would be beneficial.

Your success story will be:

• In 30 Days: Gain understanding of company processes, team dynamics, and key features. Establish regular 1-on-1 meetings with team members.
• In 90 Days: Participate in project preparation and prioritization. Balance feature completeness, technical quality, and delivery speed in project execution. Ensure transparency in plans, progress, and findings.
• In 180 Days: Set and support personal development goals for team members. Become a trusted expert in your field. Identify and optimize efficient paths to achieve your goals and the goals of your team.

You have the following experience and qualities:

1. Professional— Proven experience in engineering leadership, project management, and software architecture.
2. Personal — Demonstrates strong initiative, ability to work independently, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Professional experience

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role in a software development setting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex situations and evaluate alternative solutions.
• Experience in leading a team in continuous delivery and testing, ensuring high-quality output.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to product roadmaps and strategic direction.
• Experience in preparing for upcoming projects and participating in the prioritization process.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles and practices.
• Experience with Agile planning and methodologies.

Personal qualities

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to tailor communication to diverse audiences and build consensus.
• Proactive and persistent, with a strong initiative to seize opportunities and contribute to achieving goals.
• Ability to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within a team.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to set personal development goals for team members and guide them on their career paths.
• Ability to balance feature completeness, technical quality, and speed of delivery in project execution.
• Ability to identify and optimize efficient paths to achieve personal and team goals.

Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences.

Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.

The Role

Agile Six is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a collaborative team working with the Department of Veterans Affairs to help expedite the delivery benefits to Veterans. By delivering high quality, functional software informed by user feedback and research, our team will increase access to health care, directly impacting and improving the lives of Veterans.

The successful candidate will be designing and developing web services and other components using message brokers (RabbitMQ) within an open source project and ecosystem. We are searching for someone who embraces open source software and an open ethos regarding software development. As a part of our team, you can expect to work on important problems that have a lasting impact on millions of users and make a difference in our government!

Responsibilities

• Contribute as part of a cross functional Agile team to build a large, scalable web application in an open source ecosystem
• Write components and services using software development principles and best practices
• Design and build software components with an eye towards modular, extensible, and scalable design
• Provide guidance and informal leadership to other teammates through code reviews, pair coding, mentorship, etc.
• Leverage emerging technologies and practices around DevOps, cloud services, AI, automation tools, etc. where appropriate in the course of daily work to improve efficiency and/or quality
• Demonstrate strong communication and team collaboration skills
• Write automated unit tests and integration tests, and assist in manual testing as needed
• Contribute to software design through the development and communication of solutions, as well as build consensus through diagrams and other forms of presentation
• Work with a Product Owner to ensure that work is accurately described and appropriately prioritized, including providing input into product roadmaps, product and sprint backlogs, and user stories
• Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed through activities such as:
  • Assisting in outreach, recruitment, and hiring efforts
  • Occasionally participating in or otherwise supporting business development efforts, including code or design challenges, writing or reviewing proposal responses, etc.
  • Participating in communities of practice

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of production experience with a variety of programming languages, including Java and Python
• Demonstrated experience with Spring and Gradle (or a similar open source build automation tool)
• Expert-level understanding of common design patterns and software development principles, and how to apply these effectively in day-to-day software development
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one area of the software stack and/or language/platform, coupled with a broad understanding of the software landscape (T-Shaped expertise)
• Experience working on an Agile team, delivering on an agile cadence, and demonstrating an Agile mindset.
• Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks
• Experience in an open-source, collaborative development environment
• Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years
• Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview

Additional desired qualifications

• Experience with Ruby
• Experience with Apache Camel
• Experience with PostgresDB and Redis
• Experience with pub/sub systems, messaging brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Experience working with GitHub or other git repositories
• Experience developing in the AWS cloud
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC platforms
• Experience working in or with government agencies, especially the VA
• Previously contributed to at least one open source project
• U.S. Veteran

Sixer Salary and Benefits

To promote equal pay for equal work, we publish salary ranges for each position.

The salary for this position is $141,387-$148,638

Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are all available to all employees, but you will be expected to largely manage them yourself. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not bossy), caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first.”

All Sixers Enjoy:

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
• Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
• 401K matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
• Employer paid life insurance
• Self-managed and generous paid time off
• Paid federal holidays and Election day off
• Paid parental leave
• Self-managed professional development spending
• Self-managed wellness days

Hiring practices

Agile Six Applications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role is required to work from the contiguous United States.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to careers@agile6.com. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.

Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.

About SonderMind

At SonderMind, we know that therapy works. SonderMind provides accessible, personalized mental healthcare that produces high-quality outcomes for patients. SonderMind's individualized approach to care starts with using innovative technology to help people not just find a therapist, but find the right, in-network therapist for them, should they choose to use their insurance. From there, SonderMind's clinicians are committed to delivering best-in-class care to all patients by focusing on high-quality clinical outcomes. To enable our clinicians to thrive, SonderMind defines care expectations while providing tools such as clinical note-taking, secure telehealth capabilities, outcome measurement, messaging, and direct booking.

To follow the latest SonderMind news, get to know our clients, and learn about what it’s like to work at SonderMind, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. 

About the Role

As an SDET/Test Automation QA Engineer, you will have a passion for successfully developing robust and scalable testing frameworks to continuously improve quality, reduce cycle time, and bake efficiency into our development and testing processes. You will work closely with Product and Support teams to consistently advocate for end-users by ensuring the SonderMind platform is stable and meets the functional requirements. You strive for quality releases and exceeding customer expectations.    

Essential Functions 

• Create and maintain automated and manual test cases
• Assist with any manual testing needs on the team
• Participate and have input on QA direction discussions; own the QA processes on the team 
• Accountable for testing all stories coming through the team
• Work with other SDET’s and Manual testers to ensure cross team projects are thoroughly tested
• Work closely with engineers  to understand the underlying architecture in the code to create more robust tests.

What does success look like?

• Quickly integrates into the team and becomes familiar with tools, process, and culture of existing software development and testing life cycles. Tests while leveraging existing scripts and adds to and/or makes recommendations for improvement.
• Start build and implementation of go-forward test automation framework(s).
• Well versed in our go-forward automated testing strategy. Fully understands system architecture, business functionality and technical dependencies. The test automation framework is stable, reusable, and positively growing code coverage.

Who you are?

• 4+ years of software test development experience with proficiency in Javascript, Typescript, or similar 
• Experience in Unix scripting or equivalent command line tools 
• Experience with designing and developing full stack test automation ( Protractor, Cypress, etc)  
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and tools  (Gitlab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins)
• Testing and automating RESTful API service calls via tools such as Postman, Bruno, or similar
• Ability to lead creation and maintenance of advanced suites of automated scripts for the full stack
• Source control, Git experience
• Experience in communicating quality reporting and metrics of test execution results, including use in visibility dashboards
• Strong understanding of SDLC processes specifically agile scrum methodology

Preferred Experience 

• Test case management systems, including creating integrations with one 
• Load & Performance Test Engineering
• Demonstrated experience in designing automation creating modular test scripts for reuse
• Coding or working familiarity with any of the following technologies: Angular, AWS Deployment , ElasticSearch, Unit testing RSpec, Jasmine or similar experience, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis

Our Benefits 

The anticipated salary rate for this role is between $114,000-130,000 per year.

As a leader in redesigning behavioral health, we are walking the walk with our employee benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their life and work.

Our benefits include:

• A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
• A generous PTO policy 
• Therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA and FSA options
• Employer-paid disability & AD&D to cover life's unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to eight (8) weeks of short-term disability leave
• Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave  (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition)
• 401K retirement plan with 100% matching on up to 4% of base salary

Application Deadline

This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled.

Equal Opportunity 
SonderMind does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religion, veteran and military status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information or characteristics), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.