Software Engineering Manager

** Job Title
** Software Engineering Manager
** Job Description
**** Hybrid 3x a week- NYC
** In-office Expectations:
This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.
**** About The Team |*
* * The Team and/or Brand.
*** People Inc. is a leading digital media company that owns and operates a portfolio of highly respected brands across various brands, including All recipes, BHG, MyRecipes, Food & Wine and more. With a commitment to providing high-quality content and innovative digital experiences, People Inc reaches millions of users globally and continues to drive growth and engagement across its platforms. People Inc.

is looking for a Software Engineering Manager focused on front-end development with a demonstrated track record of mentorship, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment to support and expand the search and recommendation services across the Home and Food brands.

As the technology leader on your scrum team, you will be responsible for helping to set technical direction, realizing your ideas in code, and collaborating with other groups within the organization.
**** The Role’s

Minimum Qualifications and

Job Requirements:

*******
* Experience:

***** Manage and mentor front-end developers on your team, to grow their skills and prepare them for increased responsibility.
* Prototype and develop responsive and elegant cross-platform functionality on a custom server-side component framework, built on Java but leveraging SCSS, Freemarker templates, and ES6 on the front-end, with VueJS increasingly used for more interactive components.
* Contribute to / maintain People Inc.’s commitment to highly performant sites.
* Research new technologies to solve problems and improve existing systems.
* Lead discussions about project architecture and technical feasibility, make decisions, and justify your development approach.
* Work in close collaboration with the business and product stakeholders to launch new features while maintaining engineering standards.
* Organize, track and lead the paying down of technical debt.
* Develop Looker Views and Models to democratize access to data products.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, ML, Backend) to scope and build ML-powered UI experiences.
* Create and manage ML ops workflows or ML infrastructure
* Experience with ingesting raw data with Fivetran and Python and surface in Big Query for the productional use.
* Own technical decisions involving front-end performance, architecture, and reliability.
* Guide and support Elasticsearch integration for user-facing search functionality.
**** Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:
***** 7+ years in a front-end or full stack web development position.
* 3+ years managing engineers.
* High levels of skill with HTML, CSS, SCSS, and vanilla Java script; significant experience with one or more other languages.
* Significant experience with at least one server-side templating language - think JSP, Twig, Python or Handlebar. Alternatively, experience working with a component-based web framework, particularly one with a server-side templating aspect (e.g., Vue+Nuxt).
* Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar search tools.
* You have commendable experience with at least one cloud service platform (GCP and AWS preferred).
* You've worked with data at scale using Apache Spark, Beam or a similar framework.
* You're familiar with data streaming architectures using technologies like Pub/Sub and Apache Kafka.
* Experience and knowledge of web performance standards and Google’s Core Web Vitals.
* Proven track record of working with 3rd party APIs and integrating them into web applications.
* The ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly requirements – and vice versa.
* Comfortable using the tools of modern collaborative Agile+Scrum SDLC, including Git, Jira, etcIt is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual…