Engineering Manager, Data
Rokt, United States
Job Description
Rokt makes e-commerce smarter, faster, and better. When customers are buying online, they increasingly expect more personalized and relevant experiences. Rokt uses real-time data and decisioning to deliver the next best action for each person in each Transaction Moment. Founded in Sydney in 2012, Rokt now operates in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, The Netherlands, Spain, and Japan. Our clients include Live Nation, Staples, Groupon, GoDaddy, Expedia, Wells Fargo, Vistaprint, and HelloFresh. Rokt unlocks the hidden potential in every single Transaction Moment.
With an annual revenue run rate of more than USD$100m and a vibrant company culture, Rokt was recently listed in Built In NYC's ‘Best Places to Work’ in New York. Our award-winning culture is guided by our four core values: Smart with Humility, Customer Obsessed, Conquer New Frontiers, and Enjoy the Ride. These values help us recruit, retain, and promote the right talent around the globe and ensure we have the right conditions to do our best work. Rokt closed our Series D in 2020, raising US$80m from TDM Growth Partners and existing investors. The investment supports our continued investment in research and development.
We are profitable, growing fast, and having fun transforming the world of e-commerce.
Learn more at rokt.com.
We are looking for a talented Engineering Manager to join our Customer Data Platform (CDP) group. This CDP group is critical for the successful integration to and from our customer’s data platforms and is a key component of Rokt’s data driven value.
You will be expected to apply your strong engineering, problem solving and leadership skills to work together with engineers, product and business to prioritize and execute on new features. You will ensure that while continuing to move forward with our product we are maintaining the stability and reliability of our systems for our customers.
As a leader you will strive to motivate your team in a positive and sustainable way, ensuring that we are celebrating our successes while continuing to learn and improve. You should be keen to see measurable improvements to the product and the value we deliver to our customers.
- Contributing to the collaborative development processes within the team and organization from across both product and technical domains.
- Identifying and proposing improvements to the current system architecture that emphasize reliability and scalability.
- Working with the product and engineering teams to produce development plans and see through to delivery and success.
- Growing and mentoring the team, ensuring continuity and ongoing career development for the team and the members within it.
Requirements
- Strong complex system architecture design experience and understanding; space/time complexity, API contract design and stewardship, AWS cloud based infrastructure.
- Polyglot engineer: Golang, Python, Java, Clojure are of especial interest
- Learn quickly: demonstrated ability to quickly understand and absorb new information. Passion for technology and eager to dive-in to figure out how things work.
- Analytical skills: able to process both qualitative and quantitative data and draw conclusions from it.
- Leadership: organize and motivate engineering contributors, work with the product team to schedule in an efficient and productive manner, understanding business logic and be able to translate into appropriate technical solutions
Benefits
- Work with the greatest talent in town. Our recruiting process is tough. We hold a high bar because we have a high performing culture - we only want the brightest and the best.
- Join a community. We believe the best things happen when we come together to solve complex problems and make meaningful connections with each other through interest groups, sports clubs, and social events.
- Accelerate your career. Develop through our global training events, ‘Level Up’ investment, online training courses and our fantastic people leaders. Take your career to Rokt’speed - the average time between promotions is 12 months.
- Take a break. When you work hard, we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and parental leave policies. We also offer a paid Rokt’star Sabbatical for employees who have been with us 3 years or more.
- Stay happy and healthy. Enjoy catered lunch 3 times a week and healthy snacks in the office. Plus, join the gym on us! Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan in the US. In the US, get fully funded premium health insurance for your whole family.
- Become a shareholder. All Rokt’stars have s