Engineering Manager

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Location: Remote (Preferred Markets: Louisville, KY; Toronto, CAN; Vancouver, CAN)

Reports To: Chief Technology Officer

Department: Technology

Generation Tux is an online tuxedo and suit rental platform founded by menswear legend, George Zimmer. George created the company in 2014 to provide high-quality tuxedo and suit rentals, competitively priced, and in the most convenient way possible -- shipped directly to your door. Generation Tux is a growth stage startup, and we need your help taking our growth to the next level.

We are a growing software driven startup seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of exceptional software engineers shipping code that supports millions of users in the coming years, and we need your help to grow to the next level!

Our sophisticated tech stack involves e-commerce, fulfillment, tracking, and both forward and reverse logistics, multi-stage IoT using RFID, and AI-driven fit algorithms as part of a highly scalable cloud-based SaaS services. We are rapidly expanding our API-driven platform to a wide array of partners, and we will leverage your knowledge of what modern-day software developers need and your ability to drive that roadmap as a member of our Core Platform Product Management team.

Generation Tux has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be transparent, respectful, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. We’d love to have you join our amazing team!

What you will be doing

• Work alongside engineering leadership to break down requirements into epics and stories, generate estimates, and adjust work based on predictable changes in rank- ordered priority from product management to enable us to launch new features rapidly
• Retain and reinforce an amazing engineering development culture and process, leveraging a review and release framework that will expand your awareness
• Deeply understand technical details of warehouse, customer support and the core ecommerce app, as well as related auth, account, payments, event management and notification services to be able to properly support your teams
• Lead agile ceremonies, engineering go/no-go, and assist in requirements review and unblocking teams
• This is a highly technical role; you must still have hands-on coding skill, and are expected to contribute code 50% of the time
  

REQUIREMENTS

What you should have

• Experience working in an agile development environment, using GitHub within a continuous integration environment to ship code frequently, ideally using modern build services such as CircleCI, Travis, Codeship
• 4 years hands on (recent) coding experience developing enterprise level, consumer-facing web applications across the full development stack
• Solid architectural skills with open source and AWS tooling; example technologies you should exposure to or awareness of includes RDS, redis, nginx
• 3 years of professional experience working with Python and DJango
• 1 years working at a software company (not consulting, not hardware, not finance) with a title of team lead or higher
• 1 years experience leading other engineers technically to implement requirements from product management
• Must live within 3 hours of Eastern Standard Time (EST)
• Strong git fu; able to handle three-way merges as well as knowledge of how to avoid them; stash, merge 
• Familiarity with Docker and site reliability engineering practices (RCA, daily rotation, PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Statuspage/Pingdom)
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or other related engineering field, or comparable industry experience within a software organization
• Experience working across the org with stakeholders and product management
• Experience leading a team shipping multiple releases of one or more software products, where 100% of the revenue of the company comes from the software products written by the team you have lead technically
• Experience managing engineers

Extremely Nice to Haves

• Experience with Laravel
• Experience with Node.js and React
• Experience with requirement review, defining epics, and breaking down epics into stories during grooming and planning for your team
• Experience defining a new revenue-generating product, building and releasing it, and iterating on it in less than two years

Books We Like

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Good to Great
• The Advantage

Posting Statement

At Generation Tux, we believe that our goal is to enable incredible lifestyle experiences during major life events. Each of us has a responsibility to drive accountability, transparency, and respect.

Generation Tux is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Generation Tux does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Generation Tux will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Generation Tux.