Who is Return Path?

Return Path is the expert in deliverability. Every day, our customers trust our data and insights to help them optimize their email marketing. Partnered with best-in-class email service providers, we help marketers take their email programs to the next level by driving more response and increasing revenue.

At Return Path, we know email.

Through the Return Path Data Exchange, we’ve brought together the world’s most comprehensive source of data from the email ecosystem. We partner with more than 70 providers of mailbox and security solutions, covering 2.5 billion inboxes—approximately 70 percent of the worldwide total. Also feeding into this data platform is our consumer network of more than 2 million consumers, delivering unparalleled insight into user behavior, brand affinity, and consumer preferences.

Once you’re an employee here, this is a place where you’ll be challenged, inspired, rewarded, and transformed.

The Impact You’ll Have 

At Return Path, “Big Data” is a big deal! We’re swimming in data, terabytes of it, and we need a smart, versatile Engineering Manager to help us solve the most pressing challenges in the email industry. For example, we process data from 100+ million email messages every day, and build useful products powered by all that data. If you love solving complex problems in a simple way, have solid programming skills and are passionate about achieving meaningful business results, then you may be the right fit as an Engineering Manager at Return Path.

As a technical leader, you will be working alongside other dedicated and passionate engineering leaders, software and site reliability engineers, product managers and data analysts, to build the backend to power the next generation of Return Path applications to solve the most pressing challenges in the email industry, and to help people and businesses communicate more reliably, effectively, and securely. While you don’t need a fancy degree to work here, you do need to embrace learning and continuous improvement, have a strong technical skill set, and favor simple solutions over complex ones. The people we hire are pragmatic, versatile, data-driven and self-directed.

Responsibilities

• Be a combination of an effective people manager and experienced software engineer

• Hire, coach and mentor team members

• Be the delivery manager – achieve high team velocity while navigating both technical and business tradeoffs

• Communicate cross-functionally with other teams and stakeholders across the company to execute strategic initiatives

• Co-lead sprint planning with product manager and drive decomposition of cards into deliverable pieces

• Encourage a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, stability and security of both internal and external APIs and consumer applications

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer

• Experience in technical leadership role such as team lead

• Understanding of software development in a team including continuous integration, agile development, production monitoring and observability

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years leading an engineering team responsible for building and maintaining customer APIs or consumer applications

• Experience with the following languages, technologies, and platforms:

  • Go, Python, Kafka, AWS (EC2, RDS, dynamo, etc), Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience developing large scale distributed systems

People First

At Return Path, we are building an extraordinary company that helps people and businesses communicate more reliably, effectively, and securely. We put people first, do the right thing, and succeed together.

We have a strong belief that our people are the most important part of our business. We incorporate this philosophy into our practices and we live it every day. This means we have generous traditional benefits and take a lot of time to focus on quality management and leadership development. We also strive to ensure each person in the company is in the right job, knows how his or her job contributes to the overall company mission, and has a clear sense of career growth and direction. We have great employee retention over the years because people love coming to work here and really feel like they're part of something special.

Do the right thing

The Return Path experience is a two-way exchange. We expect you to give us your best every day, and you can expect the same from us. In exchange for your talent, your energy, and your unique contributions, we will strive to give you what you need to live a balanced, healthy life. This means more than competitive pay and benefits—it means offering the freedom and flexibility to create your ideal experience inside and outside the office.

For more information visit www.returnpath.com

Return Path is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.