ABOUT THIS POSITION

As our Senior Engineering Manager of Ecommerce, you will help your team thrive in a collaborative environment focused on delivering highly performant product landing pages and high-value payment checkout flows. You will lead an established but growing team of Angular2+, NodeJS, and PHP engineers who oversee our ecommerce monorepo and work with them to deliver a universally scaling ecomm platform. Through a mixture of managing, architecting, and developing, you will encourage your team to release high quality and timely results in order to ensure that our products perform in the marketplace and consistently deliver convenience and delight.

ABOUT ACEABLE

Aceable is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating affordable, engaging, and convenient online courses available across all of your mobile devices. Built by former teachers, NASA engineers, and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people reach life goals and milestones through online certification. 

After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver's ed courses, Aceable expanded into real estate education and is quickly becoming one of the leading online real estate schools in the U.S. To date, the Aceable team adds hundreds of thousands of students per month, and touts more than 20 million students served. We're only getting started, and we need your help to get us to our vision of millions of students per month.

Aceable has been awarded as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin for multiple years running by numerous entities, such as the Austin Business Journal, BuiltInAustin, and EqualOcean. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and diverse culture whose overall mission is to impact as many student-lives as possible.

ABOUT THE ENGINEERING TEAM

We are a team that cares heavily about the quality of product and our student’s learning experience. The Ecommerce Engineering team comes from a variety of backgrounds, thrives on collaboration and respect, and pushes each other daily to do their best. We ask the same of any new hire and are always excited to see what creative ideas, viewpoints, and processes each new engineer brings to the table.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Manage a team of highly skilled software developers in a SCRUM framework focusing on ecommerce
• Act as a liaison between Marketing, Product Management, QA, and the rest of the Engineering organization to address consumer needs on the site.
• Help organize and keep tasks organized between all Engineering teams
• Develop, implement, and maintain engineering practices including methodologies, measurements and reporting
• Create an environment of teamwork, open communication, ownership, and accountability managing multiple engineering projects
• Set team level and individual team member goals, align those to the corporate goals and pillars, and ensure that they are executed to completion on time and with high quality
• Coach and mentor the Engineering Team members to help them grow in their careers and achieve their maximum potential as people
• Provide routine reporting to relevant stakeholders on the performance and costs of the Engineering Team
• Define, track, and act against team level health metrics and roll those up to the corporate scorecard to ensure visibility and ongoing improvement
• Make key technical decisions on software system architecture
• Be proficient and capable of supporting the team in a hands-on capacity developing code and deploying our products
• Provide guidance to the Engineering Team on key platform decisions, including procurement of third party solutions

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• 5+ years experience as a Web Engineer
• 4+ years of experience managing team in an Agile/SCRUM framework
• 1+ years managing a team or large-scale projects
• High level expertise in PHP, Javascript, Node.JS, and JS frameworks
• High level expertise in database concepts for PostgreSQL, Mongo, etc.
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• An innate desire to help and progress the careers of those around them
• A strong drive for continued education in technological and management concepts

BONUS POINTS

• Experience with marketing technologies for web and mobile, including analytics systems such as Google Analytics, Mailchimp, SegmentJs, Optimizely, Iterable, etc.
• Experience across both web and mobile technologies

ACEABLE PERKS 

• Join one of Austin's Best Places to Work in 2021 
• Competitive pay and benefits
• Generous time off programs
• Flexible work schedule
• Passionate, high-achieving teammates excited to help you succeed and learn
• Our own space on the top floor of a downtown building
• A team meal every week 
• Fully stocked drink fridges and snacks + cold brew coffee on tap
• Company events & activities (Holiday events, happy hours, quarterly volunteering)
• Free parking spot downtown in our garage 24/7 or a monthly transportation stipend 
• Education stipend ($500/year/employee)
• Free Roadside Assistance subscription
• NOTE: Our team is currently remote due to Covid-19 and we have some awesome virtual perks that come with it (trivia, karaoke, bingo, happy hours, lunch & learns, and more)

At Aceable we celebrate and support all differences. Aceable is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital, disability, and veteran status.