Engineering Manager

About Care.com  

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.  

Care.com offers of an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier.  

Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a common cause. Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you’re all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you.  

Work Environment: Hybrid - We are in the office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
Our office locations:

• Austin - 816 Congress Ave. # 800, 78701
• Dallas - 2801 North Central Expressway, 11th Floor 27524
• Salt Lake City - 1850 Ashton Blvd Suite 500, Lehi, UT 84043

What You'll Be Working On:  

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technology team as an Engineering Manager. The candidate would join a small, agile team responsible for building a platform to support our community team. The candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, programming, testing, documentation, and implementation of new product features. 

• Design and develop an extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed system that uses technologies such as 
• Golang microservices deployed on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh 
• gRPC and GraphQL APIs 
• AWS Lambdas 
• AWS Step Functions & Express Workflows 
• Amazon EventBridge 
• AWS DynamoDB 
• Postgres 
• AWS Cloud Development Kit  
• Kafka 
• Elasticsearch  
• Work with stakeholders in product management to understand business requirements 
• Work with other disciplines to drive cross-functional efforts 
• Shape development processes to promote a high-quality output while continuing to iterate quickly 
• Own and review deliverables for accuracy, quality, performance, and completeness 
• Work with team to create architecture and design documents, project timeline, and user stories 
• Ability to lead and manage a globally distributed development team 
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of members of the team 

What You’ll Need to Succeed: 

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience 
• 1+ years of experience leading a team (team/tech lead) 
• 3+ years hands on experience with React
• Hands on experience with Golang or Ruby is a must
• Experience with Microservices architecture
• Deep experience with AWS
• Ability to thrive as part of a multi-site development team  

For a list of our Perks + Benefits, click here! 

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Company Overview: 

Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world's leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today's families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits. Since 2007, families have relied on Care.com's industry-leading products—from child and elder care to pet care and home care. Care.com is an IAC company (NASDAQ: IAC). 

Salary Range:  $150,000 - $175,000 The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the national salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Care.com’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Care.com provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

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