Technical Manager Mobile Web Team (Newton, IN)

Technical Manager Mobile Web Team

Technical Manager Mobile Web Team The world s largest travel site is looking for a dynamic passionate and effective Technical Manager in our Mobile team. You will be responsible for building and leading a team delivering fun and useful features on Mobile. We aren t necessarily looking for mobile experts just a great leader who is excited about mobile and fearless about picking up new technologies. We reach 280 million unique visitors each month in 45 countries and are looking for someone who gets excited by working at this scale. We re rocketing up the hockey stick playing with the coolest toys and working on interesting problems that engage both the technical and aesthetic sides of the brain. We move quickly - projects are short (generally 3-7 days) and we have a new full release every week. You ll drive shipping code daily and weekly and the features you will help deliver will be used by millions of people every day. All programmers work on the full stack - from native code to the presentation layer through the servers down to the database. They are well known for having an extremely strong engineering organization - you ll be working with the best and getting stuff done in the fastest growing area of an incredibly profitable growing fun company. The Mobile team is responsible for iOS and Android apps our API and our mobile website. The Facts On mobile They have over 108 million average monthly unique visitors doubling year-over-year Our apps are used in 237 countries and have been download over 128 million times We have over 3.5 million unique users engineer among the highest in the industry As mobile devices are replacing desktops and laptops as the standard for browsing the web we have a unique opportunity as well as the market position to capitalize on enormous monetization potential Qualifications You have at least a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent You show a sense of ownership and pride in your role as a leader and you can make us believe you ll excel You have consistently exceeded expectations throughout your career and you can describe specific activities and projects that demonstrate this behavior You can manage a team towards long-term goals while delivering new capabilities daily You have the ability to work with everyone from engineers to product owners to C-level executives to help communicate prioritize influence and inform key product decisions You have successfully hired and built teams including interviewing on-boarding and mentoring (either at a small or large company) You find the live operations of your team s code fulfilling and worth getting right It would be great if you had in-depth and hands-on knowledge of Linux Java JavaScript and related open source technologies such as Apache Tomcat PostgreSQL and Hadoop Experience developing mobile websites is definitely a plus Startup experience a definite plus