Engineering Manager – New York Full Time

About LeafLink
LeafLink is the regulated cannabis industry’s largest wholesale marketplace, providing licensed dispensaries the ability to order from their favorite brands, as well as a suite of software tools for those brands to manage and scale their operations.

With over 3,400 retailers and more than 1,200 brands across 22 territories in the US and Canada, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink annually processes and manages more than $1 billion in wholesale cannabis orders – you can learn more about our history and path to $1B here http://firstbillion.leaflink.com/.

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC’s, is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Built In NYC’s ‘Best Places to Work in 2019’, as well as one of Fast Company’s ‘Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2018’, joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare – and we’re just getting started!

The Role
LeafLink is seeking an Engineering Manager to join our New York team who is passionate about building high-performing teams and products. Overseeing multiple cross-functional pods and products, this role will partner closely with our product team to deliver features and new architecture to a growing platform of B2B services. This role will involve managing a team of talented engineers as well as have a hands-on, lasting impact on our platform architecture, new and existing service offerings, standards and processes within the department, and our company growth and expansion roadmaps.

LeafLink is currently gearing up to tackle a large-scale platform overhaul that will strengthen our position as a technical leader within the industry. As such, this role has the opportunity to help shape and grow this new platform and the engineers who work on it, as well as to work within new and growing technologies and concepts such as Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS managed services, aggregate document stores, containerized and serverless design patterns, and service-oriented architectures. It’s a very exciting time to join our engineering team!

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this role will be responsible for managing a team of engineers, overseeing career growth and day-to-day operations for both them as well as two of our cross-functional product-focused pods. The role is flexible in terms of management vs hands-on development split, but candidates should expect to work in a wide variety of capacities within the department, ranging from providing technical leadership through overseeing architectural vision, implementation, and iteration, leading and mentoring by example through code reviews and direct feedback, and interacting with their direct reports to ensure career pathing remains on track and impediments to process are remediated quickly and sustainably.

Ideal candidates for this role possess the ability to organize, manage, and deliver complex projects not only from an engineering and architecture perspective but also by implementing and iterating on team processes that promote collaboration and general cohesiveness among team members. Additionally, candidates will be well placed if they enjoy finding, hiring, and growing strong technical talent and working to grow and foster a culture that’s both inclusive and values the diversity of its members. This role comes with the opportunity to be a high performer within a department that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

The responsibilities described below are representative of those the person in this role would be performing, but should not be considered an exhaustive list – this position is extremely flexible in terms of its areas of focus!

Responsibilities:
Mentor and manage a team of engineers, focusing on both their day-to-day responsibilities as members of the engineering department and also their career growth, interpersonal and leadership skills, and future-facing goals
Develop short and long term strategic goals to continue to push LeafLink’s technology offerings forward
Plan, lead, and deliver product and projects that focus on those efforts, partnering closely with product leaders and external stakeholders
Establish clear goals and success criteria for the various projects being worked on so KPIs can be measured and reported accurately to determine project health
Participate in and lead quarterly OKR planning and execution sessions with both your direct reports and your pod team members, working closely with department leadership to craft challenging-but-reachable goals for each
Run regular engineering-focused meetings and events to ensure alignment and knowledge transfer both intra-department and externally to the rest of the company
Interview and contribute to the growth of the engineering team, focusing on finding and then retaining candidates that will continue to elevate and diversify our ever-expanding set of in-house engineering talent
Work closely with off / nearshore technical talent as they continue to help LeafLink deliver and iterate on our wide range of product offerings
Set and drive process and architectural standards that reflect the unique complexities of LeafLink’s business model while also complementing existing and ongoing work within other areas of the department
Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense
Understand and utilize knowledge around the difficulties faced by LeafLink’s engineering team in order to make informed technology decisions and architectural approaches when implementing new functionality
Oversee and contribute meaningfully to various projects and initiatives within the department, helping to mentor and grow the technical competencies of the team through code reviews and active development
Partner effectively with other teams within the department that are responsible for supporting various applications and products today
Help cultivate and advance a collaborative culture that values ownership and finding the best solution to a given problem while also emphasizing the importance of testing and automation
Take a data-driven approach to product development and iteration, and help continue to advocate and assist other departments in doing the same
Advocate for and deliver well-balanced solutions to technical issues as they arise based on a constantly-evolving product roadmap
Analyze and evaluate existing solutions within the company and help drive decisions on whether to extend or refactor as needed
Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and help craft solutions that move our various platforms forward
Help coordinate and communicate project estimations to the rest of the management team as well as stakeholders
Qualifications:
A strong leader with proven experience leading, growing, and mentoring teams of engineers
A passion for building and retaining teams of individuals that are highly motivated and excited about the work they’re contributing to
Experience working to expand and strengthen community outreach and other diversity-focused initiatives
Experience working in and advocating for agile environments
Experience managing product and project process, resourcing, timelines, and delivery efforts with cross-functional teams
Extensive experience leading and contributing to high-functional, large scale architecture
Experience working in service-oriented, API-driven application tech stacks and working knowledge of the challenges and gotchas that can bring to the SDLC
Experience architecting, building, and delivering highly-performant APIs and supplemental applications
Experience working within e-commerce, B2B, and their ancillary systems as well as their mobile counterparts
Experience working within environments that rely heavily on automation, CI, and CD concepts to rapidly deliver, measure, and iterate on products and features
Experience within containerized, serverless, and event-driven infrastructure, Kubernetes, document databases, and AWS
Exceptional written and oral communication skills
Exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills, possessing the ability to quickly understand and ideate on complex systems and their associated data
Passionate about product-focused, data-driven decision-making and continuous iteration
Experience communicating estimations and project visibility to senior management and stakeholders
An active member of the open-source and New York tech community a plus
An interest in the cannabis industry and / or the LeafLink brand
Benefits:
Generous PTO
Fun office environment
Competitive salary
Benefit Matching (medical, dental, vision)
401k Offered
Stock options
Team events