DigitalOcean

We’re looking for a motivated Engineering Manager to lead our Brand and Web Experience team. Working closely with the Product Manager and with technical and business leaders across DigitalOcean, you will provide critical leadership to ensure a world class brand presence through the engineering and presentation of our public facing properties. By playing a key role in engineering processes and best practices, you will provide guidance and mentorship to a team of dedicated and enthusiastic engineers. The ideal candidate should have deep roots in leading full stack engineering teams delivering world-class web experiences, while building strong partnerships with stakeholders and senior leadership.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and mentor a team of frontend and full-stack engineers, fostering growth and technical excellence.
• Oversee the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and engineering standards.
• Be hands-on and provide input to software architecture, design, and optimization of scalable full-stack software solutions, including developing technical strategy and roadmap for our internal systems like our CMS, tooling, open source software, deployment strategy, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with product, design, UX, marketing and other technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop and refine processes and tools to improve team performance, quality-of-life, as well as product performance and quality.
• Career coaching including performance assessment, and career development.

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• 9+ years of software development experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or equivalent role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Javascript, Typescript, or Go. Experience with React.js, Next.js and Node.js will go a long way in this role.
• Experience with foundational backend and infrastructure technologies, like PostgresSQL, Nginx, CI/CD and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of full-stack architecture, performance optimization, and scalability principles within an Enterprise-class software system.
• Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs.
• Experience developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers.
• Experience with staffing, interviewing, building, and retaining teams.
• Experience conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats to get buy-ins from diverse stakeholders.
• Ideal candidates have experience in networking and internet engineering best practices.

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions. 
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
• This is role is located in Hyderabad, India

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