Socialive is an enterprise video creation & live streaming software company based in El Segundo, California. Our powerful yet intuitive platform makes it refreshingly easy to capture, create, and distribute video. We empower teams across the organization, including marketing, internal comms, and learning & development – and we're helping drive the video commerce revolution. Socialive customers include startups to the Fortune 100 – such as J.P. Morgan, Walmart, Pfizer, Adobe, and Audible. We're on a mission to radically simplify how the world makes video. Join us.

About our Team:

Our company culture is top priority and we strive to create an environment where all of our team members are empowered to do their best work. We’re proud of the collaborative culture we’ve built, even while working fully remote. We also understand that in order to be your best self you need time to relax and recharge. That’s why we encourage everyone at Socialive to take Mental Health Days each month, in addition to their PTO and our company-wide holiday shutdown. 

With our distributed, remote-first team culture we’ve had the opportunity to incorporate diverse thoughts, values, and perspectives that have been critical to our growth. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is at the heart of Socialive’s success and we celebrate it in everything we do. Our mission is to be a leader in DEI and demonstrate what it truly means to be a place where all people can be bold and the best version of themselves.

The Position:

Socialive is seeking a senior engineering manager for our product engineering team as we expand and grow. As a senior engineering manager, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading a cross-functional scrum team of frontend, platform, mobile, and quality engineers to deliver exciting new functionality while fostering a team identity of positivity and collaboration in a fully remote work environment
• Instilling a focus on user experience and business value in every step of planning, design, implementation, and support
• Work with our internal recruitment team and senior leadership to source, screen, interview, and hire senior and intermediate engineers for your team
• Mentoring the engineers on your team and coaching your direct reports in their career growth
• Owning the quality and reliability of the projects delivered by your team
• Working with our team of engineering leaders and product managers to estimate and deliver critical features while reducing risk, maintaining quality, identifying dependencies, and supporting deliverables across the entire product space

• Leading the team’s focus on best-in-class engineering principles and process, from code architecture and quality to agile processes and ceremonies
• Maintaining a significant presence in the day-to-day engineering, including working hands-on with code contributions, code reviews, and supporting features in production

Technologies you’ll work with and experience you’ll ideally bring:

• Leadings projects across frontend Javascript/React, native mobile apps, and backend services in Java/Spring, Javascript, and Python utilizing native AWS technologies
• Breaking down complex work for implementation by your team, and working with peers to track cross-team dependencies
• Owning the backlog, tracking execution, and utilizing metrics to guide your team to become more efficient, predictable, and successful
• Adopting and driving a test-forward approach with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Working with Atlassian tools (Bitbucket/Git, Jira, Confluence)
• Working with CI/CD and observability tooling
• Managing WebRTC connections and streams in a responsive, dynamic layout
• Hosting and supporting applications in AWS

• Superior cross-functional leadership, communication, and documentation skills

This position is 100% remote, based in the US.