Front-End Engineering Manager
Rokt, Australia

Rokt is the global leader in eCommerce technology, helping companies seize the full potential of every transaction moment to grow revenue and acquire new customers at scale. Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, Staples, Lands’ End, and HelloFresh are among the more than 2,500 leading global businesses and advertisers that are using Rokt's solutions to drive more value through every transaction by offering highly relevant messages to their customers at the moment they are most likely to convert.

With our December 2022 secondary transaction, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 Billion. We are expanding rapidly and globally operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with the largest office in NYC and a major Ramp;D hub in Sydney. With 50% annual growth and vibrant company culture, Rokt has been listed in ‘Great Places to Work’ in the US and Australia. Our award-winning culture is guided by our eight core values: smart with humility, own the outcomes, force for good, conquer new frontiers, enjoy the ride, raise the bar, communicate with impact, and disagree then commit. These values help us attract, engage, and develop the right talent around the globe and ensure we foster an environment that helps us all do our best work. Keen to join a fast-growing company and a vibrant culture? Learn more at rokt.com.

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class eCommerce technology that provides personalised and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which gives engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are expanding rapidly in our major Ramp;D centres in NYC and Sydney. We are passionate about using intelligent systems to improve the transaction moment for retailers everywhere. Come join us and build the future!

As a hands on engineering manager in our Web Integrations and Front-End team, you will be leading an autonomous team, owning a large part of our Web SDK offering, with a specific focus on developing scalable frameworks, plugins and massive front-end integrations for our biggest clients, working closely with launch engineering and solutions engineering teams to produce the best platform for the biggest names in ecommerce and advertising.

A deep understanding of how to build and maintain systems at a global scale is key to this role, and the desire to get deep into the architecture now and into the future would be ideal. Having experience working on large scale is ideal, as our front end systems and web integrations serve billions of unique customer experiences every year, a number that is growing considerably year on year.

Leading a team of really great engineers, you'll need solid experience as an engineering manager who can develop and lead engineers up to a Staff/Principal level, while still playing a key role in the architecture and day to day code, so a desire to be hands on with React/TypeScript and front end architecture is essential.

• Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of massive web integrations
• Manage and develop a team of autonomous and high performing engineers
• Cut production level code that can be built upon by your team and the wider Rokt organisation
• Identifying and proposing improvements to the current system architecture that emphasise reliability and scalability
• Design, develop, test, deploy and improve code that solves real-world problems
• Own complex product features end to end - with a focus on customer impact
• Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Operate with autonomy in solving problems
• Collaborate with other teams to deliver new products
• Create fast, scalable and easy-to-use applications
• Build libraries and frameworks that others can use
• Take responsibility for system health, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD pipelines
• Support and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and quality

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in commercial software development experience designing, building and operating large scale web integrations and 4+ years of experience in managing engineering teams
• Polyglot engineer with commercial experience in one of the following: TypeScript, React or Vue. You have written a lot of performant easy-to-maintain code using best practices. You can smell bad code and provide constructive feedback during code review.
• Strong complex system architecture design experience and understanding; space/time complexity, API

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