Front-End Engineering Manager

Unlock your inner voice. The one that knows you can do it. The one to listen to more. Unlock that desire you’ve always had to achieve something bigger. Take the leap. Join a team of diverse individuals who thrive by conquering new frontiers and working in different ways. Learn, grow, and then learn some more in a hyper-growth environment. Develop your voice, your ideas, your ability to help others. People at Rokt aren't inspired by job titles, they are inspired by other people. Unleash all the possibilities. At Rokt, you’ll unlock your full potential.

About Rokt

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology. We unlock revenue for companies by using AI and machine learning to present highly relevant offers to each shopper, personalizing the online shopping experience and maximizing the value of each transaction moment. Uber, Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Hulu, Staples, Lands’ End, GoPuff, HelloFresh are among the more than 2,500 leading global businesses and advertisers relying on Rokt’s technology to increase engagement, revenue and customer acquisition.

With our December 2022 secondary transaction, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 billion. We are expanding rapidly and operating in 15 countries across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific with the largest office in NYC and a major R&D hub in Sydney. With consistent hyper growth ahead of the market and a vibrant company culture, Rokt has been listed in ‘Great Places to Work’ in the US and Australia.

About Rokt’stars

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.

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 contract design and stewardship, AWS cloud-based infrastructure.
• Learn quickly: demonstrated ability to quickly understand and absorb new information. Passion for technology and eager to dive in to figure out how things work.
• Problem-solving skills: able to use first principles - using both qualitative and quantitative data - to solve complex problems.
• Leadership: organise and motivate engineering contributors, work with the product team to schedule in an efficient and productive manner, understand business logic and be able to translate into appropriate technical solutions
• Excellent communication skills in English - you can explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing.
• At Rokt we encourage autonomy; teams have complete ownership of their systems including building, running and monitoring. As such, you may be required to be on-call and respond to system alerts should they arise.
• Ideas, opinions, and the ability to share them through respectful proposals, presentations, and team-wide discussions, An eagerness to work and learn in the open and share your learnings with your teammates.
• A willingness and comfort in communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools

Benefits

• Work with the greatest talent in tech. Our recruitment process is tough but diligent. We’re constantly aiming to implement our value of “raise the bar” and set high standards for our Rokt’stars. This is essential in our high-performing, high-grow culture where we strive to bring in the brightest and best talent. Our teams thrive by challenging the status quo and we encourage all of our teams to unlock their desire to achieve something bigger.

• Join a community. At Rokt we’re a community of curious explorers. We’re not afraid of venturing into uncharted territories. We work together as one single, aligned team. We value diversity and transparency which is why we support a number of internal employee resource groups including an EDI steering committee, Rainbow Rokts that empowers our LGBTQIA+ Rokt’stars, and Womxn who Rokt that promotes gender equality in tech.
• Accelerate your career. We want you to unlock your full potential. This is why we have an annual ‘Level Up’ allowance of $5,000 that gives Rokt’stars the ability to take courses, attend events, go to training, and more to help our great employees become even better.
• Take a break. When you work hard, we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and parental leave policies, as well as mental health and wellness days for all employees. We even incentivize individuals to utilize their PTO with “High 5” days, an additional 5 days of PTO when you’ve used 75% of your allotted annual paid leave. We also offer a paid Rokt’star Sabbatical for employees who have been with us for 5 years or more.
• Become a shareholder. All Rokt’stars have stock options. If we succeed, everyone is rewarded.
• See the world! We want our Rokt’stars to enjoy the ride. As we aim to bring meaning and fun to our everyday work, we host global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020, Hawaii in May 2022, and Whistler in 2023). As we strive to build a community of curious explorers, we also offer generous relocation packages for those interested in moving to another Rokt office. We have bustling offices in great cities including: New York,Seattle, Sydney, London, and Tokyo.
• We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (all teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.
• We believe in equality. Rokt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we know our collective strength comes from how different we all are. We encourage you to apply for one of our open roles—irrespective of socio-economic status or background, age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, pregnancy, carer/family responsibilities, national and social origin, political opinion, marital, veteran, or disability status.

Salary Range - $270,000 - $300,000 AUD per year plus equity and benefits

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