Engineering Manager

**Engineering Manager**
**About Upfluence**

Upfluence helps brands tell their story with powerful influencer & content marketing technology. Upfluence’s software allows brands and agencies to identify and contact millions of social influencers and bloggers at scale to execute comprehensive influencer marketing campaigns, as well as provide detailed reporting metrics. Since the launch of our SaaS software in October 2016, the company has yielded a monthly double-digit growth rate, and we are therefore seeking further expansion for our team and offices. Our rapidly growing global team is currently distributed between our offices in NYC, Los Angeles, Switzerland, Lyon, and Paris. Also offering fully remote work structure in most major cities, offering local employment contracts through our PEO partner.

**What we do**
- Our platform aggregates, keeps up to date, and serves the content of 5M influencers across all trending social networks of the internet. This raises a certain amount of engineering challenges related to data, scalability, and performance. At the scale we’re at, the naïve solution often isn’t enough.
- Our backend stack is focused around Golang/Ruby as programming languages, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra as database systems, Elasticsearch as a search engine, RabbitMQ as message broker. Also, we use Apache Thrift for RPC and Prometheus for monitoring to name a few.
- We’re firm believers of micro-service architecture and domain-driven design, making our codebase highly flexible and reusable. Some parts of our production have actually been running for more than 5 years
- We’re DevOps-minded. Our backend engineers ship to production multiple times a day and are responsible for their production. We’re always working towards reducing the maintenance toil by automating as much as possible our processes using tools like Github actions or our own in-house frontend deployer.
- We’re product-centric: we’re not writing code for the sake of it, but to provide the best service to our customers.
- We strongly believe that collective intelligence is the very root of success for an engineering organization. Each and everyone has a word to say regarding the technical implementation of a feature. That’s why we rely on tools like proposals and RFCs to encourage this culture, as the best companies in the field do.
- We love open source and contribute to it by opening our own libraries to share them with as many people as possible.

**Responsibilities**
- Own engineering hiring effort, from working with the CTO to plan hiring roadmaps
- Manager, mentor, and grow a small team of top-tier engineers working across the stack: frontend and backend micro services
- Work with Product Managers, Designer, CTO and Heads of CS and Sales to identify customer needs, generate requirements and plan implementation, ensuring appropriate staffing to deliver according to agreed timeline
- Draft design documents, write code, and conduct code reviews as needed to keep the team moving forward while new engineers onboard
- Set goals and conduct retrospectives to continuously improve the development process and increase delivery cadence.

**What we are looking for**
- Recent, deep experience contributing to an active codebase
- A track record of hiring and developing top-tier engineers into performing teams
- A strong sense of ownership, typified by effective autonomy, good judgment, and bias for action
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills, for both engineers and non-technical peers
- Recent, substantive experience working with Golang
- Experience working with microservices deployed to a cloud environment like GCP or AWS

**What we have to offer**
- Your spot with the team in one of our awesome Lyon offices, or even remote, either way is fine with us. You’ll be answering issues on Github and making bad jokes on Discord anyway
- An entrepreneurial and dynamic startup environment with room for growth;
- A mixed and international team (10+ nationalities);
- An empowering and autonomous position in an entrepreneurial environment;
- Regular exchanges with the US/FR offices;
- Stock options
- The answer to life, the universe, and everything;
- Join a motivated and growing team
- We offer a flexible hybrid work model, providing our employees with an office setting, the option to work from home, and even fully remote structures. We believe in work-life balance and provide access so we can make the best of our workdays._
- Upfluence is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees._