Senior Engineering Manager - Core Platform Services (f/m/d)
- Confidential
- Dec 05, 2021
Full time
Engineering
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager - Core Platform Services (f/m/d)
London, United Kingdom | Mid-Level | Engineering
(Sr.) Engineering Manager - Core Platform Services (f/m/d)
Location: Remote
About LivePerson
The world's most innovative brands choose LivePerson's Conversational Cloud. Our AI-powered Conversational Cloud has made over a billion brand-to-consumer conversations possible. We make it easy for consumers to ask questions and make purchases in the messaging channels they use every day. We serve 18000+ customers, including leading brands like Citibank, HSBC, Orange, Virgin Atlantic, RBS, and Liberty Global, use our conversational commerce solutions to orchestrate humans and AI, at scale and create a convenient, deeply personal relationship - a conversational relationship - with their millions of consumers.
Over the next three years, our goal is to transform the 268 billion analogue phone calls between a brand, and its consumers to digital on the LiveEngage platform. By doing this, we enable consumers to get back time and experience a more connected relationship with the brand in which sales, service, marketing, branches, stores, and contact centre's become a unified experience.
Engineering at LivePerson is an inspired, customer-obsessed organization, dedicated to building solutions that redefine the Conversational AI industry. We work in small, collaborative, agile, and mission-driven teams, with a clear mission. We empower quality, iterative feedback, testing, monitoring, and end-to-end ownership.
Our engineering teams make some of the most significant decisions, and at scale. Do you want to be part of the next stage of innovation and growth? As an Engineering Manager, you will be the product engineering leader of a mission-driven team, managing engineering, product, and people. We are currently expanding several engineering teams in Conversational Platform Verticals, including; Data Protection & Privacy, Configuration Platform, Monitoring Platform, Payments, Data Exchange to name a few.
Some of the technologies we're using:
Java (8 and 11), JavaScript, TypeScript
Spring, Spring Boot, and Spark Java
Docker, Kubernetes, and Puppet
Apache Kafka
MySQL, Couch base, Cassandra, Elasticsearch
Microservices, event-driven architecture
Vault, OAuth2.0 Provider, and much more
What You Be Doing In This Role:
You will lead in specific problem spaces and use expert knowledge to build features, maintain the platform's stability at LivePerson's scale and continuously increase technical excellence scores.
Lead an engineering team of individual contributors (and engineers), and potentially 1-2 engineering managers.
Work with engineers, group product managers, and stakeholders to ensure valuable contributions, and groom the feature that would define the product's future.
Use the latest technologies to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale.
Plan and execute short-term quarterly plans, and contribute to achieving key results in long-term objectives.
Hire and retain excellent engineers, and help in individual growth plans.
Be part of a team that will take full operational responsibility for the services that you own, and potentially take part in an on-call rotation.
Where your expertise is needed:
Tech Background: Be responsible for shaping the tech vision of the products along with the senior team members. You must have an impressive background in developing mission-critical applications with 99.99% uptime and consider Operational Excellence as an integral part of your responsibility.
People Management: Possess exceptional skills in hiring, developing, and retaining outstanding engineers. You enjoy coaching team members in their career path and nurture future leaders as part of the routine. You attract the right talent and build a culture of autonomy, feedback, and continuous learning, and leverage data-driven approaches to take unbiased decisions.
Team Leadership: Develop an agile engineering culture where team members continuously improve the velocity of the deliverables. You must be decisive, move quickly and with purpose. You value constant, transparent feedback and raise the bar of standard innovation and motivation.
What you need for success:
8+ years of software development experience
Minimum 2 years of people management experience
Exceptional people management skills
Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
Extensive experience in hiring, building, and managing engineering teams.
Knowledge of platform services like Service Discovery, CDN, LDAP, etc.
Knowledge of SLO/SLI/SLAs and managing 99.99% uptime
London, United Kingdom | Mid-Level | Engineering
(Sr.) Engineering Manager - Core Platform Services (f/m/d)
Location: Remote
About LivePerson
The world's most innovative brands choose LivePerson's Conversational Cloud. Our AI-powered Conversational Cloud has made over a billion brand-to-consumer conversations possible. We make it easy for consumers to ask questions and make purchases in the messaging channels they use every day. We serve 18000+ customers, including leading brands like Citibank, HSBC, Orange, Virgin Atlantic, RBS, and Liberty Global, use our conversational commerce solutions to orchestrate humans and AI, at scale and create a convenient, deeply personal relationship - a conversational relationship - with their millions of consumers.
Over the next three years, our goal is to transform the 268 billion analogue phone calls between a brand, and its consumers to digital on the LiveEngage platform. By doing this, we enable consumers to get back time and experience a more connected relationship with the brand in which sales, service, marketing, branches, stores, and contact centre's become a unified experience.
Engineering at LivePerson is an inspired, customer-obsessed organization, dedicated to building solutions that redefine the Conversational AI industry. We work in small, collaborative, agile, and mission-driven teams, with a clear mission. We empower quality, iterative feedback, testing, monitoring, and end-to-end ownership.
Our engineering teams make some of the most significant decisions, and at scale. Do you want to be part of the next stage of innovation and growth? As an Engineering Manager, you will be the product engineering leader of a mission-driven team, managing engineering, product, and people. We are currently expanding several engineering teams in Conversational Platform Verticals, including; Data Protection & Privacy, Configuration Platform, Monitoring Platform, Payments, Data Exchange to name a few.
Some of the technologies we're using:
Java (8 and 11), JavaScript, TypeScript
Spring, Spring Boot, and Spark Java
Docker, Kubernetes, and Puppet
Apache Kafka
MySQL, Couch base, Cassandra, Elasticsearch
Microservices, event-driven architecture
Vault, OAuth2.0 Provider, and much more
What You Be Doing In This Role:
You will lead in specific problem spaces and use expert knowledge to build features, maintain the platform's stability at LivePerson's scale and continuously increase technical excellence scores.
Lead an engineering team of individual contributors (and engineers), and potentially 1-2 engineering managers.
Work with engineers, group product managers, and stakeholders to ensure valuable contributions, and groom the feature that would define the product's future.
Use the latest technologies to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale.
Plan and execute short-term quarterly plans, and contribute to achieving key results in long-term objectives.
Hire and retain excellent engineers, and help in individual growth plans.
Be part of a team that will take full operational responsibility for the services that you own, and potentially take part in an on-call rotation.
Where your expertise is needed:
Tech Background: Be responsible for shaping the tech vision of the products along with the senior team members. You must have an impressive background in developing mission-critical applications with 99.99% uptime and consider Operational Excellence as an integral part of your responsibility.
People Management: Possess exceptional skills in hiring, developing, and retaining outstanding engineers. You enjoy coaching team members in their career path and nurture future leaders as part of the routine. You attract the right talent and build a culture of autonomy, feedback, and continuous learning, and leverage data-driven approaches to take unbiased decisions.
Team Leadership: Develop an agile engineering culture where team members continuously improve the velocity of the deliverables. You must be decisive, move quickly and with purpose. You value constant, transparent feedback and raise the bar of standard innovation and motivation.
What you need for success:
8+ years of software development experience
Minimum 2 years of people management experience
Exceptional people management skills
Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
Extensive experience in hiring, building, and managing engineering teams.
Knowledge of platform services like Service Discovery, CDN, LDAP, etc.
Knowledge of SLO/SLI/SLAs and managing 99.99% uptime
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