Engineering Manager, Software Development

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.   We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.   Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

The hands-on Engineering Manager, Software Development is responsible to LEAD, design and build highly scalable system to support Lucid Cloud and IoT backend. 

The Role:
- Design develop and enhance cloud-based microservice architecture for mission-critical operations
- Web UI/UX Design and development  
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, GoLang, MQTT, Rest API, TSL, SSL  
- Hands-on in engineering and ability to deep dive into coding   
- Create and maintain Architecture, Design, Troubleshooting, Deployment, Configuration documents  
- Make key technical implementation decisions and help guide engineering vision   
- Provide technical leadership and experience to a growing team of engineers  
- Develop frameworks, services, and the necessary tooling to help other engineers build on top   
- Evangelize good code and solid engineering practices   
- Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems  
- Lead by example with well designed, factored, and tested code  
- Develop, communicate, and evangelize the long-term technical vision and roadmap for data storage, ingestion, and retrieval in collaboration with the technical leads
- Drive the technical and strategic vision for our data integration infrastructure in order to meet current and future needs for scale and interoperability

Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related program
- 3+ years of professional software engineering management experience   
- 7+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of microservice architecture.   
- Ability to cultivate a strong sense of ownership, and build a culture of accountability in your team
- Openness to new or different ideas and ability to evaluate multiple approaches and choose the best one based on fundamental qualities and supporting data
- Ability to communicate highly technical problems and solutions at all levels from engineers to top leadership
- Proven track record of building high functioning teams, setting technical vision, and delivering results in a collaborative, cross-functional organization.
- Experience with Cloud Native Platforms including Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker, or Cloud Foundry in the public cloud  
- Experience with Containers and/or Serverless, Microservices, Functions, Event-driven/reactive programming or other Cloud Native architectures  
- Experience deploying systems into a production Cloud Native Environment  
- Experience with DevOps and Agile engineering practices  
- Experience building scalable, highly available service-oriented architectures.   
- Experience with NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra and MongoDB  
- Hands-on knowledge of container orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes   
- Should have a sound understanding of distributed systems and its paradigms.  
- Working knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP/UDP, MQTT, REST, etc.  

Salary Range: The compensation range for this position is specific to the locations listed below and is the range Lucid reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.   Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs.  (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, inclu