Senior Engineering Manager, Emerging Business

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our Emerging Business Division of Upwork. You will direct and oversee our software engineering teams and work with cross functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that exceed our customer's expectations.

Are you a team player with a passion for technology, innovation, and has a drive for excellence? If you're someone with experience in Agile development methodologies, and worked in teams that built products and services in the zero-to-one and one-to-ten space that meet the needs of customers / stakeholders. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Building high-performing product engineering teams by recruiting, coaching, and developing team members and encouraging a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Understanding the needs of the team, knowledge distribution, and operational efficiency gaps to create plans to address the needs, improve efficiencies, and reduce risks.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including product, and design to create and manage the plans for the delivery of a high-quality product on time.
• Oversee the technical vision and foster customer obsession.
• Planning and road mapping to build and lead the delivery of high-impact initiatives.
• Actively contribute to the improvements of processes for managing execution and engineering best practices.
• Receive coaching and help to find opportunities to grow yourself along the management track.
• Rolling up your sleeves and diving deep when necessary.
• Identifying technical risks and opportunities, communicating them with stakeholders, and developing mitigation strategies.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and technologies to identify emerging opportunities.

What it Takes to Catch our Eye:

• Engineering leadership experience as an engineering manager on a full-stack engineering team
• You have hands-on engineering experience(senior level) building code for web & mobile applications at scale
• You have designed and built microservice-based cloud apps and tuned for low-latency and high-reliability
• You have a strong understanding of microservices and distributed system development
• You have experience building or managing teams that built frontend applications utilizing technologies such as Vue, and Nuxt, and working knowledge of Cloud Technologies like AWS.
• You have led teams of about 20 software engineers
• You have a product mindset and curiosity to gain business acumen
• You have experience in Front-End Technologies such as Nuxt, React, Back-end technologies such as Java
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and SaaS applications.
• You have experience partnering with product management, design, and business stakeholders and handled executive-facing communications
• You have been responsible for executive-level communication regarding your teams
• Previous leadership role with executive level communication experience
• Knowledge of software development methodologies such as Agile and Scrum, CI/CD release management and other operational excellence experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex technical issues.

The annual base salary for this position in California and Washington ranges from $164,000 - $250,000. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salary for this position in California and Washington, and individual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, this position is eligible for the annual bonus plan or sales incentive plan and eligibility to participate in our long term equity incentive program

Come change how the world works.

At Upwork, you’ll shape talent solutions for how the world works today. We are a remote-first organization working together to create exciting remote work opportunities for a global community of professionals.  While we have physical offices in San Francisco and Chicago, currently we also support hiring of corporate full-time employees in 19 states in the United States. Please speak with a member of our recruitment team to determine whether you are located in a state in which we are hiring corporate full-time employees. 

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