Manager, Software Engineering (Minneapolis, MN)

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Description

We’re SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, our corporate offices are based in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.

More than 270 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances, and we offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem.

As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use.

Like the smartphone revolution, smart home technology is transforming the way we interact with the world around us. With SmartThings products, we’re reducing global emissions, improving service industries, and creating a safer, smarter planet.

Come be a part of the transformation with us! Do the SmartThings!

About The Team

The Hub Cloud Services (HCS) team handles billions of events through our system daily and millions of commands to users’ homes.

We are responsible for processing commands and events so quickly that it’s indistinguishable to users whether automation runs in the cloud or locally on their local network.

In addition to building and enhancing our event / command pipelines, we own and control the APIs central to our hub and partner hubs.

The hub is the backbone of many modern smart homes, making our team’s APIs and tools central for numerous teams at SmartThings.

Key Responsibilities

This position is based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Minneapolis, MN.

In this role, your primary responsibilities will include the following :

• Demonstrate both people management and software development leadership
• Contribute to strategic planning for the cloud engineering teams
• Lead the team through feature development of mission critical high volume services
• Lead projects across technology teams
• Interact with on site and global teams
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork self-organization, and diversity
• Manage and mentor engineers, meeting with team members to provide frequent feedback, and also evaluate performance
• Offer perspective that drives change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems
• Provide strategic direction that aligns with overall company goals
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Inclusive Hiring Practices

If your skills and experience are close to what we’re looking for, we encourage you to apply. We know that abilities can be developed in many different ways, and some of the most educational paths have twists and turns.

Diversity of thought creates the most creative teams, and we’re passionate about adding new perspectives to the conversation at SmartThings.

Even if you aren’t certain you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply!

What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)

• 5+ years experience in software development
• 3+ years of experience leading software teams and managing performance
• Comfortable managing team members with different skill sets and areas of focus.
• Experience partnering effectively across teams to manage scope, deliverables, and direct stakeholders
• Experience effectively communicating context to the team(s) and managing other internal stakeholders.
• Experience developing web services and cloud technologies at scale
• Understanding of large scale computing solutions, including software design and development, database architectures, cloud computing deployments, security, and performance tuning.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar field
• Ability to travel up to 10-15%

Desired Skills

• Agile Project Management experience
• Experience deploying services into AWS

SmartThings Benefits

We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health;

an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.

• All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave).
• Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O’Reilly.
• Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.

Compensation for this role for a candidate based in Minneapolis is expected to be between $137,778 and $206,667. Additionally, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus potential, depending on company and individual performance.

About SmartThings

Creating a safer, smarter world with you.

SmartThings brings your home to life by being the leading open platform for the consumer Internet of Things. Bringing together developers, device makers, and service providers to make the world a smarter place.

From a door that knows when to lock itself, to a living room that can get the party started or a sink that can help to call a plumber;

the opportunities are endless to make everyday objects around us more useful. So if you’re innovative, not afraid to challenge status quo, collaborative and have a passion for technology, then you’ve found your next home with SmartThings!

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