Manager, Software Engineering

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The Enterprise Engineering Manager contributes to The Bouq’s mission of creating a world‑class sustainable brand disrupting the global $50B floral industry by working to architect our next generation platform for logistics, planning and data mining that will enable our business to scale having a material impact on the future of our company. You will work directly with various business stakeholders to understand what is needed and be responsible for architecting, designing and developing updates to our service-oriented architecture and future microservices architecture. You will be working with a range of current and new technologies that will help drive our company’s growth. Along the way you will be empowered to use an amazing set of technologies that will help you and the team accomplish the job while providing mentorship to your team. You will be challenged with all of this while maintaining a high availability production environment and performing continuous deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with business stakeholders in self organizing teams to architect, design, and develop new features for our enterprise back-end architecture.
• Working with partnering technology and business teams to ensure rich capabilities are delivered with high functional and engineering quality, on an iterative basis.
• Working closely with your team and other engineering leads, you will help conduct peer review of code and technical designs
• You will be responsible for leading a small team of engineers where you will help them lead the execution of new initiatives, improvement of existing systems, and support of system maintenance and defect resolutions.
• Will provide guidance and support to help your subordinates grow in their career path.
• Support technology applications through their entire lifecycle.
• Review platform performance and optimization across the enterprise system as needed
• You will help support our current enterprise platform, while building out our future platform that will be high performant, scalable, and redundant.

Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of professional development experience. Must have experience driving initiatives across full journey of SDLC
• Production experience with Java applications and JVM application tuning
• Experience with architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, support and troubleshooting distributed applications running in a cloud environment, preferably AWS
• Experience with blocking and async application architectures
• Experience with Message bus infrastructure (Kafka, SQS or Kinesis)
• Relational data modeling experience as well as NOSQL experience, preferably with understanding of advanced concepts (query optimization, serialization, versioning, bulk operations)
• Focus on writing idiomatic code
• Strong awareness and proponent of unit and integration testing
• Deep understanding in one or two technical areas but with a curiosity covering a wide range of topics.
• Experience in agile software development (Scrum or Kanban)
• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Highly motivated tech geek who is a self/quick learner with an amplitude to think outside the box.
• Professional attitude towards your peers, as well as everyone in the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with different groups
• Technical, thorough, and detailed oriented.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Spring / Spring Boot
• Experience developing actor model applications in Scala using the Akka toolkit
• Experience with Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, or ElasticSearch
• Experienced in practices of Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery
• Experience with Docker / ECS / Kubernetes or other Containerization of services
• Experience with Serverless Application Model for AWS including Lambda
• Familiarity in the domain of Logistics or Enterprise Resource Planning or similar operational systems

Compensation:

• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• Health, Dental & Vision with 100% employee coverage
• Three Weeks Paid Vacation
• Discounts on The World’s Best Flowers (obviously!)
• Work on cutting edge new technologies
• Cold brew coffee, beer on tap, and fully stocked state of the art kitchen with a fabulous indoor / outdoor lunch area.

About The Bouqs: Our mission here at The Bouqs is to revolutionize the way we commemorate life’s moments by connecting people to beautifully designed flowers and the responsible partners who create them. Grounded in transparency, responsibility, and simplicity, we create genuine moments of emotional connection for our customers, build meaningful relationships with like-minded farmers and florists while empowering them to thrive, and eliminate unnecessary waste along the way.

Founded in 2012, The Bouqs is a venture-backed online floral retailer that delivers flowers fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms to doorsteps nationwide. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, CA, The Bouqs connects farms and a curated network of artisan florists directly to consumers and disrupts the traditional supply chain by eliminating overhead costs like warehouses, importers, distributors, auctioneers and more. In turn, this model enables a superior product and redefines the experience and economics for both consumers and producers alike.

For more information, visit www.bouqs.com and follow the #BouqLove on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

The Bouqs is an Equal Opportunity Employer!

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