Senior Manager Engineering

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About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line: video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

Position Overview

The Brightcove engineering culture is tailored to software professionals who enjoy solving challenging product development problems. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a small, self-organized group responsible for building and maintaining a high availability, cloud-based video encoding platform.

Job Responsibilities

Manage multiple highly-focused and effective global teams of 3-6 engineers.

Foster an effective, accountable and self-organizing team culture.

Hire and mentor world-class engineers - develop good engineers into great engineers.

Lead and deliver key engineering initiatives.

Coach teams by fostering best practices, such as design thinking, build/test automation, code reviews, metrics/data driven decisions, etc.

Identify and implement development process and methodology improvements to increase the quality of work products.

Work with Customer Support and Account Management to respond to customer impacting issues.

Work with Product Management and Product Marketing to contribute to the strategic direction of the products and roadmaps.

Be the champion of your teams.

Qualifications/Experience

5 years of software engineering leadership experience.

3 years experience with Agile methodologies and best practices.

3 years experience with cloud technologies including scaling and availability best practices; experience with AWS preferred.

Understanding of the full software delivery lifecycle: from developing and testing code to deployment and monitoring.

Ability to hire and develop software engineers.

Strategic thinker who sees big picture opportunities and can identify cross functional synergies and dependencies.

Architecture and hands-on software engineering background.

Understanding of building large scale, distributed, high availability systems.

Ability to adapt to changing priorities and market conditions.

Working at Brightcove

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive compensation, stock options, 401k matching, and tuition reimbursement, as well as unlimited PTO - and we expect you to use it!

We are currently all working remotely due to Covid-19, but this role is located in our Boston office which is located downtown, in Fort Point harbor. The office has an open working space layout with beautiful water views. Employees enjoy access to fully-stocked kitchens and social activities including: happy hours, trivia and movie nights, ping pong tournaments, and philanthropy events. We celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, and many more!

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

Company info

Brightcove Inc.
Website : http://www.brightcove.com