Dev Manager

Postal is an offline marketing automation platform and marketplace that helps personalize, automate, and scale direct mail, internal and external events, branded company swag, and personalized gifts to drive better engagement with prospects, customers, partners, and employees.

With over $200B spent annually in B2B offline engagement, Postal’s expansive vendor marketplace, flexible integrations, and comprehensive events portal help companies drive brand loyalty, increase conversions, boost overall employee happiness, and improve customer health scores.

Every business in the world can use Postal.

Postal has raised over $30m in two rounds over the last 24 months from top tier investors Mayfield Fund (Marketo, Outreach) and OMERS Capital (Shopify, Crunchbase). Partners include Salesforce, Hubspot, Adobe, Outreach, Saleloft, Amazon, and Shopify. 

Our nationally recognized founding team has led multiple high-growth startups to over a $1B in market value and exits. Employees come from all walks of life and from various locations across the US and enjoy a comfortable work/life balance. Our headquarters are based in San Luis Obispo, CA and we are focused on taking care of employees, customers, and partners.

Postal is looking for an experienced Dev Manager to lead our growing engineering teams as they design, implement, deploy and operate our offline marketing platform. You’ll be a key member of the engineering team and be the driver for the success of the applications your team creates.

Responsibilities

• Directs the activities of a software systems development function, software applications development function, and a software quality assurance function for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools

• Oversee the analysis, design, delivery, and evolution of web application

• Build DevOps and SRE capabilities for the system in production

• Builds relationships with product managers, marketing, sales, and users to enable development teams to more effectively prioritize requirements and delivery efforts

• Grow the organization through effective hiring, coaching and development of distributed team members 

• Provide clear, consistent leadership, management and mentoring for direct reports and the broader technology organization

• Inspire, empower and motivate the organization, leading by example

• Interact with executives and/or major customers to establish and communicate a technical vision for our data capture platform

• Proven leadership in driving and growing several agile software development teams across multiple engineering managers

• Proven leadership scaling application development teams that are self organizing, loosely coupled, yet highly aligned

• Technical experience with Web Applications, designing and consuming RESTful API’s for web applications, Google Cloud/AWS services, microservices and automated test frameworks

• Ability to be hands on when needed and drive design and architectural decisions

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree; or a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 8+ years proven experience working as a software engineer and 2+ years of management experience

• Experience leading software engineering teams building web applications and API’s

• Experience mentoring the next generation of engineering leaders in an organization

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

At Postal we believe in a strong work/life/spiritual balance that only comes with a strong company culture that supports its people to do their best work.  We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do have high expectations for our team and we ask that they have the same for us. 

We embrace people for who they are, and believe that diversity, inclusion and belonging are our greatest strengths. Perks include continuous learning opportunities, healthcare benefits, unlimited PTO, team outings, volunteer opportunities, and more.