Senior Engineering Manager, Front-end job

JOB DESCRIPTION About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join our family tree. Backed by history, science, and technology, we?re creating a new world of connection, innovation, and understanding. Whether it?s reuniting long-lost relatives through DNA or unearthing new family stories from historical records, Ancestry empowers life-changing experiences. With over 20 billion digitized historical records, 100 million family trees, and 15+ million DNA kits sold, Ancestry is bringing the power of personal discovery to people around the world.Ever wondered what it takes to build and deliver a highly available, global scale enterprise wide platform with an open source technology stack that simplifies building applications via frameworks such as web-ui kits, style kits and dev libs allowing the uniform delivery of production ready applications for end-users. Further, ever imagined yourself to deliver a developer centric and open platform that provides shared services such as secrets management, authentication, caching and content delivery.?Then join our platforms team if you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, serving our Ancestry customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media. With us you will have the unique opportunity to impact each and every Ancestry developer by enabling them to quickly build, deploy and deliver their applications into production.

What you will do:

You will lead the experiences in engineering the platform with its services and frameworks and enable the technology as a secure, scalable and highly available platform by using a variety of technologies such as AWS, Docker and Angular, React & Java.

Builds, manages and leads a team of highly talented software engineers

Owns technical aspects of software development

Performs hands-on cloud scale architecture, design and development of systems and services and frameworks.

Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms

Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing

Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Identifies continuous improvements for service availability

Works closely with product owners on feature sets that impact platform, services and frameworks

Works with UX & product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

Who you are:

8+ years experience in front end software development

3+ years of leading highly skilled development teams

Experience with design and implementation of?Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS, React, or JS-based build tools like Grunt, Gulp, and Bower

Web server technologies like Node.js, J2EE, Apache, Nginx, ISS, etc

Familiar with agile or other rapid application development methods

Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and to articulate solutions

Ability to think abstractly and deal with problems

Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation

Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software

Bachelor's in CS required, Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred

Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means