Software Engineering Manager

Overview Job Title Software Engineering Manager Hybrid 3x a week - NYC In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week. About The Team | The Team and/or Brand: People Inc. is a leading digital media company that owns and operates a portfolio of brands including Allrecipes, BHG, MyRecipes, Food & Wine and more. It reaches millions of users globally and drives growth and engagement across its platforms. Role focus: A Software Engineering Manager focused on front-end development with mentorship, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. You will work in an Agile environment to support and expand the search and recommendation services across the Home and Food brands. As the technology leader on your scrum team, you will help set technical direction, implement ideas in code, and collaborate with other groups within the organization. Responsibilities Manage and mentor front-end developers on your team, to grow their skills and prepare them for increased responsibility. Prototype and develop responsive and elegant cross-platform functionality on a custom server-side component framework, built on Java but leveraging SCSS, Freemarker templates, and ES6 on the front-end, with VueJS increasingly used for more interactive components. Contribute to / maintain People Inc.'s commitment to highly performant sites. Research new technologies to solve problems and improve existing systems. Lead discussions about project architecture and technical feasibility, make decisions, and justify your development approach. Work in close collaboration with the business and product stakeholders to launch new features while maintaining engineering standards. Organize, track and lead the paying down of technical debt. Develop Looker Views and Models to democratize access to data products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, ML, Backend) to scope and build ML-powered UI experiences. Create and manage ML ops workflows or ML infrastructure. Experience with ingesting raw data with Fivetran and Python and surface in BigQuery for production use. Own technical decisions involving front-end performance, architecture, and reliability. Guide and support Elasticsearch integration for user-facing search functionality. Qualifications 7+ years in a front-end or full stack web development position. 3+ years managing engineers. High levels of skill with HTML, CSS, SCSS, and vanilla Javascript; significant experience with one or more other languages. Significant experience with at least one server-side templating language (e.g., JSP, Twig, Python, or Handlebars) or experience with a component-based web framework with server-side templating (e.g., Vue+Nuxt). Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar search tools. Experience with at least one cloud service platform (GCP and AWS preferred). Experience with data at scale using Apache Spark, Beam or similar framework. Familiar with data streaming architectures (Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka). Experience with web performance standards and Google's Core Web Vitals. Proven track record of working with 3rd party APIs and integrating them into web applications. Ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly requirements and vice versa. Comfort with modern collaborative Agile+Scrum SDLC tools (Git, Jira, etc). EEO statement and compliance: It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing . The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please visit the official E-Verify website. Pay Range Salary: New York: $180,000 - $200,000 The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary based on location, experience, and performance. This range is one component of People Inc's total compensation package, which may include bonuses and incentives. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, parental leave, 401K with company match, and other voluntary benefits depending on location. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-10-08