Engineering Manager

Real is a fast-growing national real estate brokerage powered by technology. Real is currently operating in all U.S. states, Canada, and the District of Columbia. Founded in 2014, Real is a trailblazer in the Residential Real Estate industry, as we lead the disruption with our cutting-edge technology platform. We are on a mission to revolutionize the home-buying and selling process, making agents' lives better while creating lucrative financial opportunities for them.

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Job Summary:

As an Engineering Manager, you will be reporting to our VP, Engineering and would be a key member of Real’s R&D team. You will help lead the overall technical vision for all things back end, implementing features, squash bugs, and make improvements across our Java Spring Microservices while leading our team of engineers. If you are self-motivated, and a tech expert to join a results-oriented team, we encourage you to join us. 

Schedule: MUST be willing to work Eastern (EST) time zone hours, regardless of location

Benefits: https://onereal.widen.net/s/bd8gdnhcnn/tech---benefits-of-working-at-real-5

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Mentor, coach, and grow an outstanding team of engineers so that they are happy, resilient, engaged and thriving.

• Advocate and manage modern software development practices within the team and promote new engineering and organizational practices.

• Maintain operational excellence and efficient delivery of projects and systems for the team.

• Take a hands-on role in helping manage the team’s infrastructure, from Kubernetes to our CI/CD pipelines, to ensure an efficient delivery pipeline.

• While not managing, you will contribute to the codebase; implement features, squash bugs, and make improvements across our Java Spring microservices. We imagine 50% of your time will be spent being hands-on.

• Help lead the overall technical vision and strategy for all things Back End.

• Collaborate with other engineers through pairing sessions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing in our weekly Friday Dev Chats.

• Mentor and lead other team members in software engineering methodology, design, and best practices.

• Work with the product team and feature owners to understand requirements and see them through to execution and deployment.

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• You are an experienced engineering manager, with at least 12 years of experience managing high performing software teams.

• You have extensive experience with Java 11+, Spring Boot, JPA (Hibernate), and SQL relational databases.

• You are a hands-on experienced backend engineer with Spring / Spring Boot as an individual contributor.

• You have hands-on experience building applications using the microservices architecture.

• You have in-depth knowledge of relational databases, including indices, connection pools, transactions (ACID), and implications of schema designs on performance.

• You are opinionated in the direction that backend software development is going and will give recommendations and take the initiative for the long-term health of the project.

• You are welcoming to other engineers, have a collaborative attitude, and are excited to both learn and teach new knowledge.

• You enjoy working with a remote team that spans many different time zones and locations.

• You are comfortable in an agile, fast-paced startup environment where you work closely with product to understand how your work will fit into the larger project while acting on limited information.

Our Tech Stack

• Java 11+

• Spring Boot

• Postgres

• Kafka

• DynamoDB

• AWS

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Datadog

• Bugsnag

• ArgoCD

• TeamCity

We are empowered through our strong test coverage to allow continuous delivery with multiple deploys per day.

Education and Experience:

• BA/BS degree and 12+ years of related experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background

• Must have experience in Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, and relational databases

• A real estate background with transferable skills would be an asset

• Demonstrated  Project Coordination/Management skills

Must-Have: Ability to truly encompass our Company Core Values

• Work Hard. Be Kind

• “We” are bigger than “me”

• Tech x Humanity

Physical Requirements: 

• Sit for long periods of time

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