Engineering Manager, Email

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Toronto, ON · Engineering

Engineering Manager for the Email team at Braze, responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that delivers billions of personalized emails monthly. The role involves leading a team, recruiting, coaching, architectural decisions, and potentially writing code. Focus is on scaling the email channel and its associated reporting data.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead our Email team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that delivers billions of personalized emails a month to our customers’ end users as well as processing all associated reporting data.
  2. work closely with product, design, and the team’s engineers to build new features in response to customer feedback and scale the channel as message volume grows.
  3. recruit, coach, and develop the team’s engineers.
  4. help solve major engineering challenges, by guiding key architectural decisions and (in certain high-leverage cases) via the code you write.
  5. have broad responsibility for the team’s vision, goals, and processes.

Skills

Required

  • software engineering experience
  • leading high performing teams
  • autonomy and responsibility
  • technical details to inform decisions
  • communicate effectively
  • make hard decisions and tradeoffs
  • building foundational systems at scale
  • spearheading software projects

Nice to have

  • Email infrastructure
  • personalization
  • reporting data
  • REST APIs
  • user subscriptions
  • customer preference management
  • dashboard configuration

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of success, with 2+ years leading high performing teams
  • Experience building foundational systems at scale and spearheading software projects that significantly advanced the goals of your organization