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Our mission is to redefine the home experience with tech and services to create a smarter, greener, safer home that saves our customers money every month. 

 Summary: 

In this role, you’ll be managing a distributed team of frontend, backend, and QA engineers in the Revenue Technology development group. This group is responsible for providing a sales rep facing application that is used by our Direct to Home sales team. This sales team knocks over 10 million doors per year and the application they use to sell is critical to their success. You’ll play a critical role in leading your team to deliver a simplified customer onboarding experience that provide high value to the company.  

 Primary Responsibilities: 

• Coach, empower, and challenge a team of engineers and QA to grow their skills and impact as technical experts 
• Leverage your technical experience to ensure that your team is making sound decisions, focused on a quality experience for the customer 
• Hire and retain top talent 
• Be a trusted resource for technical feasibility questions from Product management and UX 
• Collaborate with your peer engineering managers to function as one team, delivering cohesive solutions 
• Build and maintain strong relationships across Vivint Engineering and lead collaboration 
• Partner with System Architects to deliver products and services that seamlessly fit into a greater Vivint software ecosystem  

Required Skills:  

• A self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performing teams, ideally with remote or hybrid teams 
• Foster industry best practices and technology decision making from the members of your team 
• Proactively give and receive feedback with a growth mindset 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; adept at active listening 
• A sense of ownership that motivates you to lead your team to deliver real value despite any external or internal roadblocks 

Required Education/Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (Computer Science preferred) 
• 5+ years developing software 
• 2+ years leading a software engineering team 

Preferred Experience: 

• 8+ years developing software 
• 4+ years leading a software engineering team 
• Microsoft Azure 
• Microservices and Kubernetes 
• Vue.js 
• .Net Core (C#) 
• Integrating with third-party services 

Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it’s a great place to grow your career! 

Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about: 

• Free daily lunch and drinks on site 
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away 
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts  
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables 
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline 
• 401(k) + Employer Match 
• Employee Resource Groups 

 WORKING CONDITIONS:  

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. 

SAFETY: 

Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues. 

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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