Careers

Larky is looking for an experienced development team manager who will guide our highly-skilled software engineers to deliver business value each and every week.

This is a critical role for our SaaS company and offers an exceptional opportunity for this new hire to participate in strategic planning, then drive execution to deliver results.

While management of the team is paramount, this is a player-coach position, enabling the person in this role to stay engaged in day-to-day development, while providing oversight and mentorship to other team members.

Larky is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is interested in working with the best people, independent of location. If you are able to work between 8-5 Eastern, you can work from anywhere.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior management to plan strategic initiatives

• Work with head of Product to decompose initiatives and product roadmap increments into sprint themes

• Work with senior engineers to refine and develop system architecture design objectives, and roadmap for execution

• Properly align development resources and ensure a shared vision to guide engineering team to successful sprint completion and on-time product releases

• Define success metrics and criteria, and provide sprint and release status and reports to ensure all work meets success parameters and targets

• Review development processes, procedures, methodologies and standards and work with senior management to ensure process is repeatable and efficient

• Track, manage and prioritize technical debt

• Maintain and update system documentation as changes are made to ensure consistent professional results that can be utilized by other team members

• Participate in recruiting new team members to meet the evolving needs of the company

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage a team in an Agile development environment and provide guidance to development personnel

• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines, and balance multiple initiatives with varying degrees of workload

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to set direction, resolve conflict, and make decisions with sometimes limited information available

• Strong interpersonal skills along with verbal and written communication skills required to build relationships and interface with internal stakeholders and external clients with clarity and precision

• Ability to successfully manage, mobilize and motivate team of engineers based on different geographical locations, both domestically and off/near-shore

• Strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and critical thinking skills with the ability to remove barriers to progress

• Strong experience with Python development

• Experience with test-driven development to ensure efficient code and rapid releases

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline management and DevOps practices is a plus

• Experience with AWS Cloud and developing for and running in containerized environments

Technology We Use

Development

• • Python/Flask
  • Python/Celery
  • Node (JS and TS)
  • React (JS and TS)
  • GraphQL

Mobile

• • Android: Java and Kotlin
  • iOS: Swift and Objective-C
  • Firebase / Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • APNs

DevOps/Infrastructure

• • AWS: EC2, RDS, Route53, ALB, Fargate, SQS, Lambda, IAM, Elasticache
  • Docker
  • Concourse
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • VPN/Wireguard
  • Networking/DNS/TLS/Apache/Cron/Nginx

About You

The ideal candidate is:

• Passionate - Larky may be an elder statesperson in startup years, but we're still as hungry as we were on day one, and we want you to be just as engaged.
• Self-directed - we're trying to accomplish a lot - like a lot lot - and sometimes that means knuckling down and figuring things out in the absence of a well-defined path.
• Curious - you want to know how things work - and why - and you're not afraid to share how they might work better.
• Experienced - you know your way around Java/Kotlin, interfacing with backend APIs, and dealing with Play Store guidelines and requirements.
• Strong Communicator - you have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Larky provides a suite of progressive employee benefits including stock options, 401K, dental and medical insurance, long and short term disability insurance, and more. We are a high accountability/goal-driven company that provides unlimited paid time off.

Growth Path

As Larky matures and grows it will need additional leadership. Larky strives to grow its leaders from within rather than hiring from outside. So, those who succeed in this role will be strong candidates for elevated levels of responsibility.

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Larky is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is interested in working with the best people, independent of location. If you are able to work between 8-5 Eastern, you can work from anywhere.

About You

The ideal candidate is:

• Passionate - Larky may be an elder statesperson in startup years, but we're still as hungry as we were on day one, and we want you to be just as engaged.
• Self-directed - we're trying to accomplish a lot - like a lot lot - and sometimes that means knuckling down and figuring things out in the absence of a well-defined path.
• Curious - you want to know how things work - and why - and you're not afraid to share how they might work better.
• Experienced - you know your way around Swift/Objective-C, interfacing with backend APIs, and dealing with App Store guidelines and requirements.
• Strong Communicator - you have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Larky provides a suite of progressive employee benefits including stock options, 401K, dental and medical insurance, long and short term disability insurance and more. We are a high accountability/goal-driven company that provides unlimited paid time off.

Growth Path

As Larky matures and grows it will need additional leadership. Larky strives to grow its leaders from within rather than hiring from outside. So, those who succeed in this role will be strong candidates for elevated levels of responsibility.