Engineering Mgr 1

Description
Come lead a dynamic and innovative engineering team that is responsible for building the industrial leading online Calendar site. We are currently building the next generation Calendar with web 2.0 technology and highly scalable high performance platform technology that can be used to integrate with other web services.

Contact us if you are an energetic, creative, and experienced manager with the confidence and passion to lead a team of top-notch software engineers in delivering a super fast, highly scalable and easy to use application and software platform for Yahoo! Calendar. You must have in-depth experience managing the definition, creation and delivery of large scale software systems in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment. You must have at least five years of experience guiding a team of engineers building cutting edge technology products and solutions. You must be well-grounded in technology and must be a keen student of emerging trends in the Internet technology space.

We need a visionary, a coach, a technical problem solver, someone to provide course correction, who owns the plan and the priorities, introduces Just Enough Process when necessary, as necessary. In this job, being successful means continually moving the team into higher and higher planes of flow, making sure that each individual is growing and happy, and ensuring that everyone knows what is going on, on the team and off -- reporting to other stakeholders is a vital component.

Responsibilities:
* Lead the engineering team to build a scalable, high performance, distributed, applications and platforms
* Work with customers, product managers, and business managers to constantly refine the direction and priorities
* Mentor and grow the team
* Drive the planning and execution of the product development and release schedule
* Evaluate and compare alternate technologies and solutions, both internal and external, and use the appropriate ones for the product
* Contribute to the company's product and technology roadmap planning

Qualifications:
* A minimum of BS (MS preferred) in Computer Science or equivalent
* At least 10 years of experience in software engineering with at least
5 years in management, preferably in a UNIX environment
* Proven track record in delivering complex, high performance, high scalability platform systems
* Good knowledge of HTML, PHP, AJAX, DHTML and other Web technologies
* Database knowledge within a high scalability system is a huge plus
* Experience in engineering large scale data handling systems is a major plus
* Excellent communication and presentation skills
* Excellent organizational, interpersonal and teamwork skills
* Strong technical leadership aptitude
* Project management skills