Engineering Manager

The CCS team (Clients & Client Services) at Audacy powers all frontend experiences for our listeners. Keyword “experiences”. Everything we do in our group relates to our mission to deliver a world-class audio experience, which includes music, podcasts, sports, news, and so much more!

Our team is growing and looking for the right leaders to join us. We work together everyday to do things that matter, leave things better than when we started, and always keep our listener’s experience in mind. You will have the opportunity to use your technical and leadership experience to manage mobile, web, smart speaker, and connected device apps along with the next generation of these experiences. Our remote team has an inclusive culture with a commitment to work life balance.

We are developers and we understand what developers need. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to new ideas, learn new technologies, and architect new features. Friendly code reviews make us all better and you get to be a part of that by both reviewing code and having yours reviewed. We have fun doing what we do, and you will too!

Responsibilities: 

• Servant leader who puts the team first to unblock, train, motivate, and create a positive team culture.
• Management of our React Native Audacy and Creator mobile applications.
• Grow your technical and people mentorship by leading a team of 5+ mobile engineers.
• Identify areas of improvement and look to always better our team.
• Ability to break technical concepts down and share with non-technical stakeholders.

• Assess daily and weekly team objectives and monitor output.
• Identify team bottlenecks in any area and work with the respective stakeholders to solve them.
• Partner with all teams and create clear lines of communication.
• Lead architecture and development decisions for our features.
• Participate in tech spikes and feasibility studies to help flesh out new ideas and unknowns.

• Acquire new skills, broaden existing skills, and contribute to others through knowledge sharing and retrospectives – we are better together!

Qualifications: 

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including data structures, OOP, time complexity analysis, and code refactoring/reusability.
• Previous experience as a software engineer.
• 2+ years experience as a tech lead mentoring other team members or as an engineering manager.
• 2+ years experience in agile software project management.
• Understanding of the entire software development life cycle.
• Experience with modern front-end technologies: React, React Native, Typescript, and Javascript.
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Git source control.

Nice to haves:

• Prior experience in unit testing and/or test-driven development.
• Familiarity with native iOS and Android development.
• Experience with various store submission processes.
• Experience with app code signing.
• Experience with audio streaming standards such as HLS.
• Understanding of in-app advertising & analytics.

Pay Transparency: 

The anticipated starting salary range for Denver, Philadelphia, or Vancouver, WA or remote based individuals expressing interest in this position is $150,000-$165,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive enefits package to include:  health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp) and Twitter (@AudacyCorp).

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.