Manager, People Tech Application Engineer

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world and Specs Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human in addition to Bitmoji Saturn and other digital services.

The People Team drives Snaps values of being kind smart and creative across our global workforce. We help teams hire thoughtful and passionate innovators do their best work grow their careers and build healthy productive workspaces in a safe and cohesive community.

Were looking for a Manager and Technical hands engineer for our newly formed application development team in India. The People tech team is building the next generation AI powered HR software suite for Snap and looking to accelerate the deployment of these transformative full-stack software solutions. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can translate product management ideas stakeholder needs and People Team priorities into clear product designs technical specifications prototypes executable engineering plans and consumer-grade solutions.

This person will lead an engineering team while also coding architecting and building. They will also be responsible for reviewing PRs and test plans writing technical design documents building solutions and setting engineering standards.

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems.

• Experience with database design and data modeling.

• Experience with event-driven architectures including message queues pub/sub systems and asynchronous processing patterns.

• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs webhooks middleware and integrations across multiple systems.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines containerization and deploying services to cloud environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript SQL and API integration patterns.

• Experience with Workday integrations automations and People data workflows.

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira Confluence Slack and other cloud-based services.

• Ability to translate ambiguous product or stakeholder requirements into product designs technical specs prototypes and delivery plans.

• Ability to lead technical design for complex or cross-system initiatives.

• Ability to contribute directly to production code while also managing team delivery.

• Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions.

• Ability to work independently without mature existing infrastructure or support.

• Proven track record of building applications from scratch.

• Ability to evaluate and apply AI/LLM capabilities responsibly in internal tools workflow automation and employee-facing experiences.

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems.

• Experience with database design and data modeling.

• Experience with event-driven architectures including message queues pub/sub systems and asynchronous processing patterns.

• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs webhooks middleware and integrations across multiple systems.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines containerization and deploying services to cloud environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript SQL and API integration patterns.

• Experience with Workday integrations automations and People data workflows.

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira Confluence Slack and other cloud-based services.

• Ability to translate ambiguous product or stakeholder requirements into product designs technical specs prototypes and delivery plans.

• Ability to lead technical design for complex or cross-system initiatives.

• Ability to contribute directly to production code while also managing team delivery.

• Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions.

• Ability to work independently without mature existing infrastructure or support.

• Proven track record of building applications from scratch.

• Ability to evaluate and apply AI/LLM capabilities responsibly in internal tools workflow automation and employee-facing experiences.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent years of experience.

• 6 years of experience in software engineering application development backend services enterprise integrations or related technical roles.

• 2 years of experience leading engineers mentoring technical contributors or operating as a hands-on technical lead or engineering manager.

• Experience with TypeScript SQL APIs and cloud-based application development.

• Experience reviewing production code technical designs and test plans.

• Experience translating product requirements or ambiguous stakeholder needs into technical specifications and implementation plans.
  

• 8 years of experience in software engineering application development backend services enterprise integrations or related technical roles.

• 3 years of experience managing leading or mentoring engineers in a hands-on technical leadership role.

• Experience building People Tech HR Technology Workday internal tools workflow automation or enterprise platform solutions.

• Experience with Spanner and GCP

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