About the Team
We are seeking an enthusiastic Manager for Application Development team for our TV platforms, specializing in native application development to help develop and maintain Vizio's core operating structure. The Manager will be responsible for taking visions and directing, communicating, tracking, and mentoring the Engineering consultants to successfully implement those visions. This Position will report to our Director will have multiple Engineering leaders as direct reports. We are a close-knit team, focusing on challenging problems that make a difference in our business. We concentrate on high-impact, high-value development, and in this role, you'll be delivering the software that helps us grow. We pride ourselves on working in a collaborative environment, and to do so we are in our Dallas, TX office 5 days a week.
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What You Will Do
• Be involved with every stage of the application software development process
• Design APIs/SDKs used by other teams, both internal and external to the company.
• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer.
• Lead, create, coach, and mentor a software engineering team, through product discovery that helps identify and break our product goals into technical projects.
• Empower the engineers in your teams to succeed by identifying how to measure success, and mentor them on how to achieve those goals.
• Make critical decisions that contribute to the success of the product.
• Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
• Participate in architecture discussions and planning.
• Participate in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams.
• Empower the delivery team to self-organize.
• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members' success.
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
• Maintain high morale and motivate the delivery team to go above and beyond.
• Vocally advocate for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions.
• Maintain and foster our culture by interviewing and hiring the most qualified individuals.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp.
About You
• Passionate towards building next generation TV watching experience to the customers.
• You are excited to have an impact on a platform that is used by millions.
• You respect the institutional knowledge stored in legacy code but aren't afraid to replace it when needed.
• You know when to use an existing solution and when to build something new.
• You are able to gather and define your own requirements.
• You have patience when working with people of all skill levels.
• You build up those around you.
• You pay attention to the edge cases, evaluating how a design might break.
• You are proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens.
• Experience with systems programming in C, C++ is must and UI development in HTML, XML, JS is required.
• Experience working with modern build systems.
• Attention to details, provide focused project management, accurate and detailed system analyses.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
About VIZIO
We are Beautifully Simple.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.
VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.