Engineering Manager

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Continuously improve the rate at which your teams ship meaningful changes to production
• - Reduce cycle time, handoffs, and avoidable waiting
• - Help engineers break large, slow work into smaller, faster feedback loops
• - Chatting regularly 1:1 with engineers, listening to their concerns, making sure they’re feeling engaged and able to make progress, and providing specific feedback on performance – both the good and the not-so-good
• - Mentoring product engineers to help them grow and become the best engineers they’re capable of becoming
• - Use qualitative and quantitative signals (e.g. cycle time, work-in-progress, deployment frequency, incident trends) to understand where teams are stuck and where to intervene
• - Coordinating internal documentation and guides to make sure that our bus factor is healthy, and new team members can be onboarded easily
• - Working with support and product leadership to determine our appetite for addressing our prioritized bugs and issues
• - Participating in the planning process by soliciting context for your teams and surfacing relevant information to the rest of the company
• - Surfacing coordination/collaboration challenges with other teams and working with peers and leadership to continuously improve how we work as a company
• - Participating in our incident response process as a coordinator of major product issues, following up on actions and ensuring they’re seen through to resolution
• - Alongside our leadership team, hire and onboard new programmers: filtering resumes, conducting interviews, evolving our hiring process

Required Skills

• - Experienced people leader with a learning mindset
• - Strong software engineering background
• - Familiarity with Node.js, MySQL8, Ember.js, and React is an advantage
• - Highly self-motivated and great at written communication
• - Ability to apply pressure when delivery slows down
• - Comfort with driving change and improving processes

Benefits

• - Competitive salary based on role, skill, experience and location
• - Work from anywhere
• - A brand new Macbook + an office workspace setup budget
• - Co-working space support
• - Budget for personal development (conferences, courses, books)
• - Worldwide team trips
• - 4-day work weeks
• - Generous paid vacation
• - Paid parental leave
• - Annual performance and pay review