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Our client is looking for an Engineering Manager who will lead a squad of engineers to help deliver value to our customer and help achieve our mission to democratize automation. This company has helped millions of people build businesses and be more efficient through automating a lot of mundane work by helping them connect to an ecosystem of over 5000 apps.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with your engineering function and peer design function and product function to create a trio that tackles user problems and solutions.
- Develop effective ways to communicate, monitor, and lead your team through weekly one-on-one’s and team meetings.
- Keep the leadership team informed on your team’s progress in ways that are easy and enjoyable to receive, like one-on-one's, update posts, and regular team hangouts.
- Build rapport with each member of the Engineering Team and support them through coaching and mentorship to help level up their skills.
- Participate in code reviews, learning and spreading technical knowledge throughout the company — moving knowledge to documentation where appropriate.
- Help the team build tools for partners and developers that come to our platform to create Apps that live on the company. Imagine Postman meets OpenAPI on steroids.
- Occasionally dive into the code; fixing bugs, improving developer experience, smoothing edges — sometimes even spiking out small proofs of concept.
- Collaborate across various disciplines (Product Managers, Designers, Researchers) to help set technical roadmaps that will achieve business goals through engineering best practices.
- Actively recruit, onboard, and train new engineers at the company. This might involve tweaking the skills portions of interviews, or writing better documentation.
- As part of our All Hands Support initiative, help customers have the best experience with the company as possible.
Qualifications
- You are an effective team builder. This isn't your first rodeo. You have at least two years of experience managing teams of Full Stack and Frontend Engineers. You know how to hire, train, and develop engineers from all backgrounds. You understand the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive engineering team. You may not have hired or managed hundreds of people before, but you have hired, trained, and managed at least a few engineers before.
- You’re a product thinker. As an Engineering Manager, you’ve worked to set goals, metrics, and a strategy for a product-focused Engineering team. You push your team to prioritize impactful work to meet the company’s goals.
- You can keep track of, prioritize, and lead multiple projects. We're a small team, and there's no shortage of things you could be doing in a day. You'll carve out time for functional projects and make sure they solve real problems the team faces — ideally making development even easier.
- You have excellent communication skills. You regularly work with engineers and other stakeholders from various disciplines, balancing engineering concerns, such as technical debt, with product concerns. Ideally, you find solutions that address both the team and user needs but if not, help build understanding around difficult decisions.
- You are a skilled engineering leader. You've got a strong background in leading a team of Engineers working in our stack (Python, Django or React, ES6 or Node.js, etc.). Even if you aren't a daily coder, you regularly exercise your coding muscles and try to be an asset on any technical context your team may need.
- You're adaptable. You've been in fast growing companies and know how to build, change, and adapt to the needs of a company as it grows.
Location
- Remote – Americas