Engineering Manager- Remote

About You

You have been a top-notch engineer for most of your career and found yourself gravitating towards leading engineering teams. You love working with smart people and the thought of being able to create an amazing engineering organization and see it grow gets you very excited.

You will be responsible for streamlining the engineering processes and establishing high performing teams across different engineering disciplines to continuously improve and enrich company platform. You can’t wait to roll up your sleeves and take full control of all engineering, release and operational aspects for our platform. You will work together with product managers, designers, and engineers towards aligned goals.

You are a highly motivated, experienced, and organized leader who still loves solving difficult engineering problems when needed. Although you know how to lead teams, you understand that the most effective teams consist of driven, autonomous members who can achieve a lot with the right level of support.

Your Skills and Experience

• You have significant experience in either Node.js or Golang and are still writing code to keep your skills sharp.
• You have prior experience building services at scale.
• You are good at helping team members stay focused and get “unstuck”.
• You know how to hire talented people and how to grow/nurture them.
• You are self-motivated, organized, creative, respectful, with a high level of integrity and ethics.
• You have worked in remote first organizations.
• You have a strong command of the English language.

You Pretty Much Have the Job If

• You have previously helped a startup successfully build out their engineering capabilities and establish high-performing teams.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Establish high performing team

• Action: Recruit new team members.
  Outcome: High quality new team members.
• Action: Pair with team members to provide them with support, do code reviews, hunt down bugs, convey best practices.
  Outcome: Increased development velocity and quality.
• Action: Conduct performance reviews and 1on1s.
  Outcome: Improved team happiness, culture and effectiveness.

Improve our platform while assuring quality and scalability

• Action: Work with the product manager to translate requirements into clearly defined technical specs and tickets.
  Outcome: Clear estimates and delivery timelines.
• Action: Advise on high-level architecture decisions for our platform.
  Outcome: Company remains a high quality platform in all aspects.

Streamline engineering process

• Action: Ensure that our platform is well tested and reliable.
  Outcome: Verifiable quality and high level of confidence to release changes.
• Action: Improve and design engineering related processes (dev, release, incidents, production support, etc).
  Outcome: Our team can deliver more value in a repeatable way, production issues are identified and fixed instantly.
• Action: Ensure team members are working on the right tasks.
  Outcome: Ensures that delivery deadlines are met.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Fully Remote Organization, with flexible work hours, we are outcome-focused.
• High impact environment, ability to make a difference. You are not just a number.
• Employee Stock Option Program.
• Mac laptop and external monitor.
• Remote-friendly tool allowance.
• Health insurance.
• Gym allowance, Internet allowance, Educational allowance.