Engineering Manager

At a Glance

The Engineering Manager will lead the technical and product roadmap execution, driving the development of innovative solutions aligned with business objectives. This role will be pivotal in setting the technical direction, ensuring the highest standards of quality, performance, and scalability. The manager will also play a key role in fostering a collaborative culture, ensuring seamless coordination between technical and non-technical teams. This role requires individual contribution in addition to leadership and reports to the founder.

Where You'll Be

This role is fully remote and open for US based applicants only. You may work from your home office or a shared office space.

What You Will Do

• Manage engineers and developers to help them increase their impact over time, providing mentorship, guidance, and continuous feedback.
• Drive engineering processes and initiatives across the team to maintain high standards and increase development velocity.
• Foster a positive engineering culture of collaboration, continuous feedback and improvement, and high responsibility and accountability.
• Collaborate with leads across the company (product, design, data, and operations) to ensure we're executing well on projects.
• Keep the level of execution high, with best practices around testing, code quality, security, and automation.
• Partner with the founder in guiding our technical direction and effectively translating that into execution across the engineering team.
• Manage recruiting and hiring processes for engineering as the team grows.
• Communicate with customers and sales leads to gather product requirements and translate them into executable tasks.
• Contribute to the product by designing solutions, writing, testing, and debugging code.

What We Are Looking For

• A minimum of 6 years of experience successfully managing and mentoring software engineers and web developers.
• Experience in leading teams that deliver high quality, scalable, reliable, and secure products.
• Strong communicator and collaborator who can partner across different functions.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and flexible to change as the company grows.
• Knowledge of the technical stack: FreeBSD, PHP, C, Zig, JavaScript, and TCP/IP network services.
• Experience working in the Internet email ecosystem or tech-driven startups is a plus.

Compensation

Compensation depends on location and experience. Average yearly salary for this position is between $55,000 and $70,000. This is a full-time remote-only position with no travel requirements.