Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering
Optimal Ways
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Lead and participate in technical design discussions, actively remove blockers, and continuously drive technical direction and best practices
- Iterate on our agile-inspired process, helping us build better software as a cohesive team
- Collaborate with our analytics, product, and design leadership as we define the scope of projects and plan deliverables
- Mentor engineers on your team, lead projects your team is tasked with, and influence our technical direction
- Facilitate 1-1s with engineers on your team, unblocking and providing regular feedback on goal progression, praise, areas for improvement, and career progression
- Identify areas for your team to learn and expand via project work, external learning, or additional mentorship
Requirements
- Educated: BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent industry experience
- Experienced: You have led Engineering teams and possess in-depth, full-stack knowledge of the applications you've built from the ground up, with a minimum of 5 years of high-level technical leadership experience.
- Customer and Product Focused: You possess a deep, customer-first mindset, understanding of B2B SaaS user personas, and strategic product development addressing user needs.
- Engineer: You possess expertise in designing and developing microservices and large-scale distributed systems. Your technical skills include proficiency in Python, Docker, Kafka, and leveraging AWS services and architecture.
- Excellence Obsessed: As a mentor and technical advisor, you inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement. You’re passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices.
- People Leader: You have hired and mentored developers and led technical conversations, fostering an environment of empowered decision-making, knowledge sharing, and process improvements.
- Agile: You’ve managed a team in Agile best practices.
- Communicator: You are adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong.
- Responsible: You thrive in environments with minimal guidance and a plethora of context. You enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production.
- Flexible: You know how to balance ownership and autonomy with collaboration in a remote environment. You know how to prioritize focusing your time and effort where most needed with flexibility, dedication, and curiosity.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including Series C level equity
- Health / Dental / Vision 100% covered for employee and 50% for dependents
- Life Insurance, with optional supplemental insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- 401(k) with match
- Unlimited PTO (vacation, personal days, sick days, jury duty, military leave, bereavement)
- 11 Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave for all employees
- Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurances, and AD&D Insurance
- Fitness membership reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonDockerKafkamicroservicesdistributed systemsautomated testingcode qualityfull-stack developmenttechnical leadershipAgile methodologies
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationcustomer focusstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingflexibilityownershipcontinuous improvementteam leadership
Certifications
BS in Computer Sciencerelated degree