Stack Exchange

Engineering Manager

Stack Exchange

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Directly managing 2 engineering teams consisting of between 3 to 6 engineers on each team
  • Run all of our general team exercises, such as goal setting, check-ins, reports, trainings, etc. for all members of your teams
  • Have weekly 1:1’s with all direct reports
  • Work with other Agile team members such as Product Managers, Agile Leaders, Tech Leads, and others, to ensure that team level goals are being met.
  • Work with Directors to ensure that teams are executing projects and functions necessary to meet organizational strategic needs
  • Organize and run any meetings necessary for their teams to accomplish their goals
  • Provide career guidance and help engineers manage their career progression at Stack Overflow
  • Mediate and resolve conflicts

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience directly managing engineers in a modern engineering environment
  • 2+ years of software engineering experience with knowledge of MVC architectures, modern web development practices and general common architecture practices.
  • Demonstrated practical experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Positive experience with Agile development methodologies and practices with demonstrated experience of at least one methodology (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.).
  • Demonstrated experience with personnel management practices and techniques, including, but not limited to
  • Goal setting
  • Positive and negative feedback
  • Effective 1:1’s
  • Career guidance
  • Communication
  • Conflict resolution
  • Basic project management skills
  • A strong desire to help their reports reach their full potential and progress in their careers
  • Experience managing remote-first or distributed teams of engineers
  • A track record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion on their teams and product
  • Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology.
Benefits
  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Generous paid vacation
  • Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
  • Equity for all employees at all levels
  • Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
  • Company-paid Life Insurance
  • Home Internet stipend
  • Professional allocation for your growth and development
  • One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
  • Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
software engineeringMVC architecturemodern web developmentcloud-based infrastructureAgile methodologiesScrumKanbanXPproject managementpersonnel management
Soft skills
goal settingfeedback1:1 communicationcareer guidanceconflict resolutionproblem solvingteam managementdiversity promotionequity promotioninclusion promotion