Engineering Manager

They're looking for an experienced people manager who has hands-on experience tackling technical challenges in software engineering.

You'll lead a full stack team of developers responsible for building out a platform for developers to create extensions and integrations with ConvertKit, in addition to supporting and growing their automations features, and driving performance improvements across the entire application.

They're looking for someone who shares their passion for building a small, efficient, and bootstrapped team that's always dedicated to serving the creator community. If you're excited about contributing to this vision and building upon it, they'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging.
• Be an unblocker for members of the teams you manage.
• Level up your team through feedback, educational opportunities, personal growth, mentorship, performance management, and promoting psychological safety,
• Drive the execution of work, and hold the team accountable to scoped commitments.
• Place your squads work in the context of business goals, and track and measure your teams progress while helping to define learning objectives for each of your reports.
• Play a crucial role in owning and defining good processes not only within your team, but also across engineering and with cross-functional partners.
• Represent technical considerations and engineering interests with fellow managers and with the executive team

Requirements

• At least 3-5 years of experience in a technical leadership role, and at least 3 years of prior experience writing production code at scale in Ruby on Rails.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This role is primarily about communicating with others and facilitating amazing work getting done.
• Prior experience working in or managing distributed, remote teams.
• Be committed to building a diverse engineering team that serves as a role model for the software industry.
• Have the ability to foster both high performance and a high degree of psychological safety on the team. This requires strong empathy, communication, and listening skills to understand and advocate for the needs of the team.
• Be comfortable delivering constructive feedback to drive individual growth and fostering productive conflict to seek out the best and most diverse ideas to reach the best solutions for customers.
• Be autonomous and self-motivated to work effectively in a 100% remote company.
• Live and work primarily in US time zones.
• Attend their bi-annual company retreats
• Nice To Have
• Experience using data to understand product usage and make decisions.
• Experience building platforms for developers
• Expertise in scaling MySQL and Elastic search