The Role:
Digital Zone is looking for an Engineering Manager (a manager of people). Engineering Managers treat their team as their product. EM’s are technically credible and know the details of what engineers work on, their time is spent safeguarding their team’s health, hiring a world-class team, and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. They must also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals
This is a great opportunity for a passionate, highly-capable individual with an established track record who looks for a constant stream of challenges, and an engineering environment that empowers growth, and encourages best practices.
Who we’re looking for:
This is the right role for you if
- You are a problem solver by nature. You know how to tackle a new problem and navigate solutions within the real-world constraints.
- You have attention to details, and you strive for perfecting and polishing everything you touch.
- You look at challenges as a source of motivation, with a curiosity driven mindset.
- You have a high bar for knowledge management (documentation), and organizational responsibilities (time-management, reporting, communication).
- You take ownership of your work and its impact.
- You communicate and collaborate proactively.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can take a project from idea/RFC to production.
- You are open-minded, and you look at problems with an engineering-mindset
- You welcome open-dialogue and feedback culture.
- You can collaborate with other management personnel, provide instructions to engineering teams, and ensure the successful completion of projects on time and within budget.
- You can conduct research and development for new designs, products and processes while maintaining technical accuracy and coordinating work with other managers and staff.
Responsibilities:
Manage a team of engineers.
- Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
- Author project plans for epics
- Run agile project management processes
- Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.
- Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features.
- Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent
- Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to do technical interviews
- Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
- Generate and implement process improvements
- Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team
- Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance
- Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
- Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs
- Improve product quality, security, and performance
- Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure our availability & reliability goals are met, by working with Infrastructure engineers and development team members
Qualifications:
8+ Years of experience in Software Engineering or adjacent fields.
- 3+ Years of experience working fully remotely with a track record of self-management and accountability.
- 2+ years of Engineering leadership/management experience
Nice To Have:
- Working knowledge of the backend technologies used by your team such as Nodejs (Typescript) or Go
- Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (React+Next)
- Large scale e-commerce experience
- Product company experience
- Startup experience