# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Ashby](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ashby)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** CA$190k – CA$280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Software Engineering, People Management, Team Building, Hiring, Technical Leadership, Product Specifications, Technical Specifications, Coding, Debugging, Developer Experience, Site Reliability Engineering, Design Engineering, Quality Assurance, Code Review, Interview Design
**Posted:** 2025-11-13

> Leads and grows a high-autonomy engineering organization while remaining hands-on with code and technical coaching. The role manages and hires engineers, develops engineering talent, and drives initiatives to scale the company’s distinctive minimal-process culture.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Manage 3–5 Engineers across multiple teams and specializations, including Product Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and Design Engineering.
- Hire 3–5 additional Engineers while helping scale the Engineering organization.
- Provide feedback on product and technical specifications, coaching Engineers on scope, quality, and decision-making.
- Develop Engineers so they can independently deliver large, loosely defined projects.
- Contribute hands-on to systems and code by debugging customer issues, shipping small bug fixes, and improving developer experience while staying off the critical path.
- Propose and lead department-wide and company-wide initiatives.
- Improve pull request review practices through goal alignment, review sampling, analysis, and process proposals.
- Design and improve interviews using candidate and team feedback.
- Improve data generation and simulation for demo accounts to support Engineering, QA, and Sales.
- Help scale the company’s engineering methods and culture as the team grows.

## Requirements
- Formerly a strong software engineer who continues to enjoy coding and stays current with technology.
- Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Ability to coach engineers toward ownership, autonomy, and independent execution.
- Ability to influence product and technical decisions without making final decisions for individual contributors.
- Ambition, courage, and follow-through to improve team and company practices.
- Comfort leading experienced Engineers, including Staff and Principal Engineers.
- Alignment with a minimal-process, high-ownership engineering culture.
- Ability to collaborate through deliberate communication and natural collaboration.

## Engineering Culture
- Minimal process and ownership over decisions typically made by Product and Design.
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
- Investment in tools and abstractions that provide leverage.
- Commitment to building a diverse team.
- Engineers own projects end-to-end, including problem research, product specifications, wireframes, and implementation.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $190,000–$280,000.

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