Engineering Manager
Leads engineering team in high-growth startup building authorization infrastructure, recruiting top engineers, setting ambitious goals, and collaborating with execs to drive product vision and company success. Requires startup experience leading teams building complex systems.
About the job
What you'll do
- Take the foundation that we have, and work with our cofounder/CTO to build out the vision. This includes not just how things work under the hood. Getting developer experience right, for instance, is a key ingredient to winning the market, and you will help us get this right too.
- Recruit the absolute best engineers – engineers who want to lean into product and talk to users, who can build a highly technical and complex solution, and who are ready to do whatever it takes. We're still early enough that you will help shape the culture.
- Lead the engineering team by setting ambitious goals and inspiring the team to deliver. Get your hands dirty and jump in on whatever else it takes to build the company.
- Work with the founder/CEO and other execs (e.g. marketing, sales) to make Oso wildly successful.
Requirements
- You have thrived working in a startup
- Experience leading and growing an engineering team in a high-growth company
- Experience as a programmer and/or engineering leader building complex systems at varying levels of the stack
Benefits
In addition to cash compensation, Oso offers a Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more:
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Mental healthcare to all employees and anyone in their family through Spring Health
- Unlimited access to financial advisors through Northstar
- Equity Package
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work options
- One Medical Membership
- Quarterly hackathons... and prizes!
- Free team lunches every month
The starting salary for this role is between $195,000-$240,000/year plus equity.
Skills
Authorization Systems, Complex Systems, Developer Experience, Recruiting, Startup Engineering, Systems Programming, Full-Stack Development
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