Engineering Manager, Americas
Leads a team of 3-5 engineers across specializations, hires more, coaches on high-ownership projects, stays hands-on with coding/debugging, and drives department-wide initiatives to scale unique engineering culture.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Manage 3-5 engineers across multiple teams and specializations (Product Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Design Engineers), hiring 3-5 more.
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs, coach ICs on scope and quality decisions.
- Grow engineers to handle large, loosely defined projects independently.
- Code/debug customer issues, ship bug fixes, improve developer experience while staying hands-on.
- Propose and lead initiatives like rethinking PR reviews, improving interviews, generating demo data.
Requirements
- Former engineer who built impressive products and now builds great engineering teams.
- Enjoy coding and staying up-to-date on technology.
- Ambition to challenge norms and improve processes.
- Could have been (or was) a Principal Engineer.
- Believe in high ownership/autonomy for engineers, minimal process.
- Optimistic about scaling unique engineering culture.
Culture & Process
- Minimal process with full ownership: engineers write specs, make decisions, end-to-end delivery.
- Natural collaboration, investment in tools/abstractions, diverse team.
- Scale from 50 to 100+ engineers maintaining speed and quality.
Skills
Product Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Debugging, Code Review, Interview Design, Data Simulation, Developer Tools, Technical Leadership, Engineering Processes, Hands-On Coding
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