Position SummaryWe are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to grow and lead a team of backend and frontend engineers, as well as drive the diverse software projects needed to drive GoodLeap's mission around affecting investments in the climate-impacting home improvements space.You will own efforts to develop, deploy, and maintain production-quality cloud native applications utilizing public cloud technology and solutions using technologies like AWS, Azure, etc. This is a dynamic environment with high leadership visibility that requires managing a team with diverse skill sets located remotely across the EU, Central, and North America.(Some of) What you will do here:
- Lead a growing team of 5-10 highly motivated and talented software engineers
- Drive a goal-based software development process, balancing the product roadmap against technical infrastructure and security improvements
- Coordinate and collaborate with other groups including (but not limited to) product management, quality, ADLs, UX, data science, business development, and operations
- Help to assess, create, and execute on hiring plans
- Cultivate an environment of collaboration, transparency and passion for technical excellence
- Develop, train, and mentor software engineering staff
- Help the team make decisions, keep moving forward, and propose changes and improvements to promote scalable, reliable, and maintainable technologies
You are an ideal candidate for our team if you value:
- Collaboration and consensus-building as patterns for problem-solving
- Transparency in the face of ambiguous or difficult situations
- Getting stuff done through simple, pragmatic iteration and an unwavering focus on product needs
- Demonstrating a high level of curiosity and keeping abreast of the latest technologies
- Taking a proactive nature to resolve problems
- Challenging the status quo, when it makes sense to do so
To be successful, you should have:
- 5-7+ years of developing and shipping production software
- 6+ months of leading engineering teams including building product roadmaps, running agile processes, performance management, conflict resolution, and career development
- A genuine passion for management, and a desire to build the best management practice possible
- Experience building cohesive teams; including interviewing and closing exceptional engineers
- Strong communication and analytical skills
- A commitment to fostering inclusion and diversity within your team and the larger organization
- You remember enough about writing code that you can conduct a solid code review
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Comfort with cloud/frontend development
- Experience managing engineers that develop in nodejs, .NET, Typescript, React and other similar technologies
- Experience with development tools and technologies such as AWS, Azure, REST, JSON, GraphQL, NoSQL
$164,000 - $204,000 a yearIn addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.