Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ashby is a company focused on revolutionizing talent acquisition software, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow their engineering team. In this role, you will manage a team of engineers, influence project decisions, and drive initiatives that enhance both engineering practices and product development.
Responsibilities
- Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones
- Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention
- Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up-to-date (while staying off the critical path)
- Propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives
- Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal to the team about what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the time and space to give useful feedback
- Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us!
- Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up-to-date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business, from Engineering to QA to Sales
Skills
- Experience as an engineer who built impressive products
- Experience in building teams of great engineers
- Ability to manage three to five engineers and hire three to five more
- Experience providing feedback on product and technical specs
- Ability to grow engineers to take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention
- Experience debugging customer issues and shipping small bug fixes
- Experience proposing and leading department and company-wide initiatives
- Ability to rethink how pull request reviews are conducted
- Experience designing and improving interviews based on candidate and team feedback
- Ability to improve how data is generated and simulated in demo accounts
- Strong coding skills and a passion for technology
- Ability to thrive in a culture that values ownership and autonomy
- Experience leading by example and creating leverage through work
- Optimism about building a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo
- Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with a diverse team
Benefits
- 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.
- Unlimited PTO.
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.
- We also meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company. You also have a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.
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