Engineering Manager

Summary

Join ezCater, a leading food technology company, as a Engineering Manager to build, lead, and mentor high-performing software engineering teams. You will translate business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring product robustness and adherence to engineering standards. Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to influence systems and roadmaps. Determine the ideal development lifecycle and technical design for new and existing solutions, while instilling best software development practices. Contribute technically by brainstorming with engineers, designing solutions, and reviewing PRs. This role offers a compelling opportunity with radical transparency, collaborative colleagues, sane working hours, and flexibility around work/life balance.

Requirements

• Ability to grow highly specialized engineers and/or full stack and assess how that affects team dynamics
• A passion for building and growing high-performing teams, prior management experience, and a desire to be an impactful leader
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring the performance metrics for our applications and systems
• Extensive full-stack web development experience. Working knowledge of modern server-side and client-side frameworks
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Flexible growth mindset, you’re willing to do what it takes to adapt your team and power them for success
• Goal orientation and a record of success leading leaders and engineers
• A desire to collaborate with strong engineers and engineering leaders to continually improve a mature engineering team. A sharp mind, a soft heart, and a large funny bone

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor exceptional teams of software engineers, leading conversations, and cultivating execution and decision-making; all while delighting our customers and propelling our team of engineers to execute on projects
• Drive the execution of our vision by translating business requirements into technical solutions. Ensuring our products are robust and adhere to the engineering standards while meeting our goals
• Leverage your technical expertise and communication skills to collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams in the organization to influence our systems and roadmaps
• Operate with scale and speed determining the ideal development lifecycle, technical design, and approach for new and existing solutions
• Instill best practices for software development while delivering high-quality work by fostering pragmatism and urgency
• Contribute technically: Brainstorm with engineers, design solutions, and review PRs
• Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with ordering systems would be a plus, ideally from an eCommerce and/or SAAS context
• Ruby, Rails, and React would be a huge plus
• Postgres? Even better

Benefits

• Market salary
• Stock options
• The usual holidays
• All-you-can-eat vacation
• 401K with ezCater match
• Health/dental/FSA
• Long-term disability insurance
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!)
• A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
• Wicked awesome co-workers
• Cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices