Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Fuel50 as an Engineering Manager to lead our Engineering Team in New Zealand, focusing on team growth, technical leadership, and high-quality product delivery.

Requirements

• 3+ years of proven experience in a people leadership role, working as a Team Lead or Engineering Manager
• 6+ years of experience in the software industry, with knowledge of SaaS architecture and proficiency in some of the following technologies: Java, Angular, MySQL, CI/CD, Docker, and Linux
• Demonstrated ability and passion for conducting code reviews, opening pull requests, and enhancing our pipelines and tooling
• Experience in technical roadmap planning and delivery management, ensuring alignment with company goals and clear timelines for execution
• Proven track record of setting and driving OKRs, ensuring that team performance aligns with measurable objectives
• Experience participating in architectural reviews and scoping sessions, with the ability to write clear requirement briefs for new features
• Demonstrated ability to foster psychological safety and continuous feedback among direct reports and peers
• Passion for efficiency, automation, and improving processes. Exhibit an unrelenting bias toward action
• Ability to facilitate the RFP and sales processes by answering technical questions from clients regarding product features, architecture, and security
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to develop and coach a team, and build positive working relationships with direct reports, mentees, and collaborators across the company

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers
• Focus on team growth, technical leadership, and the delivery of high-quality products
• Facilitate feature delivery, understand product goals, and identify measurable outcomes
• Collaborate with platform engineers to ensure that our applications are scalable and reliable
• Gather requirements, brainstorm ideas, and empower your team to deliver features into production
• Tackle complex challenges such as incorporating AI, scaling our application, ensuring high availability, and implementing observability and monitoring

Benefits

• Day off on your birthday, your Fuel50 anniversary and a company wide celebration day
• A 'Refuel Day' once a quarter to relax and refuel
• Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP)
• Remote working and flexible working times - we're very supportive of school commitments, traveling in off-peak hours, looking after family and attending to life's events
• Investing in you with career and development planning, using our very own Fuel50 software and online Fuellie University
• A very progressive parental leave policy - get extra flexibility and time off on top of what your local government already mandates
• Comprehensive fully subsidised Health Insurance with Southern Cross
• Family and friends pizza nights once a month (at our HQ in Takapuna) - bring your best mate, significant other, kids, or yourself for pizza, table tennis, and pool