Engineering Manager

Summary

Join GlossGenius, a company empowering entrepreneurs, as an Engineering Manager. Lead and develop a team of engineers, shaping engineering efforts for core product areas like booking, scheduling, and payments. Define technical priorities, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role is pivotal in ensuring the platform's robustness, scalability, and innovation. You will report to the Director of Engineering and can be based remotely in the Greater Toronto Area. GlossGenius offers a range of benefits including flexible PTO, competitive health and dental insurance, generous parental leave, a retirement savings plan, and professional development stipends.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years as a people manager
• Proven ability to lead teams through technical leads or people managers
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with product/program managers, designers, and peers to develop plans, manage expectations, and deliver new products and features (0 to 1)
• Strong business acumen and customer-centric approach, supported by data analytics skills
• Solid technical understanding, capable of guiding technical discussions despite this being a non-coding role
• Experience in recruiting and building high-performing teams for future GlossGenius products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of senior and staff engineers, understanding their skills and fostering their professional growth to achieve daily tasks and long-term career goals
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to define the long-term technical and product strategy and the necessary steps for its realization
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure team and cross-functional alignment to execute key initiatives and achieve business results
• Establish and implement effective engineering processes focused on quality and progress in key product initiatives
• Collaborate with recruiting to build and retain a high-performing engineering team by attracting top talent

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year