Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

The job is for an Engineering Manager at Metabase, a data insights company that provides an opinionated open source business intelligence tool. The role involves building a culture of continuous improvement, hiring top-level engineering talent, coaching individuals, optimizing processes, and collaborating with other teams to plan and execute projects.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication, with a bias to written communication to support async processes in a fully remote and distributed team
• 2+ years of engineering management experience or equivalent (you can demonstrate skill at key aspects of building and improving an engineering team, and supporting and developing people's careers)
• Ability to debug project execution to identify issues and changes to one or more of people, process, and project scope
• Strong product sensibilities - you can critically navigate product proposal docs and Figma designs and translate them to engineering requirements that span the Metabase product stack, and identify and mitigate risks to building them
• Strong technical background in one of: Clojure or Frontend (React + Typescript) ecosystems

Responsibilities

• Build a culture of continuous improvement to improve the cadence of execution, quality of work, and happiness in the engineering org
• Find, attract, hire, onboard, and nurture top-level engineering IC talent
• Coach individuals, tune processes, remove obstacles, and optimize the environment to continuously increase the speed of iteration
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Customer Success to appropriately plan and scope engineering projects that execute on the product roadmap

Benefits

• Flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want)
• Autonomy
• An environment that fosters growth, learning, and development
• We're relentlessly user-focused and believe in building long-term value, not short-term hacks
• We raised a $30M Series B to take our approach to the next level for years to come