Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Mozilla and help shape the future of the internet! As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers working on either the DOM team (web standards implementation) or the SpiderMonkey Javascript team (Javascript engine). You will mentor and guide engineers, own the team roadmap, assign work, and ensure high-quality software delivery. Collaboration with the open-source community is key. This role requires 2+ years of people management experience and a software engineering background. Mozilla offers a generous compensation and benefits package, including performance-based bonuses, comprehensive health coverage, retirement contributions, wellness days, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on people management experience
• Experienced functional manager with proven skills leading a team of diverse engineers, with the ability to mentor team members that have different skill sets from your own
• Proven project management skills, enabling leadership of the team to deliver and maintain complex software projects
• Software engineering background, providing the experience needed to drive technical decisions and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority, while empowering tech leads as the primary designers and decision makers
• Proficiency with software development lifecycle practices for triage, prioritization, and execution
• Passion for resolving problems, managing risks, leading change and facilitating collaborative decision making

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software engineers working on storage, background, and system-level Web APIs and standards, or the SpiderMonkey Javascript engine and related standards
• Mentor and guide a diverse team of engineers, inspiring collaboration, growing their careers, and empathizing with their needs
• Owner of the team roadmap, and working closely with platform peer managers, product management and technical leads, to manage risks, balance resources and clear blockers
• Assign work to team members according to individuals abilities, while in parallel collaborating with the team to deliver major initiatives on clear timelines
• Ensure that your team delivers well-planned, high quality, and maintainable software
• Collaborate openly with the open source community

Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)