Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Rocket.Chat as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead engineering teams focused on delivering exceptional collaboration experiences. You will report to the CTO and work remotely from Latin America. This role requires proven experience managing technical teams, expertise in agile practices, and a software development background. Strong project management and Javascript/Typescript skills are essential. Rocket.Chat offers a flexible, fully remote work environment with unlimited paid time off, various benefits, and a vibrant company culture.

Requirements

• Fluent English
• Proven experience managing technical teams
• Experience with agile practices & frameworks
• Software development background
• Experience with Javascript/Typescript programming languages
• Strong project management skills

Responsibilities

• Continuously assess and validate hiring plans based on engineering/squad needs
• Help engineers grow their tech and soft skills
• Identify the need for Coaching and/or Mentoring to direct reports providing it or identifying the best person to do it
• Hold regular 1:1's with all team members
• Work closely with product managers to understand and contribute to product strategy
• Ensure that team members understand the purpose, business drivers and impact of upcoming and WIP tasks
• Run an agile team as a servant leader supporting the chosen framework
• Facilitate cross-squad communication and blocker removal
• Expedite decision-making on the team focusing on building the product the right way
• Support the team to transform product roadmap into well-defined and detailed plans for execution
• Guarantee adherence to established plans and manage expectations towards its conclusions
• Confirm completeness of requirements and acceptance criteria on engineering tasks as usability, performance and reliability
• Track team capacity and velocity, making sure sprint points are correctly attributed
• Be on top of team progress toward objectives (sprint, release, roadmap)
• Balance engineering initiatives vs product expectations
• Guide team to work towards company OKRs
• Seek and promote process improvement
• Align among different squads Release Candidates and Final Release scope and dates
• Support daily, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings
• Identify and communicate operational and delivery risks
• Work to maintain a backlog of technical debts and incentivize engineers to contribute and prioritize it
• Coordinate with Product Management and Design to ensure proper sequencing and loading of backlog and WIP engineering tasks
• Solicit technical design input and review from tech leads and architecture team members as needed
• Report on your team’s status, product quality, and performance/operational excellence metrics

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with open-source software

Benefits

• Flexible Working Hours
• Fully Remote
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Holidays and Vacation Days
• Company Laptop and Headphone
• Remote Benefit
• ITalki
• Courses and Books
• Stock Options
• Multicultural environment with colleagues in over 26 countries
• Vibrant Company Culture