Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Stack Overflow as an Engineering Manager and help your teams reach their full potential. You will directly manage two engineering teams, run team exercises, conduct weekly 1:1s with direct reports, and collaborate with other Agile team members. You will also work with Directors to ensure alignment with organizational goals, provide career guidance, mediate conflicts, and promote diversity and inclusion. This role requires 4+ years of experience managing engineers, 2+ years of software engineering experience, and demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies and personnel management. Stack Overflow offers competitive benefits, including generous paid vacation, parental leave, equity, industry-leading health benefits, life insurance, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience directly managing engineers in a modern engineering environment
• 2+ years of software engineering experience with knowledge of MVC architectures, modern web development practices and general common architecture practices
• Demonstrated practical experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure
• Positive experience with Agile development methodologies and practices with demonstrated experience of at least one methodology (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with personnel management practices and techniques, including, but not limited to
• Goal setting
• Positive and negative feedback
• Effective 1:1’s
• Career guidance
• Communication
• Conflict resolution
• Basic project management skills
• A strong desire to help their reports reach their full potential and progress in their careers
• Experience managing remote-first or distributed teams of engineers
• A track record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion on their teams and product
• Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology

Responsibilities

• Directly managing 2 engineering teams consisting of between 3 to 6 engineers on each team
• Run all of our general team exercises, such as goal setting, check-ins, reports, trainings, etc. for all members of your teams
• Have weekly 1:1’s with all direct reports
• Work with other Agile team members such as Product Managers, Agile Leaders, Tech Leads, and others, to ensure that team level goals are being met
• Work with Directors to ensure that teams are executing projects and functions necessary to meet organizational strategic needs
• Organize and run any meetings necessary for their teams to accomplish their goals
• Provide career guidance and help engineers manage their career progression at Stack Overflow
• Mediate and resolve conflicts

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary
• Generous paid vacation
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Equity for all employees at all levels
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
• Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive