Engineering Manager

Summary

The job is for a Technical Team Lead at ZOE, a remote-first startup focused on personalized nutrition and improving human health through scientific research and AI. The role involves leading a team of 3-6 engineers, focusing on outcome over output, collaborating with cross-functional teams, delivering customer impact, and ensuring high psychological safety.

Requirements

• Experienced in leading a distributed full-stack team, in a fast pace environment
• Comfortable with ambiguity and providing clarity
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Servant leader who leads by example, finding opportunities for others to grow and shine
• Enjoys stepping back and seeing problems from a different perspective in order to find innovative solutions
• Great communication skills, both verbal and in writing
• Experience with paired programming
• Data-driven, challenging teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Pay close attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality code

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of 3-6 engineers
• Delivering meaningful customer impact
• Ensuring high psychological safety, where collaboration and equal voice are cornerstones of the team culture
• Partnering with other engineering managers on cross-cutting initiatives like hiring or onboarding
• Building good relationships with your stakeholders to establish a roadmap that delivers value to our members
• Releasing small changes regularly to get fast feedback from our users
• Optimising application performance and ensuring smooth user experience across different platforms and devices
• Providing constructive feedback through code reviews and regular 1:1s

Preferred Qualifications

• Incredible growth mindset, reading books, watching talks, listening to podcasts, and never afraid to try new things
• Experience building mobile apps
• Experience with scalability (backend, data pipelines)
• Experience working with Support teams, and understanding best practices for handling Support at scale
• Experience working with payments and finance
• Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) and UI component libraries (e.g., Material-UI, Ant Design)
• Experience deploying machine learning in production