Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Valimail, a leading email authentication company, as a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team of 4-5 engineers working on customer-facing web applications. You will drive team prioritization, coach engineers, provide feedback, partner with product and design teams, and contribute to software development (10-80% hands-on). The role requires experience leading engineering teams, managing engineers using Ruby on Rails, and working in Agile methodologies. Valimail offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, six weeks of paid parental leave, a remote-first work environment, and unlimited PTO.

Requirements

• 1+ years of professional experience leading an engineering team and working closely with a product organization
• 1+ years of professional managing 3+ engineers
• 4+ years of professional experience building features in Ruby on Rails
• Experience working in Agile development methodology
• Strong self-motivation
• A drive to learn quickly and constantly adapt to new challenges

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 4-5 Engineers responsible for our customer facing web application
• Drive team prioritize and advocating for technical improvements to the platform
• Coaching and enabling the team to come to the best solutions to proposed problems
• Providing regular feedback and performance evaluation, along with career development conversations, consistent with organizational practices
• Partner with Product and Design to enable the team to build features that will drive business growth
• Engage hands-on in developing software alongside your team (this could range from 10-80% on a daily basis)
• Partner with QA, SRE and our Principal Engineer to deliver high quality, scalable software
• Provide high level estimations to business stakeholders when necessary

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to the Email authentication space

Benefits

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated pay range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000. Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience
• Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
• Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth
• Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
• Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work