Engineering Manager, Software Development

Summary

Join Legion's mission to transform hourly jobs into high-quality employment opportunities. As an Engineering Manager, you will oversee and coordinate daily operations of a skilled engineering team, ensuring the achievement of company objectives. This role demands building and managing a global team, owning product delivery commitments, and continuously enhancing productivity. You will be responsible for hiring, strategic planning, performance improvement, and providing mentorship. The position requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a commitment to process improvement. Legion offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a remote work environment.

Requirements

• Thorough understanding of Computer Science & Software Engineering
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; Master's degree preferred
• At least eight years of related experience required

Responsibilities

• Hire and build a globally distributed, happy, and successful team
• Plan and execute long-term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s)
• Understand Engineering KPIs and seek to improve them
• Generate and implement process improvements
• Hold regular 1:1s with team members
• Provide your team with management mentorship
• Enable quad planning team collaboration within product groups
• Enable Product, Quality, and UX performance via solid, stable counterpart partnership
• Give regular and clear feedback on individuals’ performance
• Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs
• Improve product quality, security, and performance
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with Workforce Management Scheduling and Optimization
• Proactive and able to command respect through intelligence, hard work, and persistence
• Personal passion and fervor for industry-leading next-generation technology
• Ability to operate in an environment with limited resources
• A great communicator who can distill powerful messages that resonate with customers
• Track record of building positive relationships with peers
• Continuous and thoughtful listener, able to learn from others and leverage input
• Strong personal work ethic focused on high priority issues; action and results-oriented
• Unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character; demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior

Benefits

• $0 monthly premium and other flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective on the first day of employment
• 401k plan
• Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion