Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Greenhouse as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers. You will drive technical strategy, champion best practices, and foster a collaborative culture. Working closely with cross-functional partners, you'll deliver innovative solutions. This role requires proven experience leading engineering teams, expertise in technical strategy and architecture, and a strong understanding of SDLC best practices. Greenhouse offers a variety of benefits, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, and parental leave. The ideal candidate is a mentor, builder, empathetic leader, strategic thinker, clear communicator, and collaborator.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering teams (ideally 5+ individuals), including mentoring, performance management, and guiding collaborative technical decision-making
• Significant experience as a Senior or Lead Individual Contributor (IC) engineer
• Expertise in defining technical strategy and designing, evaluating, and implementing scalable, maintainable, and secure architectures for complex systems (leveraging cloud platforms, event-driven patterns, diverse databases, etc.)
• Strong understanding of SDLC best practices, API development (RESTful), relational/SQL databases, and experience integrating third-party software or services
• Experience effectively managing stakeholder and/or vendor relationships and expectations
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, fostering their performance, growth, and career progression through effective coaching and feedback
• Drive new initiatives for our post-hire products outside of Greenhouse Recruiting
• Drive the technical direction and architectural design for your team's domain, ensuring solutions are scalable, robust, and well-engineered
• Champion and implement SDLC best practices to ensure high-quality software delivery and team efficiency
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to define, prioritize, and deliver on product roadmaps
• Manage team performance, empowering individuals and motivating the team to achieve impactful results and meet objectives
• Actively foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team culture where all voices are heard and valued
• Facilitate effective team collaboration, guide sound technical decision-making, and manage stakeholder expectations
• Oversee the design, building, and integration of key first-party integrations

Preferred Qualifications

• Ruby on Rails development experience, preferred
• End-to-end product ownership experience, a plus
• Familiarity or experience with Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions, a plus

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Mental health resources
• Financial wellness benefits
• A fully paid parental leave program
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• A 401(k) plan and company match
• Up to 13 scheduled paid holidays and up to 80 hours of paid sick leave
• Up to 20-25 days of paid vacation time, depending on tenure
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)