Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Ashby's engineering leadership team as an Engineering Manager and build a high-performing team. You'll be responsible for selecting, supporting, and scaling engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and autonomy. The role involves providing feedback, coaching engineers on large projects, and improving processes. You'll also contribute to projects like improving pull request reviews, interview tracks, and internal systems. Ashby values excellence in hiring and provides time for personal projects. The ideal candidate is a technical leader who empowers their team and is passionate about building a positive engineering culture.

Requirements

• Be technical and able to hold in-depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend
• Know what exceptional engineers look like
• Hold your team to a high standard and don’t shy away from getting into the details and giving feedback, even to the best folks on your team
• Be good at thinking about product, business, and maybe even design
• Think engineering culture and process could use improvement
• Be an excellent and empathetic communicator
• Have worked on successful products in great environments

Responsibilities

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality
• Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects, and deliver them with little intervention
• Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal to the team about what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the time and space to give useful feedback
• Design and improve interview tracks based on candidate and team feedback
• Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience
• Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts
• Select, support, and scale engineers

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience shipping products and user-facing experiences

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
• Generous paid family leave