Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Fountain, a leading enterprise solution for frontline workforce management, and become part of a growing team. We're looking for a leader to build and manage our engineering hub in Mexico City. This role requires building and mentoring a team, developing high-quality products, fostering customer empathy, and ensuring fast, value-driven delivery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in our tech stack and managing high-performing teams. Fountain offers a unique work environment with remote flexibility and various benefits, including health plans, retirement plans, flexible vacation, paid holidays, and stipends.

Requirements

• 10+ years working with technologies in our tech stack (Ruby, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Postgres, MongoDB and Elasticsearch, to name a few)
• Previous experience managing high-performing technical teams
• Experience solving engineering challenges in large-scale, globally-distributed, event-driven web applications
• Familiarity with adjacent functions (product, marketing, automation, operations) and a track record of working with them to get things done
• Use your development expertise to manage projects, priorities, and timelines
• Mentor other team members while raising the bar on design techniques and coding standards
• Experience with test driven development and a culture of engineering testing
• Strong communication skills: able to effectively communicate to team members, stakeholders and customers across many timezones. Business proficiency in spoken and written English is required

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and mentor an engineering team
• Build and maintain great products
• Grow a spirit of customer empathy across the team
• Move fast and with purpose, and your teams will do the same
• Focus on delivery of value, and quick iterations based on real feedback
• Lead from the middle, rolling up your sleeves and helping the team deliver

Preferred Qualifications

Experience deploying applications to a cloud-native environment (we use Kubernetes)

Benefits

• Competitive health plans
• A retirement plan
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid holidays
• Monthly lunch stipends
• Annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement
• Home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements