Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join ZenBusiness as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of talented engineers building and maintaining products for entrepreneurs. You will work closely with various teams to deliver new features and enhancements. This fully remote role requires at least 2 years of leading high-performance teams and 5 years of relevant software development experience. You will mentor engineers, manage projects, and foster a positive team environment. ZenBusiness offers competitive salaries, benefits, equity, and a supportive remote culture with various team-building activities. The company values diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of leading high-performance technology teams
• At least 5 years of relevant software development experience
• Experience in leading teams in shipping web-based products, in partnership with product owners and designers
• Experience working with any of the technologies in our stack
• Extensive experience in operations, API development, and modern service-oriented architecture
• Demonstrable passion for excellent products and dazzling customer experiences, and proven track record for delivery of innovation & industry-leading products
• Demonstrate a bias for coaching up a strong succession of talent
• Excited about working with product owners to create an amazing user experience
• Ability to work independently, and focus on the right problem at the right time
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in a dynamic and disruptive environment
• Curious and comfortable learning new things and diving in where needed
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate your decisions, whiteboard new solutions, present ideas concisely, and defend your ideas

Responsibilities

• Maintain and raise engineering and operational excellence by mentoring, coaching, working side by side, and reviewing the work of your team
• Work closely with management, customers, design, product management, data teams, and customer support to maintain and enhance existing products as well as to develop new products in an agile environment
• Lead teams through rapidly evolving complex demands, including multiple projects with dependencies on other internal organizations
• Work in an agile, data-driven environment and have true ownership of the features your teams are accountable for, from gathering requirements to delivering results to maintenance
• Act as a hands-on technical leader with experience designing and developing consumer-facing web applications and APIs using cutting-edge technologies, acting as a mentor for the engineering team, and providing guidance and support to less experienced developers
• Integrate and leverage 3rd party software and APIs as well as manage customer data across these platforms
• Create a culture of high-quality, predictable, observable code that is delivered to production
• Act as a leader of high-growth talent, committed to fostering a culture of coaching, leading by example, and empowerment amidst a lean-startup (agile) development environment, where we learn by doing with trust in our people and science to discover the optimal path to business success
• Recruit and retain top talent
• Create a fun virtual environment for the team - team events, morale building, team building, and bonding activities

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance
• Parental and military leave
• Employee assistance program
• 401k + match
• Annual bonus
• Pet insurance
• RSUs
• Paid parking
• 10 paid holidays