Remote Tech Lead Manager, Swift Toolchain

Summary

The job is for a Tech Lead Manager in The Browser Company's Swift Toolchain team. The role involves managing a team, working on Swift and LLVM, and contributing to the overall Swift ecosystem. The company encourages diversity and offers flexible compensation, comprehensive benefits, remote work, and other perks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience with Swift, native application codebases, API design, compilers, programming language development, or improving the software development experience for engineers
• 2+ years of experience in hands on technical leadership
• Exposure to working on large scale open source projects as an external stakeholder (preferably, a major open source project like PHP, Hack, LLVM, Swift, WebKit, Chromium, Firefox) and a desire to continuously foster positive relationships with an open source developer community
• You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable
• You have a strong track record of coaching and mentoring senior engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
• You have expertise in tech leading critical projects and initiatives within your team and organization and know how to drive execution and productive pace
• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 4 engineers, ensuring their growth, development, and team health
• Promote an engineering culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Partner with engineers across various product teams to make decisions around technical strategy to power future product features
• Set goals and priorities that contribute directly to company level objectives
• Work closely with our developer experience team to ensure that product engineers can quickly build, debug, and ship features across iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android
• Ensure efficient product development cycles by treating developer velocity as a product, finding and fixing issues in the appropriate layer of the system
• Invest in observability, tooling, stability, processes and performance alongside building new systems
• Contribute to the LLVM and Swift project's health with the changes and work to improve that project for the larger community outside of The Browser Company
• Contribute to the broader engineering organization in terms of creating processes, recruiting, and onboarding

Benefits

• Flexible compensation model
• Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision. We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 90% for dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)
• Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate