Ashby is looking to scale its engineering team and maintain its unique culture of high-performing engineers. The company needs an Engineering Manager to build and lead teams, hire new engineers, and contribute to the evolution of its engineering practices.
Requirements
- great (former) engineer who built impressive products and now builds teams of great engineers
- You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology.
- You believe that with enough guardrails, the team can get things done.
- A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase
- The team is really helpful and our dev environment is pretty awesome: it sets up in a single script and you’ll be able to push your first product change on day one.
Responsibilities
- Providing 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.
- Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience.
- 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 interviews based on candidate and team feedback.
- Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts.
- ship some product changes and features.
Other
- builds teams of great engineers
- grassroots leadership
- You’ll manage three to five Engineers and hire three to five more.
- You’ll also propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives.
- You follow the rules and accept the hand you’ve been dealt.
- You went into management because it was the only growth path available.
- You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy.
- To you, a Staff or Principal Engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or conducting architecture reviews.
- You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo.
- You’ll be an important part of figuring out how to scale these methods from 50 engineers to 100 and beyond.
- The best engineers we’ve worked with delivered reliably magical outcomes.
- Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind
- We also meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company.
- You also have a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby.
- In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.
- Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
- We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
