Senior Engineering Manager - Grafana Frontend (Remote, Canada EST)

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Requirements:

• Strong technical background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenging teams to arrive at strong technical decisions themselves
• Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision making, be it technical or product focussed
• Ideally you have a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience from having worked as an engineer before moving into Management.
• You have enough technical skills/understanding of our React/TypeScript stack to manage a highly technical team/product.
• You’re experienced in Cloud-first delivery practices, promoting continuous automated testing and feature toggles as ways to mitigate risk.
• You’re familiar with being on-call and performing operational tasks with the use of runbooks.

Responsibilities:

• Regular 1:1s to ensure your direct reports are motivated, happy and engaged
• Coaching and mentoring of your direct reports
• Providing continuous feedback to engineers to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
• Performing project management tasks to ensure successful incremental delivery
• Regular collaboration with Product Management and Product Design peers
• Ensuring features are well-defined and ready for development
• Advising your reports on how to break down features into tasks
• Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product strategy, roadmaps and technical designs
• Maintaining headcount by working with our People Ops team to attract and hire talent
• Being an active member of our on-call rota for Grafana Frontend