Engineering Manager - Pipelines

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Requirements:

• At least three years’ experience as an Engineering Manager working on a SaaS product (B2B or B2C) at an (ideally early-to-mid-stage) SaaS company
• Understands SaaS software architecture, languages (we use Go), technologies, and cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) deeply enough to represent their squad’s technical choices across the company
• Makes time to understand technical architecture, tinker with new technologies, review proposals, and provide feedback to level up the engineers around them
• Builds and nurtures high performing teams
• Is fueled to reach higher when our customers are having a bad day
• Communicates concisely, accurately, and directly, both verbally and in writing

Responsibilities:

• Lead effective squad rituals, and ensure production readiness through quality peer-review, quality standards, documentation, deployment, logging, and monitoring practices
• Ensure your squad’s solutions are scalable, architecturally sound, flexible, and secure
• Create accountability for delivery timelines while fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and empathetic work environment
• Provide direct, timely, and specific coaching and development opportunities for your direct reports across backend, front-end, full stack, and QA
• Hire, onboard and manage performance to ensure the right people are in place to accomplish business objectives within your squad
• Understand Customer.io’s vision, business model, target markets, acquisition channels, competitors, and products well enough to ask questions that drive meaningful investigation within your squad
• Build and maintain a partnership with your Product Management and Design peers