Engineering Manager

About you

• You have 6+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• You have 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• You have experience working cross functionally to build prioritized roadmaps for your teams.
• You can balance shipping new features, managing tech debt and investing in system improvements.
• You are hands-on and perform code reviews and bug investigation when needed.
• You are comfortable writing SQL queries to analyze data and find inconsistencies.
• You work with your team to ensure that they are consistently producing value and quality software through shorter iterative development cycles.
• You work with your team to improve the quality of our products, ensuring that they meet product requirements, customer needs, and SLAs.
• You provide technical leadership to the team and can work with engineers to help guide them into important technical decisions.
• You have experience working with engineers at different levels and have coached them in their career development.
• You are customer obsessed, prioritizing their outcomes and experiences

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a highly engaged distributed team by hiring, supporting, coaching the team to deliver consistently and continuously seek ways to make an impact.
• Work cross functionally primarily with product, design and support teams to set direction for the team, anticipate strategic and scaling related challenges through thoughtful long term planning
• Work with your team on the iterative execution of the roadmap and build efficient & transparent processes for consistent and predictable delivery.
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development.
• Work with other engineering managers to continuously improve our organization & create a strong sense of ownership, belonging and inclusivity.

In the first month, you'll

• Get up to speed on our current technical projects
• Meet every contributor on your team and understand what their areas of expertise are
• Meet EMs and PMs from other teams to understand what those teams are doing.
• Work with your team and understand how we do iterative development and the team processes
• Collaborate with your design and product peers to understand current team priorities.
• Schedule 1:1’s with your team to get to know them better

Within the first 3 months, you'll

• Have shipped your first big feature and learned about what worked (and what didn't)
• Collaborate with the product and design team and deliver quarterly planning
• Understand how RevenueCat is used by customers and the areas of focus for your team to help build a better customer experience.
• Work with your team to define milestones and deliverables and ensure that the team is shipping iteratively.
• Understand the short and long term goals of your team, and help them with their career planning and progression
• Work with the recruiting team and your peers to hire for the company.

Within the first 6 months, you'll

• Have established and refined processes to enable shipping fast and reliably
• Understand the team dynamics and be able to predict team capacity around project execution and are now planning ahead for the team
• Champion technical improvements and debt reduction alongside feature development
• Be part of technical discussions and guide the team to come to an optimal solution

Within the first 12 months, you'll

• Have built domain knowledge and can easily debug, route and prioritize any incoming triage issues
• Have established clear communication guidelines within the team to enable open and honest communication
• Have helped bring in the right talent to RevenueCat through interviews, sourcing and screening for candidates who are aligned with our company values
• Have built trust with the team through relationship building, mentoring and coaching and providing them opportunities and timely feedback to help them grow
• Have a thorough understanding of how our product works and are able to communicate and guide the team in planning and prioritizing work and finding opportunities