Mid-Level Software Engineering Manager – Product Engineering (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Ashby is a rapidly growing company seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead and expand their engineering team. The role involves managing and mentoring engineers, influencing product and technical decisions, and driving initiatives to enhance engineering practices and team culture.

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.

• Propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives.

• 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.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience as a software engineer with a strong track record of building impressive products.

• Experience in managing and building teams of engineers.

• Ability to provide feedback on product and technical specs.

• Experience in coaching individual contributors (ICs) to make decisions.

• Ability to debug customer issues and ship bug fixes.

• Experience in proposing and leading department and company-wide initiatives.

• Ability to design and improve interview processes based on feedback.

• Experience in generating and simulating data in demo accounts.

• Strong coding skills and a passion for staying up-to-date on technology.

• Ability to thrive in a culture that values ownership and autonomy.

• Experience in leading teams with a focus on minimal process and high ownership.

• Ability to foster collaboration and deliberate communication within a team.

• Commitment to building a diverse team and creating opportunities for underrepresented groups.

Preferred:

• Experience in hiring engineers across multiple specializations.

• Experience in using developer tooling and CI/CD processes.

Company:

Ashby develops human resource software to assist companies with hiring and manpower management. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.