Summary
The job is for an Engineering Manager at Metabase, a data insights company that provides an opinionated open source business intelligence tool. The role involves building a culture of continuous improvement, hiring top-level engineering talent, coaching individuals, optimizing processes, and collaborating with other teams to plan and execute projects.
Requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication, with a bias to written communication to support async processes in a fully remote and distributed team
- 2+ years of engineering management experience or equivalent (you can demonstrate skill at key aspects of building and improving an engineering team, and supporting and developing people's careers)
- Ability to debug project execution to identify issues and changes to one or more of people, process, and project scope
- Strong product sensibilities - you can critically navigate product proposal docs and Figma designs and translate them to engineering requirements that span the Metabase product stack, and identify and mitigate risks to building them
- Strong technical background in one of: Clojure or Frontend (React + Typescript) ecosystems
Responsibilities
- Build a culture of continuous improvement to improve the cadence of execution, quality of work, and happiness in the engineering org
- Find, attract, hire, onboard, and nurture top-level engineering IC talent
- Coach individuals, tune processes, remove obstacles, and optimize the environment to continuously increase the speed of iteration
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Customer Success to appropriately plan and scope engineering projects that execute on the product roadmap
Benefits
- Flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want)
- Autonomy
- An environment that fosters growth, learning, and development
- We're relentlessly user-focused and believe in building long-term value, not short-term hacks
- We raised a $30M Series B to take our approach to the next level for years to come
