Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Leadership: You have the ability to guide a team by example. As a leader on our development team, you are able to instill the values of kindness, diversity, quality and ownership in the people around you and provide feedback on how to improve as a team.
• Teamwork: Many of the problems we encounter require insight from many parts of the business. Your ability to coordinate and communicate with your peers is essential to our success.
• Architecture: You have a strong understanding of the building blocks of a robust and scalable system. You are able to dissect business problems into well designed systems. You have the experience to know what to build and the discipline to know what not to.
• CS Fundamentals: You have an understanding of algorithms, data structures, design patterns and data storage technologies. You are able to select the right tool for the right job.
• Delivery Focused: Code on a laptop doesn’t solve problems. You know that a project is only done once it's delivered and validated. Residential construction is a large problem to tackle. You are inspired to complete a project because you know that 5 more problems are waiting to be tackled, and you do it all without sacrificing quality.
• Passion: Hard problems are not solved overnight. It takes a special kind of attitude and hunger to disrupt an entrenched industry. Your passion is what you share with every teammate at Joist. Passion for technology, passion for working as a team, passion for change, and passion for building an industry revolutionizing product.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience leading engineers as their direct manager in a product development environment, preferably managing teams that span multiple technology stacks
• 5+ years of professional industry experience as a software developer working in agile teams
• A successful record of mentoring and growing other engineers during your years of experience
• Experience managing cross-functional product squads that include Product Management, Design, and QA/SDET partners
• A proven ability to take ownership of software projects, from scoping and estimation all the way to being live in production
• Experience and passion for Agile, DevOps and Lean approaches to delivering software and value for our customers
• You know how to join and partner with Product Management to experiment, iterate, and ship fast for customers
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely about deeply technical topics in an easy-to-understand way
• You hold strong opinions about how to build great software and products but are receptive to the views of others; you know when to be flexible and when to hold steady
• You are an expert in agile software development processes

Benefits

• Flexibility to work where/how you want within your country of employment – in-office, remote, or hybrid
• Robust wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend
• Flexible and generous (FTO) time-off
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with 4% company match