### **The Position**
As Engineering Manager at Remote, you will manage a team of Team Leaders. Your
job is to align vision across multiple teams, track progress, and improve
deliverability and productivity. You will take an active role in designing
your organization and hiring new team members.
If you don’t have experience managing other managers, consider applying for
our [Team Leader role](https://remote.com/openings/5731000003).
You'll be joining 100+ engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, Data and QA.
We're organized into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific
verticals.
Your teams will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for our
platform. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres
database. We use Typescript, React and Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is
used as version control tool and CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted
on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per
day.
### **What this job can offer you**
* Leading multiple distributed teams of backend and frontend engineers. You can trust them to take ownership of their daily tasks and challenges as you work closely with the Product Manager and stakeholders on the product roadmap and defining the problems to solve.
* Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
* Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
* A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups or other ceremonies. We expect you to have regular 1:1s with your team members, but you can organize them around your schedule.
* A supportive and kind work environment where you can grow and challenge yourself to do your best work.
* Pragmatic and product-focused Engineering culture — read more about our [practices and work ethic](https://www.notion.so/4abd0352ba1f4db385f28d94dab9cef2?pvs=21).
* Competitive salary, stock options, [unlimited PTO](https://www.notion.so/e2e71e5dcdef43ff82515d7c711ed4af?pvs=21), a generous learning budget, and a set of other perks and benefits.
### **What you bring**
* Experience leading two or more engineering teams of 2+ engineers for at least 1 year
* Good understanding of team dynamics, coaching, and mentoring
* Significant experience as a Frontend or Backend Engineer, which includes building, shipping, and maintaining a complex software project
* Solid knowledge and experience in Elixir and Postgres (or similar technologies)
* OR: Solid knowledge and experience in Javascript ES6 and React and familiarity with accessibility practices and semantic HTML
* Experience in dealing with ambiguity, working together with stakeholders on taking abstract concepts and turning them into working software
* Strong ability to work independently and self-guided
* Great communication and project management skills
* Curiosity and willingness to learn and develop
### **Practicals**
* **You 'll report to:** Engineering Director
* **Direct reports:** 2-5 Engineering Team Leads
* **Team:** Engineering
* **Location** : Anywhere in the world
* **Start date:** As soon as possible
### **Remote Compensation Philosophy**
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and
fair [equity](https://www.notion.so/people-Belonging-Diversity-Equity-
Inclusion-DEI-4990e36a7d7b4d52a78ca3efb23d718b?pvs=21) pay along with
competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to
or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-
location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-
hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
### **Application process**
Roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks
1. Interview with recruiter
2. (async) Take home challenge — you will analyse a complex situation in your team and explain how you would approach it. All in writing.
3. (async) Challenge Review
4. Interview with Hiring Manager
5. Interview with team members
6. Executive Interview
7. [Prior employment verification check](https://www.notion.so/96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b?pvs=21) (Read more at [remote.com/employment-checks](http://remote.com/employment-checks))
#LI-DNI
Remote focuses on Marketplaces, Recruiting, and Freelancers. Their company has
offices in Remote. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To
date, Remote has raised $196k of funding; their latest round was closed on
July 2021 at a valuation of $1M.
You can view their website at <http://remote.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/remote),
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/remote.com/), and [Product
Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/remote-3).
