The Job
As a fully distributed organization, we use Slack as our office, Jira for transparency and organizing work, and video calls for real-time collaboration (and just to hang out face to face).
If you are interested in the role, but don’t meet all of the criteria listed below, please apply anyway. We understand that growth is continuous and we are committed to helping you grow at Laterpay.
Responsibilities
- As the engineering manager for the Services Team, your responsibilities will span several different areas, covering people, team and technical outcomes.
- You’ll be an active member of the team with 5-7 backend engineers who will report directly to you.
- You’ll coach and help your team members grow personally and professionally through regular 1on1s, feedback/reviews, goal setting and career development planning. You’ll also help develop our people management practices with the wider engineering management team.
- You’ll lead technical delivery in the team, contributing to and executing on the technical vision, working closely with the rest of the engineering leadership team, product managers and designers. You’ll prioritize, organize and structure work on your team’s roadmap, while ensuring we build the right thing the right way, with good quality, sound architecture and efficient delivery.
- You’ll support the team by providing a clear vision, removing obstacles, optimizing development processes and being the champion for continuous improvement.
- You’ll advise and mentor engineers on best practices for designing and architecting solutions, including design reviews, code reviews and introducing new technologies.
About you
Deep caring for supporting and developing people
You believe that people are the most important part of an organization, and your top priority is to help them grow and be happy. We want you to be enthusiastic about helping people achieve their goals and coaching teams to be awesome.
Understanding the dynamics of a distributed team
We’d like you to have an understanding of the challenges of working in a distributed team, and the challenges that teams have when they’re distributed, especially around communication and collaboration. Experience of running development teams is essential, and experience of running distributed development teams would be great.
Good command of English, written and verbal
As a distributed team, we primarily communicate via Slack, so the ability to clearly and completely communicate in written English is vital. We also frequently hop on calls, both audio and video, so the ability to clearly speak and understand English is also vital.
How we work
- Be fearless. Be entrepreneurial.
- Simplify things.
- Own your decisions. Your successes. Your mistakes.
- Enjoy diversity and inclusion.
- Work as a team. Trust each other.
Benefits
- AllHands (biannual team event, virtual until we’re allowed to travel again)
- Training budget (1,000/year)
- Paid sick leave
- Paid time off
- Distributed, international team
- Flexible work
- Company laptop
Apply
- Upload your CV,
- Tell us a bit about yourself and your experience in a cover letter