Coursedog
Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ February 25th, 2025
MongoDB
Node.js
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Coursedog is hiring an Engineering Manager. This role involves managing high-performing Agile engineering teams, ensuring the delivery of quality code, and developing the technology strategy and long-term roadmap. The Engineering Manager will oversee team activities, provide technical feedback, assign tasks, and contribute to the product development in a hands-on capacity using technologies like Vue, Node.js, AWS, and Mongo.
Highlights
- Oversee and run engineering teams of 3-10 developers.
- Conduct daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and code reviews.
- Partner with tech leads to own technology strategy and technical roadmap.
- Experience with Vue, Node.js, AWS, and Mongo is beneficial.
- 5+ years of engineering experience and 2+ years of technical management required.
- Healthcare covers 99% of individual and 75% of dependent premiums.
- Offers 401k from day one and unlimited Paid Time Off.
- Provides up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Equity allocation for every employee.
Engineering Manager Full Description
We are seeking a hands-on leader with a track record of successfully shipping complex enterprise SaaS solutions to manage one or more of our high-performing Agile engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee and run one of our engineering teams, comprised of 3-10 developers.
- Run the team's daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, refinement, and retrospective meetings.
- Provide code review and feedback on code changes.
- Assign tasks to engineers.
- Communicate to product team bandwidth and availability.
- Ensure your teams ship quality code on time consistently, while also improving upon the stability and performance of the application.
- Partner with your technology lead and our senior staff to own the technology strategy and long-term technical roadmap for your teams.
- Partner with your product owner to develop the long-term roadmap and ensure the right mix of feature development, quality improvements, and tech debt investments.
- Own the reporting on core quality and delivery metrics.
- Be responsible for the long-term career growth, 1-1s, and day-to-day feedback of your team members. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that your team processes are efficient and add value, and for creating a great engineering culture.
- Own the hiring of developers and QA engineers for your teams.
- Jump in and work as needed in a hands-on, full-stack capacity to design, build, and maintain our product.
- Use a variety of technologies including Vue, Node.js, AWS, Mongo, and more to accomplish your goals.
- Contribute to education, product documentation, and support for the broader Coursedog organization, including interfacing with our Customer Success and Sales teams.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Must Haves
- 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ hands-on technical management experience.
- Been actively involved in setting product roadmaps and product strategy.
- Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
- BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or related field.
Nice To Haves
- Exceptional coding abilities and experience with Node.js, express, Vue, or MongoDb.
- Experience with deploying new products
- Experience with enterprise SaaS products
Working at Coursedog
Benefits
- Healthcare: We pay 99% of your medical, dental, and vision coverage and 75% of the premium for your spouse and/or dependents
- Retirement: We offer a 401k plan on day one of your employment.
- Paid Time Off: We value work-life balance and provide a high amount of autonomy. In service to this, our Paid Time Off policy has no annual limit.
- Remote-First: We value flexible working hours over set hours, results over number of hours, and asynchronous communication focused on transparency over need-to-know access.
- Equity: You’ll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Every employee on our team gets a meaningful equity allocation.
- Parental Leave: To help support new parents in the workplace, we offer up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Coursedog is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization and creating an inclusive environment for all.
We value and encourage the contributions of our employees and strive to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential and drive outstanding results. We draw strength from our range of interests, backgrounds, and perspectives
We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
Accommodations
Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities in all phases of the application and employment process. On your application, you will be prompted to inform us If you need any accommodation during this process.
