Engineering Manager

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage Engineering teams, ensuring members of the team's performance align with the overall department goals by holding direct reports accountable to performance expectations.
• Coach, mentor, and advocate for your engineers, growing a stronger team through stronger individuals. 
• Responsible for the delivery of high-quality, scalable software to production on a regular basis, owning the quality, documentation, tests, and communication across teams. 
• Manage the team’s day-to-day with a high awareness of what your team/teams are doing to remove blockers and ensure efforts are in sync with the priorities. 
• Keep your team informed of the priorities and vision that is driving the organization, making sure they understand the what and the why, to advance the organization’s goals.
• Advance the organization's goals within your team and ensure success in hitting them. 
• Exhibit ownership end to end, and claim your team’s wins and failures with a mindset of continuous improvement.
• Work with your Director of Engineering, peers, and our Product partners to scope, plan, and execute with impeccable communication around estimates and risk.
• Recognize the gaps and needs of your teams and take action to solve them.
• Analyze, design, implement and optimize processes that your teams will leverage to be effective.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and SMEs to support growth initiatives and drive alignment on shared vision and objectives.
• Contribute your leadership and expertise to the broader organization, influencing more than just your team. 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience. 
• 1+ year of people management or team leadership experience, including performance and career development. 
• Clear ability to pragmatically balance business priorities with technical constraints.
• Experience driving initiatives, while holding teams accountable for results and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

The Perks of Working With Us

• Take advantage of excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
• Invest in your future with our matching 401(k) program.
• Build relationships and take part in learning opportunities through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Enjoy office wide engagement activities, team events, happy hours and more!
• Leave the suit and tie at home; our dress code is casual.
• Work in the heart of downtown Chicago, IL!
• Sweat it out at the LifeStart gym in our office building that includes brand new Peloton bikes, top-of-the-line equipment and personal training options.
• Maximize your wellness with free counseling sessions through our Employee Assistance Program
• Get paid to work with your friends through our Referral Program!
• Get relocation assistance! If you are not local to the area, we offer relocation packages and have a Candidate Engagement Specialist who can answer any questions.