Engineering Manager

At Fellow, our mission is to transform how teams collaborate and make meetings productive for everyone. As we continue to grow, we're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager who will play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering team and driving the development of our meeting productivity platform and AI Copilot. This is a critical position where you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact by leading and mentoring a team of talented engineers, enhancing our engineering practices, and influencing the technical direction of our products. If you're passionate about making a meaningful difference and excited to lead a team that's redefining meeting experiences worldwide, we'd love to hear from you.

Engineering at Fellow

At Fellow, our engineering team operates with a strong focus on efficiency, collaboration, and high-quality output. We work in 8-week build cycles that allow teams to concentrate deeply on their projects without the interruptions of weekly sprint planning meetings. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in planning and breaking down projects to fit into these cycles, ensuring that they include proper QA processes, thorough code reviews, and comprehensive testing. Our development practices are supported by a robust CI pipeline, linting tools, and a thoughtfully designed code structure. We maintain strong partnerships with our product team, enabling us to achieve high velocity while upholding exceptional code quality.

We believe that fostering a strong team culture is essential for innovation and success. We host regular book clubs centered around technical books, organize lunch-and-learns where team members share knowledge and insights, and hold bi-annual hackathons to build out our boldest ideas. We also place great importance on contributing to the engineering community: many team members are involved in open-source projects, publish technical articles, and speak at conferences and local meetups. As a leader, you will encourage and support your team's professional growth and community engagement, fostering an environment of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high-quality code.
• Technical Guidance: Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding the team through architectural decisions and complex problem-solving.
• Project Management: Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring projects are delivered on time and meet quality standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and QA analysts to create intuitive interfaces and great user experiences.
• Innovation with AI: Lead the team in experimenting with new AI technologies and LLMs to enhance our meeting productivity solutions.
• Best Practices: Promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, and CI/CD processes.
• Talent Development: Help team members grow in their careers through regular feedback and development plans.
• Strategic Planning: Contribute to technical specs, define and monitor release metrics, and align engineering efforts with business goals.

Ideal Candidates

• Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years in a leadership or managerial role.
• Technical Background: Strong experience in building web applications (e.g., with Django, Ruby on Rails, Node.js) and familiarity with front-end technologies like React/TypeScript.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and a proactive approach to identifying and solving problems.
• Passion for Innovation: Excited to bring new ideas to the table and eager to explore the latest technologies.
• Community Engagement: Interest in contributing to the engineering community through OSS, blogging, or speaking engagements is a plus.

This role is remote, with core hours from 10am to 4pm ET. Offices and co-working spaces are available in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto if desired, but are not mandatory.

About Fellow

Fellow is a Series A venture-backed startup (Craft, iNovia, Felicis) from the founders of Fluidware (acquired by SurveyMonkey). Our mission is to solve the world’s meeting problem, by helping people spend less time in meetings, and making meetings more productive. Fellow empowers managers and their teams to seamlessly collaborate on meeting agendas, leveraging the latest AI tech to transform the future of meetings, automating rote tasks and giving everyone superpowers. 

Fellow is pioneering the future of work through its category-defining meeting productivity platform, with a wide set of customers such as Shopify, Hubspot, Warner Media, Tucows, Dynatrace, and many more. Join us in shaping the future of work!

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Fellow, we understand the value of having a diverse team. That’s why we believe in providing equal opportunity employment regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, and conviction. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.