Engineering Manager (EU)
Job description
Engineering manager role at Ashby to help build a different type of engineering team and culture, managing a growing team of engineers in Europe while staying hands-on and technical.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Help manage the growing team of engineers in Europe
- Build your team, their skills to thrive with the ownership they're given, and an environment that empowers them to do their best work consistently
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality
- Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention
- Jump into systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve developer experience
- Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts
- Think deeply about individual performance, process, and culture
- Spot patterns amongst the team, figure out a better way to operate, and build the automation that powers it
What we're looking for
- You love being technical and can hold in-depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend
- You enjoy management problems and get excited about driving people to be their best, giving difficult feedback, and building systems that make this easier
- You hold your team to a high standard and don't shy away from getting into the details and giving feedback
- You are an excellent and empathetic communicator
- You know what exceptional engineers look like
- You're good at thinking about product, business, and maybe even design, but not interested in calling the shots
- You thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments
- You enjoy coding and find time to stay up-to-date on technology
- You want to empower your team to make product decisions rather than making all of them yourself
- You are optimistic that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently than the status quo
Your team
Engineering
An experienced, talented, and collaborative team of 25+ engineers; you'll help manage the growing team of engineers in Europe.
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About Ashby
Ashby builds Talent Acquisition software. As engineers, we saw that recruiting teams were leveling up how they did their work, but the software held them back. So we built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. As we've set the standard for excellence in TA software, HR teams have pulled us into solving their problems in areas like onboarding and performance management.
Mission
To give Talent Acquisition teams the highest standard of tooling - software that's intelligent and powerful, provides insights into where they're failing, and automates or simplifies many of the tasks they're underwater with.
Key facts
- Engineering team of 25+ engineers
- Young startup where leaders wear multiple hats
- Engineering culture motivated by co-founders Abhik Pramanik and Benji Encz's belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hour
- Every Engineer runs their project; Product Managers and Designers build strategy, do customer research, and hand off problem briefs to Engineers
- Engineers research the problem, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement their solution end-to-end
- For junior EMs we try to stay within 6 direct reports
What they value
- Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage
- Putting effort into building a diverse team