Engineering Manager (Remote)

Canny's customer feedback platform is actively used by thousands of companies to build better software products.

We are...

• Fully remote with no office
• 13 people, spread across 4 countries (US, Canada, Italy, Turkey)
• Bootstrapped (no outside funding), profitable, and growing

We're hiring an engineering manager to support, manage, and grow our engineering team. As a product-led growth company, our engineering team is our largest team (roughly half the company), and fuels lots of growth for our company.

Canny is a remote, asynchronous workplace where engineers are very independent and self-organized individuals. It's important that managers can also effectively support their team while maintaining a mostly asynchronous environment (obviously 1:1s are in realtime over Zoom).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, engineering teams and leadership to define product strategy
• Ensure entire product team has projects to work on that aligns with company and personal development goals
• Weekly 1:1s with team to check in on project progress, performance, career development
• Collaborate with engineering team on high-level codebase decisions and technical leadership
• Own recruiting processes when it comes time to grow the engineering team

Technologies

• Front-end: React, Redux, Webpack, Sass, ES6
• Back-end: Node.js, MongoDB, Isomorphic React
• Cloud: AWS, MongoDB Atlas, CircleCI
• Communication: Slack, Zoom, Missive (email)

Compensation

• Base salary varies by location but is highly competitive in pretty much all areas except San Francisco, New York, and Seattle (for example, Canada: $140k-$175k CAD)
• Bonus program (default is 8% of bonus salary, varies by performance)
• Raises (compensation reviews happen twice per year)
• Significant equity grant

Required Qualifications

• You have multiple years of professional software engineering experience, and production experience with JavaScript
• You have multiple years of experience managing a software engineering team
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You are self-motivated and have strong organization skills
• You have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term:
  • within the last 5 years, you've worked at one company for at least 2 years
• You are able to thrive in a fully remote organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an engineering manager at a SaaS startup
• Experience working with tools from our tech stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS)
• Experience working with a remote team
• Experience building enterprise and/or SaaS software