Engineering Manager

About the Role:

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to manage a team of engineers working on the Airbase spend management platform. You will - initially manage up to 5 engineers, partner with the product owners of specific areas of the platform from an engineering perspective, help define the product roadmap and deliver a high quality product. We're looking for someone who has a strong background as an individual contributor engineer and is now passionate about building teams and people management. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Manage a team of backend and frontend engineers in one or more product areas
• Conduct regular 1:1s with direct reports
• Mentor engineers and help them plan career growth
• Lead the hiring process for your team
• Constantly be on the look out for opportunities to recruit good engineers. Build relationships even when there are no open roles on your team
• Collaborate with PMs to define roadmap for your area of the product
• Plan the work of your team. At Airbase, EMs commit to deliverables based on the defined roadmap and are ultimately accountable for shipping it.
• Be an active participant in important engineering choices made by the team
• Help define and protect the engineering culture at Airbase

What You'll Bring:

• At least 2-3 years of engineering management experience with a total of 8 years or more experience.
• At least 5 years experience developing web applications and backend services as an IC in a professional setting.
• You should have played a lead role in building, shipping and maintaining a non-trivial production service as an individual contributor.
• If you're a strong individual contributor as a backend engineer, you should have a decent understanding of frontend technologies and vice versa.
• An ability and willingness to get your hands dirty and help build and ship the product when it's required
• You must have worked at a startup as an IC or EM.
• Must have an excellent understanding of how the web works.
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: code reviews, continuous-deployment, automated testing.
• Must be willing to constantly learn new things.
• Passionate about joining a small team and building a company.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have:

• A history of working on side/hobby projects and contributing to open source projects is a plus.