Engineering Manager || Remote, US-based
Remote
Engineering – General - Engineering /
Full Time /
Remote
About Buoy Software
Our mission is to deliver the best experience possible to as many donors of blood products (such as plasma) as possible, in as many communities as possible. We use our understanding of blood product donation and the industry’s regulations and pair them with our extensive consumer product experience to enrich the lives of our members and improve health outcomes for patients everywhere.
In an industry that hasn’t seen innovation in more than two decades, Buoy’s software streamlines the donation process allowing our business to promote loyalty while improving efficiency in a donation center. In turn, the increase in blood product donations improves a supply level that is at an all time low, and allows for blood-product derived biotherapies to continue to evolve, improve, and save lives for those who face life-threatening conditions (i.e. immune deficiencies and blood disorders). Without an increase in blood product donations, we are facing a worldwide health crisis that ultimately results in rationing of care without the proper resources. Buoy Software is excited to be playing more of a role in improving the state of blood products and blood product donations.
We’re working alongside Join Parachute (www.joinparachute.com/) in the opening of small market donation centers across the country that will create local donation center careers, opportunities to donate blood products, and provide financial compensation for those donations that will have a positive economic impact in those communities.
The need for blood products is growing rapidly. We want to close the gap in blood product supply and demand by empowering organizations with the right tools. Buoy is the intuitive, data-driven mobile application for donors.
About the Role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team. You should be someone who is comfortable and experienced managing a fully-distributed team of engineers. You should believe in being a Manager of One -- doing less hand holding and empowering team members to do more by themselves and for themselves. You should enjoy coaching, mentoring and supporting the engineers on your team and collaborating with other leaders and teams across the company. Coding will not be a primary responsibility, but if and when needed, engineering managers will review code and possibly step in to assist. This position will have 3-4 direct reports to start, and the team will grow over time. Significant experience as a software engineer with Ruby on Rails and hands-on coding experience in the last 5 years of current work experience is preferred.
This position will be a fully remote position. We are currently open to considering remote candidates based in the United States only at this time.
As an Engineering Manager, you will...
- Set your direct reports up for success in a distributed team organization — enable individual career growth, development, and business impact
- Actively seek and hire world-class engineers
- Coordinate new-hire onboarding for your engineers. Evaluate and recommend improvements to the on-boarding process
- Collaborate with pod leads to create opportunities for your engineers to grow their skills, experience and responsibilities
- Maintain empathy for your engineers by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples include but are not limited too, evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on small non-critical path (bugs and/or features)
- Collaborate with pod leads to define and improve engineering processes and practices
- Facilitate agile retrospectives for the pods your team members represent
- Hold regular 1:1's with your engineers
- Give regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance
- Perform an annual review of the individual’s performance and professional growth
- Meet regularly with other leaders to maintain a fair and complete view of an engineers individual performance and how they are contributing to the overall health of the team
- Partner with peers and engineering leadership to define and monitor engineering KPIs
- Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical skills, professional responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
- Report to one of the Directors of Engineering
What we are looking for in an Engineering Manager candidate...
- Experience managing a fully-distributed software engineering team of at least 3-8 direct reports for at least 3-5+ years is preferred
- Experience building web applications end-to-end in a technical stack including Ruby on Rails, Typescript, GraphQL and Postgres -- experience with Ruby on Rails / hands on coding in the last 5 years of current work experience is preferred
- Experience working on all parts of the stack (frontend, backend, anything in between)
- Sees software engineering as a craft
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Desire to work autonomously, but will also collaborate and pair with other engineers
- High empathy -- you care about your teammates and our users, and you can put yourself in their shoes
- Embody Buoy's principles and values in every aspect of your work
- Representing Buoy and its values in communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions -- find out more in our Employee Handbook
In the first 30 days, you will...
- Learn how engineering operates at Buoy Software - we’ll help you get accustomed to Buoy’s process, terminology, and code review
- You’ll shadow team members in meetings and coding
- Be introduced to the team - we’ll help you start to get to know your colleagues, point of contacts for various scenarios, understanding dynamics within your pod and the broader engineering org
- Go through product demos to start to understand Buoy Software and how it works for both donors experience and donor processing
- Begin meeting with and getting to know your direct manager
- Begin meeting with and getting to know your direct reports
- Attend pair programming sessions with other team or pod members
In the first 60 days, you will..
- Become more familiar with how we work together as a pod and as a broader engineering organization
- Become more familiar with workflows and processes, and how Buoy Software does agile
- Understand goals for the product over the next 6 - 12 months
- Become more and more autonomous as you work with your pod to deliver successful features
- Begin to suggest changes and improvements to the product and/or internal processes
In the first 90 days, you will...
- Meet with stakeholders across the broader Buoy Software organization
- Become more familiar with the other departments across Buoy Software (including leadership, support, customer success, marketing, and people ops)
- Oversee the shipping of multiple successful features
$170,000 - $200,000 a year
Where you'll be
We are fully remote. We deeply believe in distributed teams at Buoy. We build projects around motivated individuals. We give our team the environment, support and trust they need to get the job done.
