Engineering Manager
Berlin
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Type - Permanent /
Hybrid
Engineering Manager @ Health Tech Company
We are reimagining the approach to personal well-being.
A leading health tech company is combining extensive scientific research and advanced AI to enhance the health of a vast population.
Created by prominent scientists, their personalised nutrition program is fundamentally transforming a core human necessity – maintaining a healthy diet tailored to your own body. Presently available in the US and the UK, with a waitlist exceeding 300,000, their initiative is already aiding tens of thousands of members in adopting healthier habits and achieving their aspirations.
They are also the team behind a prominent study related to a global health issue. This initiative has played a crucial role in addressing this concern and has now expanded to encompass a broader health study. This endeavour employs community-driven science to conduct large-scale research from contributors’ homes to comprehend health trends and prevent diseases. Their combined expertise in various disciplines has led to breakthrough publications in leading scientific journals.
As a remote-first startup with robust financial support, they are backed by individuals experienced in building substantial tech companies. They are constantly seeking innovative individuals to join them in addressing significant health challenges on a global scale. Together, they strive to enhance human health and impact millions of lives.
They highly value inclusivity, transparency, ownership, open-mindedness, and diversity. They are committed to delivering exceptional results and fostering open learning. Their teams are empowered to make impactful decisions, and the well-being of our colleagues and the community is a top priority.
About the team
The Growth and Payments team is integral to the growth of their product and the success of the company. They build software solutions to guide potential customers from initial curiosity about the company and their health, all the way to purchase. They do this by offering them insights on the science behind the products and the way it can change their lives. They maximise acquisition & convert prospects to customers, as well as deliver pricing that gets consumers happy to stay for a long time.
In terms of domain ownership, you will be covering a number of areas from awareness (ads, website) to Purchase (Paid social, SEO, Website, Quiz, nurture emails, Checkout), as well as Account management & Pricing & Referral schemes.
About the role
They are looking for someone to lead the team encouraging sustainable delivery at pace. You will partner with engineers, product managers and product designers to deliver great customer impact and make the company a great place to work.
You'll be
- Leading 1 team of 3-4 engineers, focusing on outcomes over output
- Hands-on when needed and help with code if required, as well as challenging engineers on their technical skills and contributing to technical discussions and systems design.
- Coaching, mentoring and developing high-performing engineers. Ensuring high psychological safety
- Partnering with their product and science teams to establish the roadmap and achieve sustainable throughput while iterating fast
- Challenging engineers on system design, scope or sequencing to deliver faster while decreasing the technical debt. You are not afraid to dive into a very technical conversation
- Actively tackling any bottleneck in the system, wherever they are
- Contributing to the evolution of their architecture, tools and processes
- Partnering with other engineering managers on cross cutting initiatives like hiring or onboarding.
We think you'll be great if you
- Are experienced in leading a distributed full-stack team, in a fast pace environment.
- Still consider yourself a software engineer at heart and are willing to be hands-on when required.
- Have managed 3+ direct reports before.
- Are someone who takes ownership and is comfortable with ambiguity.
- Provide clarity and make things happen at pace
- Have an appetite to work closely with their product team to test and release new ideas fast
- Challenge teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value
- Have great communication skills. Both verbal and in writing
We will also appreciate
- An incredible growth mindset. You read books, watch talks, listen to podcasts and are never afraid to try new things
- Experience building mobile apps
- Experience deploying machine learning in production
- Experience with scalability (backend, data pipelines)
Interview Process
- Intro to company with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
- Intro with their VP of Engineering or Senior Engineering Manager (30mins).
- Technical Interview & Systems Design (90 mins). As part of this stage, they will ask you to teach them something technical asynchronously (text or video) to assess your ability to go in-depth and communicate.
- Behavioural interviews with a Senior Engineering manager (60mins) and VP of Engineering (60 mins).
- Meet a senior stakeholder outside of Technology (30mins) and meet a founder (30mins).
This isn't for you if
- 💔 Their mission to help people live healthier lives doesn’t excite you.
- 💔 You aren’t comfortable with ambiguity, or thinking from first principles.
- 💔 You don’t enjoy working in a fast paced environment.
- 💔 You aren’t happy taking an MVP approach and doing what’s good enough for now
Why you'll love it there
- ⭐ You'll be energised by testimonials of members who had life-changing experiences
- ⭐ You’ll be surrounded by the most friendly, supportive colleagues you can imagine. They have assembled the sharpest minds from diverse backgrounds
- ⭐ As they grow, so will you! Their fast-paced, challenging environment offers you great opportunities for professional development, supported by a yearly growth budget (£150/€175/$200 no question asked budget and up to £750/€875/$1,000 with your manager's approval).
- ⭐ They embraced flexible and distributed working and keep everyone informed through their transparent culture. You will be in complete control of your work environment. They have an office open to you, but you are never required to use it. You can choose whether to come in and meet colleagues face to face, or be fully remote
- ⭐ Switching off is important! They understand that to do your best work, you also need to be able to relax and connect with your colleagues. Enjoy their fun virtual and face-to-face social events, supported by a $70/month social budget
What they can offer you
- Remote-first - work from home, pop into their London/Boston offices, or work within the EU; you have flexibility to choose your own place of work and work flexibly
- Stock options - they want everyone to be rewarded for contribution to their growth
- Paid time-off - on top of any national / bank holidays, you get 28 days off (25 plus 1 life-event and 2 company-wide reset days)
- Enhanced parental leave - Enhanced parental leave, family planning and pregnancy/adoption loss leave - adding on to the statutory offering, they know how important it is to be supportive at times that matter
- Private healthcare and life assurance - flexible options to choose what fits
- Health and wellbeing - ZOE nutrition product, Employee Assistance Program, Spill mental health support, Cycle to Work, yoga and more
- Pension - paying monthly and offering flexibility to top your pension up
- Allocated social, WFH and Growth (L&D) budgets from the day you join
- Plenty of learning and social opportunities
