Engineering Manager at Coolbet (New York, NY)Engineering Manager

We’re looking for an engineering manager who is inspired to mentor, grow, and help teams succeed, especially when the team is still small and nimble. You’re an experienced people manager and adept project manager who can guide developers to perform at their best and also remove any blockers that may appear.

As an engineering manager, you’ll lead a team of product developers as they build new features for our core web app.  You’ll keep the team engaged as we scale up; make sure that projects are running without a hitch; and bridge the gap with Product & Design to make sure that what we are building is on target and prioritizing customer value. As we onboard bigger customers and continue to evolve our product, you’ll guide your team to execute with efficiency, and consistency.

• Conduct weekly 1-1s with your direct reports. Mentor, coach, and train your reports on how to set quarterly goals, create plans to achieve them, and unblock any obstacles along the way
• Run the weekly engineering all-hands team meeting; set the agenda, encourage participation from the team, and ensure meeting runs efficiently
• Help the project team to coordinate their work; collaborate effectively with other functions; identify, communicate and reduce risk; run effective meetings and periodic project retrospectives
• Update and improve the Engineering onboarding process and documentation, ensuring that the next new hire onboarding is completed faster and easier than your own
• Work closely with the recruiting team and hiring panel to identify, vet and hire the best candidate for the team

• 3+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer developing production code
• Results-oriented with a strong customer and business focus
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, biased towards action in fast-paced environments
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems