Engineering Manager

The Engineering Team

We have grown quickly within the last year to our current team size of 35 which is made up of the CTO, VP of Engineering, 4 Engineering Managers and 29 engineers split across backend, infrastructure and fullstack specialisations.

Rather than "move fast and break things", we aim to move thoughtfully and to make few mistakes. We are an output-driven environment that operates with extreme autonomy; people are free to keep their own hours and we don't micro-manage each other.

Our backend stack is Clojure, FoundationDB, Kubernetes and AWS

Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, Reagent, React, Stitches, Storybook, and Playroom

Who are you?

The ideal candidate for this job will have most of the following:

• You are deeply passionate about helping others achieve their goals and become the best engineers they can be whilst avoiding burnout
• You actively look for cross functionality and have experience working with product and operations teams.
• You have recent experience as a senior engineer or in a technical leadership role using functional languages (Clojure, Elixir, Haskell etc).
• You have a solid understanding of what good looks like for a high-performing engineering team of different skillsets and experience levels.

What will you be doing here?

As an Engineering Manager at Griffin, you will:

• Be a leader of one or more teams, taking accountability for their deliveries and the health of their technology
• Manage your teams sprints, making sure that development work is ready to be picked up, estimated and prioritised to optimise output.
• Coach your teams in everything from architectural vision to operational excellence
• Collaborate with the CTO and product management team to set and execute against the right goals
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
• Work with our VP of Engineering to build a long term roadmap for the development of our engineers
• Support the team in maintaining a high technical standard and best working practices
• Take a prominent role in recruiting across engineering and product

The interview process

1. Get to know you with a member of Talent
2. Deep dive into your experience and approach to leading engineering teams, collaboration across functions, and thought leadership with our VP of Engineering.
3. Take home task looking at your writing and coding in Clojure.
4. Discussion around deep technical topics with peers, system design skills, and knowledge of APIs
5. Griffin culture interview with Grifflings outside of the Engineering Guild, and an opportunity to meet one of our founders.