Engineering Manager

It's with that in mind that Beyond is looking to add an Engineering Manager to our growing team. You will have the opportunity to work with a cohesive team of talented engineers, backed up by a strong culture and trust capital. By helping us better organize, coaching our players, clearly communicating both internally and externally, and driving empowerment with accountability, you will play a key role in Beyond’s success.

Before reading further...

Beyond is passionate about diversity and cultivating our team’s potential. If you’re hungry for a good opportunity, but don't meet every point in this job description, please apply anyway!

Beyond's Engineering team believes in:

• Reducing scope - The best way to control progress and test hypotheses is to prevent scope creep.
• Shipping early - The best way to learn early is to ship early. No need to be perfect.
• Iterating and improving - Once we get the feedback we need, we iterate and improve.
• Taking ownership - The code we ship is our responsibility as we know it best, and we also take care of sharing knowledge so others can support it
• Delivering value - By focussing on providing the best customer experience possible, we improve acquisition, retention, and drive revenue.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for:

• Running a continuous weekly 1:1 practice and removing blockers for your teammates
• Establishing career growth objectives and providing continuous feedback on progress for every engineer
• Collaborating with delivery teams and external stakeholders to communicate the “why” while establishing clarity and accountability on current and future work
• Planning, managing and allocating engineering resources based on quarterly OKRs
• Fostering an environment of technical excellence, and facilitating architectural discussions and decision making

So what kind of person are we looking for in this role? The person who will be successful in this role will be: 

• A good coach, who catalyses growth and development while empowering others and does not micromanage
• Result-oriented, pragmatic, a data-driven decision maker, with a people-centered and systems thinking approach to engineering management
• A good communicator, who listen and shares information effectively with contributors and stakeholders alike

Now that we’ve told you what the job looks like, here are the qualifications we're looking for in a candidate: 

• 5 years of contributions as a software engineer, with hands-on programming experience building SaaS products
• 2 years of hands-on engineering management experience in a startup environment, including team building and management
• A track record of improving teams performance with engineering methodologies, execution planning, tracking and data-based reporting

Bonus points if you have:

• 10 years of SaaS engineering experience, with 5 years of hands-on engineering management experience of distributed/remote teams of 8 or more developers
• Experience with OKR to drive clarity, empowerment, alignment and accountability
• Large scale, fault tolerant, high throughput systems design experience

So what can you expect after you apply? Your application will be personally reviewed by a member of the Beyond hiring team and if there is a match in your experience and the role, you will:

• Have a video conversation with someone on our Recruiting team. This is a high-level conversation about your experience and interest, but also an opportunity for you to learn more about us
• Interview with our VP of Engineering
• Interview with the rest of our engineering management team
• Meet our CTO/Cofounder