Engineering Manager

About Resilia

Resilia is a fast-growing, venture-backed, mission-driven SaaS startup powering a digital transformation in the nonprofit sector. Our mission is to strengthen nonprofit capacity and help grantors scale impact through data-driven technology solutions. Resilia's three SaaS-based products help nonprofits achieve tax-exempt status, and build capacity in pursuit of becoming high performing organizations while enabling corporations and foundations to support nonprofits beyond grant awards. As a company, Resilia was named 2022 Best Tech Startup in New Orleans, Rising Star on the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100 list, VentureBeat's Companies to Watch list and Sevetri Wilson, Resilia's Founder and CEO, has been recognized in Inc Magazine's 100 Women Building America's Most Innovative Companies and Pitchbook's top Black Tech Leaders list. The company recently closed a historic Series B raise: the $35 million round will fuel growth and impact for the company's 15,000+ nonprofit users, and marks the largest single VC raise ever by a solo Black female-founded tech company. For more information visit resilia.com.

We are open to fully remote candidates who are available for an Eastern Time Zone schedule. This role may require occasional travel, including to Resilia's New York and New Orleans offices. #LI-REMOTE

About the Role

As a pivotal member of Resilia's Engineering leadership, the Engineering Manager will provide valuable career guidance and mentorship to our growing engineering team and manage the delivery of high impact product feature launches on our platform all while leveraging our cutting-edge tech stack.

Cross-team collaboration is the backbone of our success at Resilia. The Engineering Manager will work closely with the Product and Design teams to understand the short and long term Product strategy and use that to inform capacity planning, future hiring needs and improvements to processes, practices and architecture. You would bring a collaborative approach to problem solving, providing high level coaching and guidance to the Engineering team on complex technical challenges. Your empathetic approach in team management will focus on individual growth while facilitating alignment with team and company goals.

The ideal candidate has experience managing a team of engineers and collaborating with direct reports to build and formalize career paths and set them up for success. You are comfortable leading technology discussions and use your experience with a variety of tools and technologies to steer the team in the direction which provides the maximum impact to our product and our users. You are able to elevate discussions around new architectures, infrastructure and tech debt at the appropriate time and have effective discussions with the Product team around prioritizing those areas as part of the product roadmap. You can navigate difficult conversations and resolve conflicts - fostering a culture of open and honest conversations.

This role has a direct impact on our nonprofit users, enabling them to utilize the true power of Resilia's platform in a seamless manner and at the same time, playing a key role in helping nonprofits strengthen their operations, scale their impact, and communicate their work to their supporters and communities.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will be an early and crucial contributor to Resilia's growing Engineering team.

Tech Stack

We do not hire for expertise in any specific technology, but rather for an ability and curiosity to learn and for those who keep up to speed with the latest practices and patterns that bring a competitive advantage.

With that in mind, our current application stack consists of: Typescript node, GraphQL APIs, Typescript ReactJS single-page web applications, and design components based off of Material UI and optimized for accessibility. We leverage several cloud based platforms that power core features of our platform and our user experience (Stripe, Auth0, Mailgun, Contentful, etc). Our infrastructure is on Heroku and we practice continuous testing and deployment, often deploying several times a day.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing an engineering team of 3-4 engineers
• Experience in hiring, onboarding and coaching engineers
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in multiple languages, backend and frontend frameworks
• Advanced API design and implementation skills
• Advanced database design and migrations skills
• Experience in utilizing goal setting frameworks like OKRs to help align team and individual goals to company goals preferred
• Infrastructure, security, and SRE experience or exposure a plus

About You

• Product and customer-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Well-developed communication skills, ability to explain complex problems, and to share and visualize findings with stakeholders in product, marketing, revenue operations, and senior leadership teams
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, flexible, and comfortable with ambiguity and managing priorities
• Passion, humility, humor, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven and self-directed
• Committed to supporting a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment

Compensation & Benefits

Why Resilia? Resilia powers the people changing the world.

Resilia is an inclusive and welcoming workplace where our team thrives on collaboration, creativity, innovation, and fun. We are proud to offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and excellent benefits including unlimited PTO, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, a 401k program, mental health support, a healthcare advocate, short-term disability, and commuter benefits, with potential for an equity stake in a fast-growing company.

Resilia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.