Engineering Manager

What's Clyde - With the Ownership Enrichment Platform, Clyde helps brands take control and take care of the post-purchase journey for their customers. We’ve reimagined product protection, registration, and issue resolution so manufacturers and eCommerce brands can create beautiful, profitable, unified ownership experiences for their customers — and unlock the LTV of their dreams. Over 300 brands like Hydrow, Marshall, SharkNinja, Lull, Tempo, Newell Brands, and Barnes & Noble use Clyde to build deeper relationships with their customers. To learn more about Clyde, visit www.joinclyde.com

As the Engineering Manager, the teams will look to you to…

• Encourage and model healthy team dynamics and psychological safety
• Support multiple teams without micromanaging the completion of work
• Empower teams to truly own their scope of the application, from discovery to research to implementation
• Cultivate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring that Product, Design, and Engineering are best leveraging each others strengths across the organization
• Anticipate projects that may require impactful technical decisions and coordinate discussion, understanding, and consensus on an approach
• Have a high-level understanding of work undertaken by Engineering and can represent it at a departmental level
• Balance the distribution of product scope amongst teams, being mindful of team capacity, capability, and knowledge sharing
• Cultivate a culture of quality on the team, ensuring that engineers check their own work and that code reviews are of a high standard
• Ensure teams understand their customers, considering accessibility, performance, responsive design, and usability as they create

And you’ll do it with a team, so…

• Be supportive of those around you
• Be open to help from others
• Be able to write clearly: in code, documentation, and Slack conversations
• Advise Team Leads on what healthy stand ups, retros, and other lightweight versions of agile practices look like
• Collaborate with your peers: an incredible Architect and the Sr Director of Product
• Be comfortable saying “I don’t know” so that others are equally comfortable with learning something new

While your role is “hands off”, the web is our platform, so we appreciate a history of…

• Semantic markup and the CSS that makes it a joy to experience
• Javascript expertise
• React ecosystem skills
• Cross-browser support: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
• Responsive Design – devices come in all shapes and sizes
• Accessibility and Inclusive Design – equal access for everyone
• Healthy API creation and optimization

Our web apps are backed by healthy platforms…

• Node.js + Koa, but experience with other node-adjacent frameworks is also cool
• PostgreSQL, but other SQL-like DB work is transferable
• Elasticsearch. Have a better way to do spin up search indexes? We’d love to hear it
• Redis. Because it’s fast
• Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, SFCC. We integrate with them and others
• Kubernetes, Docker, AWS. DevOps skills are appreciated

• know” so that you and your crew can learn something new together

Three reasons you should apply to Clyde Engineering

• The People: A kind, brilliant crew. Support your teams as both engineers and as people. Help them build their skills, ship products with pride, and work thoughtfully with others.
• The Product: We build design-detailed, best-in-class experiences. Clyde has discovered something good in ecommerce, with more to come. We raised $41M in our series B. It’s a good time to jump in and help us build a company we’ll be proud of.
• Our Character: Humility. Thoughtfulness. Support. Healthy hours. Remote first. A clear career ladder. Personal and professional growth. And the pride of shipping delightful code with nice people while learning and growing every day. Also, we’ll pay you.

Requirements

• US-based, fully remote with co-working spaces in 18 cities
• US Citizen/Greencard required

This position reports to Clyde's CTO.

Benefits

Who are we?

Clyde is a distributed community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate individual differences and recognize that unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and more successful. We seek applicants who bring a variety of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds, and together create wonderful product experiences that help brands sweep customers off their feet. Clyde provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law - we do our best work when we create space for different voices and perspectives. Whatever unique experiences or skill sets you bring, we look forward to learning from each other. We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of the employment process. Please contact us at [email protected], and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information, which we will respond to in a timely manner.If you’re looking for an opportunity to put your heart into your work at a company that values growth, learning, wellness, and success – we’d love to meet you!

Why should you join us?

Clyde is building an incredibly thoughtful suite of products with enormous potential. We are a highly resourceful, motivated, and collaborative team, and we value diversity of all kinds. We hold ourselves to the highest standards. Clyde does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

All members of our team will have ample opportunities for professional growth, plus, we offer competitive salaries and equity packages, health insurance, unlimited time off with a mandatory 10 days, a vacation fund, and a creative culture. We are building a really exciting company and can’t wait for you to join us.

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy: Please note that, at this time, to be in-person at a Clyde office or Clyde-sponsored event, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If you believe that a legal exception may apply to you, please still apply for any role(s) you are interested in and, if you are hired, you will receive instructions on how to request a reasonable accommodation after your start date.