Engineering Manager

YOUR ROLE & MISSION

As an Engineering Manager you will have the critical leadership role of enabling excellence productivity and growth within Apollo's engineering organization. You crave the opportunity for hands-on mentorship and to accelerate not only your career but for those of your team as well. Your responsibility would come in several forms including but not limited to:

• Help the team define set and adhere to goals and expectations

• Drive a culture around excellence learning and fun

• Critically observe and improve development and management processes within Apollo engineering

• Work closely with key stakeholders such as the CTO Product Managers and Designers to deliver high quality software at a rapid pace for an ever-increasing user base

• Change and be a part of key decision-making processes within the engineering organization

Daily Adventures and Responsibilities

• Participation in key technical decision-making discussions such as sprint planning software design and occasionally code reviews

• Help build and scale a world-class engineering team by sourcing and hiring candidates

• Hold systematic weekly 1:1 touch points with engineers to deliver and receive quality feedback

• Work with engineers to develop and execute on personalized goals

• Conduct objective and helpful quarterly performance reviews for engineers

Competencies

• You love scaling up through well-written documents and well-defined processes. As a remote first company documentation is critical to our hyper-growth and success

• You are compassionate put people first as a mentor and are tactful with both accepting and delivering criticism to others

• You have the leadership skills to think and execute strategically but are not afraid to get your hands dirty when needed

• Your technical understanding of engineering systems especially related to data is second to none

• You can relate to and admire Apollo’s values of Ownership Integrity Curiosity Excellence Teamwork and Fun

Skills and Relevant Experiences

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering industry experience. You will be leading a team of multiple senior and staff level engineers so you need to be technically very strong

• 3-5 years' experience in people management preferably leading senior engineers and managers

• Proven track record of technical leadership. Strong fundamentals in software architecture at scale effective engineering processes and cross-team function

• Experience with Ruby and Python

• Understanding of data privacy and security fundamentals

Our Tech Stack

Our tech stack is React/Redux/NextJS on the front end Ruby/Python/MongoDB/Elasticsearch/Redis on the backend and Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform for infrastructure.