Engineering Manager, Remote

At Black Spectacles we're on the hunt for teammates who:

• Are passionate about architecture and making an ambitious impact on the architecture and design community.
• Love to work on small, remote teams
• Owns it- comfortable taking responsibility for your work
• Take calculated risks and encourage others to do the same
• Take a world-class approach to everything you do
• Makes it safe to share ideas
• Takes care of your people

If this sounds like you, we need to talk!

Black Spectacles is an ambitious group of 25 fully remote teammates with the goal of growing to 75 over the next two years to support our purpose of helping architects thrive in their careers, trying to achieve big things to support the architecture community.

At Black Spectacles, you'll benefit from working with a team who lives and celebrates our values every day, and you can be sure that you will regularly see and feel the impact of your work. As a fully remote company you'll benefit from working from home year round, and from quarterly company trips to keep you connected to your team.

Black Spectacles has been recognized by Great Place to Work and Built In as a great place to work, by the American Institute of Architects for the national impact we're having on the profession of architecture, and has been recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the country.

To keep that momentum going strong, we're on the hunt for an Engineering Manager to manage and scale our engineering team.

You will:

• Establish technical design and architecture for new and existing software products
• Hire, lead, and mentor an innovative team of software engineers, software architects and quality engineers - growing people as you grow our business and technology.
• Design, implement, and refine product development, testing, and Dev-Ops processes
• Review code and establish coding best practices
• Accurately estimate project timelines while maintaining a strong focus on quality of work
• Hands-on coding using web development technical stack - React JS, Redux, Node.js, GO, JavaScript, Typescript
• Collaborate with product, design and other functional teams to establish product development roadmap

Key outcomes of the job:

• Quality Code working to requirements
• Define engineering best practices and technical roadmap
• Ownership of software architecture, technical design, and code review (frontend, backend, and database)

Requirements

You might be a great fit if you:

• Have substantial demonstrated experience as a Technical Lead/Architect who can design software solutions, review code for frontend, backend and database stack
• Have experience mentoring junior engineers
• Significant demonstrated experience with web development toolkit: React JS, Redux, Node.js (Loopback 4, TypeORM), JavaScript, Typescript
• Have a willingness to ask questions and accept constructive criticism.
• Have AWS (working experience designing, developing solutions using cloud services)
• Have experience with SaaS applications and cloud deployments
• Have experience with automated build and deployment tools
• Have experience in Agile/Scrum methodology, and occasionally serving as Scrum Master
• Can travel to Chicago for quarterly team meetings

It's a nice bonus if you have:

• Mobile App development experience
• Experience in leading AI/ML solutions or implementations
• Software program or project management experience

Benefits

• Chicago based, fully remote remote role
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term / Long-term Disability and Life insurance
• Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• 401k with Employer match
• Employee referral program
• Team events & quarterly gatherings

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.