Manager, Engineering (Central or Eastern Time Zones)

Workrise is hiring for an Manager, Engineering for our Workplace initiative to help us to continue to build the next evolution of our platform in a scalable, service oriented architecture. This role will be exempt and will report to the Senior Director of Engineering.

We are organized into agile, cross-functional product teams focused on business domains that consist of engineering, product, design, and analytics allowing us to develop deep expertise and rapidly deliver high-value features and functionality.

Our main tech stack includes: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes & Docker, React.js, Typescript, Material-UI, Graph QL, Neo4j, Node.js, NestJS, MongoDb, PostgreS, Kotlin, and Kafka.

• Managing a team of 6-8 engineers composed of full-time engineers based in Austin, and contract engineers based in Uruguay.
• Working with Product Managers, Designers, and Technical Program Managers on various projects to refine, prioritize, and deliver customer value
• Establishing and maintaining an efficient team delivery process that delivers product roadmap features while balancing technical infrastructure investments.
• Building relationships and working with stakeholders including customers, product managers, engineering managers, cross-functional partners, and external partners.
• Contributing to strategic direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
• Representing and being accountable for the technical output of the team, either through personal experience or strong communication lines with senior engineers.
• Coaching and developing engineers through setting performance expectations, career planning, performance reviews, coaching low performers, compensation reviews, promotions, and terminations.
• Participating in recruiting both to fill positions on your team, and also assisting in filling opening engineering headcount across Workrise.
• Team's Focus: Building and maintaining Node based microservices running on Google Kubernetes Engine that facilitate transactions executed through our platform

• 6+ years of relevant software development experience
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of 4-8 engineers that has built, deployed and maintained production grade web applications
• Familiarity with cloud computing providers, order of preference: GCP, AWS, Azure
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for production services
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, order of preference: Kanban, Scrum, XP
• Strong communication skills with the ability to actively build relationships with stakeholders within and outside of the organization
• BS degree or equivalent practical experience

Additional experience preferred, but not required:

• Experience with remote collaboration with teams in different time zones

• You are a motivated and self-directed engineering manager who wants to deliver real business value
• You seek to understand the purpose of your project and how it fits into the larger view, and actively share and promote that with your team.
• You can lead and function effectively in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
• You see mistakes as learning opportunities, not just for you but for your team as well.

• Regular, on-time attendance
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to use and manipulate office equipment such as a computer, copier and telephone
• Ability to use office computer programs such as e-mail, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Constantly remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods