Engineering Manager, Edge

Location: North, Central, and South America

Hi there!

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Edge team at Zapier. We’re on a mission to make everyone more productive at work. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation.

The Edge team at Zapier operates at the crux of innovation and automation, making this role uniquely exciting. With millions of Zapier users relying on our platform, the work you do every day will directly impact the productivity of businesses and individuals worldwide, giving you a chance to influence how millions of users automate their routines.

Your role will be an exciting blend of strategy, leadership, and technical prowess. You'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our business and millions of users worldwide. As Edge team’s Engineering Manager, you'll have a range of key responsibilities to tackle:

• Construct and monitor: Your team will build and run our vital business services, affectionately known as 'Zaps'. Your drive for engineering excellence and scalability will ensure that these services perform optimally, powering millions of users across the globe.
• Execute and Authenticate: Your technical skills and strategic judgment will be instrumental to our operations. Your team will be responsible for executing and authenticating actions within our system, ensuring our users enjoy a seamless experience.
• Enable and Empower: Your and your team’s work will be crucial to the continued evolution of Zapier's product, tool, and service portfolio. Collaborating with other team leaders, you'll align technological advancements with broader company objectives.
• Own and Evolve: Your team’s contribution will be both meaningful and valued. You'll take ownership of business metrics and work diligently towards their development. These metrics assist our entire organization in assessing performance and steering future strategy.

If you’re interested in advancing your leadership career at a fast-growing, profitable, impact-driven company, then read on…

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About You

• You are an effective team builder. This isn't your first rodeo. You have at least two years of experience managing teams of Backend Engineers. You know how to hire, train, and develop engineers from all backgrounds. You understand the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive engineering team. You may not have hired or managed hundreds of people before, but you have hired, trained, and managed at least a few engineers before.
• You’re a product thinker. As an Engineering Manager, you’ve worked to set goals, metrics, and a strategy for a product-focused Engineering team. You push your team to prioritize impactful work to meet the company’s goals.You can keep track of, prioritize, and lead multiple projects. We're a small team, and there's no shortage of things you could be doing in a day. You'll carve out time for functional projects and make sure they solve real problems the team faces -- ideally making development even easier.
• You have excellent communication skills. You regularly work with engineers and other stakeholders from various disciplines, balancing engineering concerns, such as technical debt, with product concerns. Ideally, you find solutions that address both the team and user needs but if not, help build understanding around difficult decisions.
• You are a skilled engineering leader. You've got a strong background in leading a team of Engineers working in our stack (Python, Django or React, ES6 or Node.js, etc.).  Even if you aren't a daily coder, you regularly exercise your coding muscles and try to be an asset on any technical context your team may need.
• You're adaptable. You've been in fast growing companies and know how to build, change, and adapt to the needs of a company as it grows.

 

Things You'll Do

• Work closely with your engineering function and peer design function and product function to create a trio that tackles user problems and solutions.
• Develop effective ways to communicate, monitor, and lead your team through weekly one-on-one’s and team meetings.
• Keep the leadership team i