Engineering Manager

What you’ll do

• Provide stewardship over the codebases you're responsible for, striving for flexibility and agility in the face of expanding and changing business requirements

• Run the SDLC for your team, efficiently and effectively delivering great software sprint by sprint

• Continuously improve the processes and practices of your engineering team, ensuring they're doing their best work

• Partner with Product Owners to provide market and business context to your teams, maintaining a collaborative environment for product design and evolution

• Mentor and coach the engineers on your team to expand their skills and advance in their careers

• Play a leadership role in defining and evolving how Engineering works at Caribou

This role is remote from a state where Caribou operates, with a preference for the Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, or Phoenix AZ areas and can work from our Denver or Chandler offices if desired.*

Interview Roadmap:

• Recruiter phone interview (30 mins)

• At-home Ruby coding assessment (60 mins)

• Hiring Manager video interview (60 mins)

• Final interview loop (combined 4 hrs scheduled across 1-4 business days):

  • System Design Interview (60 mins)

  • Leadership & Support (60 mins)

  • Partnership & Delivery (60 mins)

  • Team Development & Performance Manager (60 mins)

What we look for

• Prior work leading engineers maintaining and improving web applications and back-end integrations in a Ruby on Rails codebase

• Customer-focused leaders with an understanding of and passion for well-crafted software

• Driven, life-long learners committed to expanding their skills in both leadership and engineering

• Full-stack understanding of production software systems from hosts and HTML, to containers and caches, to databases and DNS, to runtimes and REST

• Collaborative, people-first leaders who lead with context over command and control

• Leaders with a commitment to bringing out the best in those around them as a measure of their success

How we will take care of you

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Competitive compensation: $170-210k

• Equity options

• 401k savings program

• Generous paid time off including: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents.

• Robust wellness benefits including company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability and basic life insurance.

• Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance.

• Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses.