Engineering Manager - Americas
Ashby · Remote · Remote - US · Austin · Boulder · Los Angeles · Portland · Atlanta · Salt Lake City · Boston · Seattle · New York · San Francisco · Denver · Ann Arbor · Chicago · Raleigh ·
COMPENSATION
$220k – $275k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (Americas)
- Manage 3-5 engineers
- Hands-on leadership
- TypeScript + React
- Low meeting culture
You will manage three to five engineers across specializations like Product, SRE, and Design Engineering. Your focus is on grassroots leadership, hiring new talent, and coaching individual contributors to deliver large, loosely defined projects with minimal intervention.
Beyond team management, you will propose and lead company-wide initiatives such as improving pull request reviews, refining interview processes, or enhancing demo data generation. You are expected to remain hands-on, debugging issues and shipping small fixes to keep your technical skills sharp.
What you'll do
- Hire and manage three to five engineers across various specializations
- Coach engineers to deliver large projects with little intervention
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs to improve quality
- Debug customer issues and ship small bug fixes to stay technical
- Lead department-wide initiatives like improving PR reviews or interviews
- Conduct 30, 60, 90-day and 6-month reviews with your manager
What you'll need
- Former engineer who loves coding and stays up-to-date with technology
- Experience building teams of exceptional engineers
- Ambition and courage to change processes within teams or departments
- Comfortable managing engineers with high ownership and autonomy
- Belief that staff engineers lead by example rather than just project management
- Optimistic about building a large engineering team without standard processes
Stack
- TypeScript
- React
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- Postgres
- Redis
How you'll work
- Fully remote for candidates in the Americas
- Keep your own hours with flexible daily structure
- Less than two hours of meetings per week on average
- In-person meetups twice a year (department and company)
- Budget for local meetups with colleagues in your region
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity with 10-year exercise window
- Unlimited PTO with encouragement to take at least 30 days
- Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture
- $100 monthly education budget plus conference coverage
- $250 monthly tool budget plus generous AI token budgets
- 100% covered health insurance for employees and dependents
Hiring process
- Optional 30-minute recruiter screen
- 30-minute introduction call with Ben
- 1-hour technical screen pairing in the actual codebase
- 1-hour leadership experience interview with Ben
- 45-minute interview with Abhik, VP of Engineering
- 30-minute interview with Colin, Head of Engineering EMEA
- 90-minute final round with Engineers and other Managers
- Reference checks near the end of the process