Engineering Manager

Personio; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OLIO seeks an Engineering Manager to develop people, drive technical decisions, and scale the OLIO app and volunteer portal. You will report to the CTO and join the engineering leadership, focusing on product development for the app and systems that govern the Food Waste Heroes Programme, as well as internationalization and rapid market entry.

Over the next 2.5 years, OLIO plans to grow to 150+ engineers, expand revenue and user base, and scale presence across international markets while

Qualifications

• Experience hiring and leading a team of 7 FTEs.
• Accountability for technical delivery and product quality.
• Defining technology investments to improve mobile app performance and reduce debt.
• Overseeing the team’s health and engagement, fostering inclusive learning.
• Collaborating with engineering leaders to set best practices and standards.

Responsibilities

• Hire and mentor a 7-person team and onboard effectively.
• Own technical delivery and ensure product quality in collaboration with Product and senior developers.
• Define, prioritize and execute technology investments to improve app performance and reduce debt.
• Allocate people to technology investments and business projects while maintaining health and engagement.
• Foster an engineering culture of excellence and career development through feedback and coaching.

Skills

Team leadership

Hiring

Technical delivery

Product management liaison

Architectural review

Engineering leadership

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React Native

AWS

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

OLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and our mission is to solve the problem of foodwaste in the home & local community, at scale. We do this by connecting anyone with spare food – which can behouseholds or food businesses – with neighbours living nearby who would like it. Globally, over one third of all thefood we produce gets thrown away, which is worth over $1 trillion; and in a country like the UK half of all food wastetakes place in the home. OLIO solves this problem with our award-winning mobile & web app.Over the past 7 years OLIO has grown from a local initiative in North London to a global movement. We now haveover 6 million users who have given away 52 million portions of food, in 62 countries. OLIOers have also given away 3million household items in our non-food section.Underpinning OLIO’s incredible growth has been our volunteer programme, with over 75,000 people reaching outtospread the word about OLIO in their local community. We also work with over 4,500 business locations across the UKvia our Food Waste Heroes Programme to enable them to have zero food waste locations.We have a bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030, given that reducing food waste has been identified byProject Drawdown as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.Our work has been widely recognized, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” forthe world, and by Vivatech who awarded OLIO "Next European Unicorn".https://olioex.com/about/our-impact/

Why us?

To help take OLIO to our next level in growth and impact, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to developpeople, drive the technical decisions and help develop our OLIO application. The person in the role will hire peoplefor the team and ensure are growing sustainably, keeping them productive and engaged. The Engineering Managerwill report to the CTO and be part of the engineering leadership team.The next stage of OLIO’s journey will be focused on product development for both the OLIO app and the systems thatgovern our Food Waste Heroes Programme. Also, internationalization and we will also need to be ready toscale/enter new markets faster than planned.Over the next 2.5 years at OLIO, we will be growing our

• Team to 150+ amazing people
• Revenue from £2.5m ARR to £20m+ ARR
• Community from 5 million members to 25+ million, and 5+ million listings per month
• Presence in a small handful of markets to a dozen international markets

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Hiring and leading a team of 7 FTEs. This requires focus on processes for onboarding and mentoring
• Taking accountability for technical delivery of the team and product quality, working closely with the ProductManager and the senior developers
• Defining, prioritizing and executing the technology investments required to improve the performance of themobile application and reduction of technical debt
• Defining people allocation for technology investments, operational tasks and business projects.
• Overseeing the team’s overall health and engagement, fostering an inclusive environment for continuouslearning and growth
• Fostering a culture of engineering excellence, setting high operational excellence standards
• Fostering a high performance culture, supporting career development for team members through feedback,coaching and performance management
• Overseeing the technical direction of the team, reviewing architectural changes and technical improvements,working closely with the technical leader
• Collaborating with other engineering leaders to sustain high standards and define best practices for theoverall technology team
• Contributing to hiring for the overall tech team

OLIO’s tech stack is:

• React-Native for the mobile app, and web consumer applications
• Ruby-On-Rails core application framework
• Ruby-On-Rails/React volunteer portal
• Hosted on AWS utilising RDS Aurora, Elasticache, S3, CloudFront, ECR, Fargate, Lambdafunctions,Cloudwatch,
• Docker

This is an incredibly exciting time to join OLIO and help us unlock our full potential! OLIO is a remote-firstcompany with a strong culture, and was listed as the 4th best place to work by Escape The City 2022.We live for our mission and have fun along the way!