Frontend Engineering Manager

Underpin; Flushing (PA); À distance; USD 120 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental premiums

Unlimited vacation policy

Wellness program reimbursements

Résumé du poste

A tech recovery firm in the US is looking for a Frontend Engineering Manager to lead and empower a growing engineering team. Responsibilities include supporting career progression, fostering an inclusive environment, and driving project milestones. Candidates should have at least three years of experience in engineering leadership, a solid understanding of best practices, and a passion for team development. The role offers a remote-first work environment, comprehensive health benefits, and a generous vacation policy.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience leading engineering teams and individual contribution experience.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong understanding of technical decision-making.

Responsabilités

• Empower the team to creatively solve problems and grow their roles.
• Support your team through one-on-ones and goal-setting.
• Play an active role in the recruiting process.

Connaissances

Engineering best practices

Team leadership

Frontend Development

Diversity and inclusion

Emotional intelligence

Description du poste

About the job Frontend Engineering Manager

COVID Update- We are actively hiring for this position and have been operating as a fully distributed organization across the United States since FireHydrant started. We anticipate a future where we will be able to periodically gather as a company again, but we put the health and wellbeing of our employees (and their families) first.

About FireHydrant

FireHydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The FireHydrant platform includesIncident Response ,Status Pages ,Retrospectives ,andDeploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series A company with around 30 employees who sit across the United States and we’re growing.

About The Role

FireHydrant is looking for our second engineering manager to empower and grow a team of highly skilled engineers. Our growing engineering organization is split into three teams focused on quarterly goals. Within the department, we also have engineers who focus on their chosen practice between Frontend, Backend, Platform and SRE - which we value equally.

We are looking for another person to work alongside our Head of Engineering who can help guide part of the team and ensure they are getting the time and support they deserve. Our new Engineering Manager will focus on people management across the engineering team, helping us to achieve our quarterly goals.

What You’ll Do

• Empower the team to creatively solve problems and grow their roles.
• Support your team through one-on-ones, setting goals, and facilitating conversations to ensure career progression, well-being, and performance.
• Foster a healthy, thriving and inclusive environment and speak up when you see injustices.
• Understand the team. You care about people and think they are the most exciting part of the job.
• Unblock your reports to allow them to do what they love, ship code!
• Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones and deliverables.
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us to grow and scale

What You’ll Bring

• A strong understanding of engineering best practices and navigating technical decision making (trade offs, business impact, etc).
• At least 3 years experience leading engineering teams (plus experience as an individual contributor, ideally working with Frontend Development
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup
• Passion for working with, teaching, and learning from a diverse group of people
• Emotional intelligence and understanding that people are more important than technology

Life at FireHydrant

• We’re remote-first with engineers around the US, our headquarters is in NYC (Union Square)
• We collaborate through Slack, Zoom, GitHub pull requests, Notion, and Clubhouse
• We believe in a healthy work-life balance; we’re early stage but work reasonable hours and encourage you and your team to enjoy both your vacation time and your time at work
• 100% employer-paid health, vision and dental premiums for the employee and 75% of dependents
• Unlimited vacation policy with a minimum requirement of three weeks off per-year
• Wellness program: reimbursements for your gym membership, athletic equipment, nutrition plans, etc
• A stipend to outfit your home office beyond the laptop/monitor