Software Engineering Manager

Alloy Automation (YC W20) is more than just a tech startup - we’re building the integration infrastructure that everyone from fast growing startups to Fortune 500’s rely on to launch and manage their integrations – at scale. Our engineering team delivers a best in class, incredible experience for our customers who range from global brands like Burberry giant retailers including Amazon and Best Buy. At Alloy, you’ll do the best work of your life and have a massive impact. Tens of thousands of people rely on us for their day to day operations – you’ll have a key role in shaping that experience.

We’re looking for a talented engineering manager to join our “Alloy Core” squad – that is, the group of folks at Alloy responsible for building core product features like our Integration Builder, Installation Manager, etc. As a manager, you’ll have significant input and sway on the direction of our product. You’ll inherit an existing engineering team and work to grow out your team as we scale. Your time will be spent leveling up your team, providing strategic guidance for both your team and the broader engineering org on technologies to use, acting as a key partner on engineering leadership, performing code reviews, and constantly raising the bar higher across the org.

What would you be doing?

• Help build the best possible product that is performant, reliable, scalable and beautiful, working on diverse projects and collaborating with engineering teams across four countries (and growing)
• Leading a team of frontend, backend, and full stack engineers. Your team will look to you for direction and guidance.
• You’ll be responsible for ensuring your team hits OKRs and for providing high level direction on technologies, frameworks, etc
• Solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to our customers and app users which span across other engineers and product managers
• Collaborate closely with our product, QA, and revenue organizations to roll out features efficiently and in a timely manner across the entire release cycle
• Learning new things and challenging yourself to architect and implement features for our iPaaS and automation products, workflow orchestration and analytics engine
• Build, debug and manage queues, schedule jobs, map data across different APIs, handle errors, and help solve large scale infrastructure and engineering challenges for some of our most strategic accounts at scale
• Create infrastructure and internal tooling to handle extremely high transaction volume (millions of executions per minute)
• Teach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help you grow
• Participate in regular code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge across all of Alloy.
• Foster a deep rooted documentation culture across your team.
• Provide mentoring and feedback to your team on a regular basis

What are we looking for?

• Over 10 years of relevant software engineering experience, and building web applications at scale with Node, React, Typescript, JavaScript, AWS, MongoDB, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Proven track record as a technical and people leader, with experience growing and building engineering teams
• Strong opinions and willingness to voice them
• Proven understanding of cloud infrastructure in a production environment
• Have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions; proficient in debugging and troubleshooting techniques to diagnose and resolve issues in production systems
• Strong interpersonal skills and clear communication abilities. You should be comfortable and willing to give feedback to your teammates to help them level up
• Proficient in back-end development concepts, including server-side architecture, design and architectural pattern and best practices in software development, APIs, databases, and authentication/authorization mechanisms
• Experience running production systems including deploying, monitoring, and debugging; optimizing code, enhancing performance, and improving system scalability and reliability
• Understand the importance of security in software development and knowledgeable about common security vulnerabilities and best practices to mitigate them