Engineering Manager, EU

Engineering Manager, EU at Ashby

Overview

Hi ? I’m Colin, Director of Engineering, Europe. I’m looking for an engineering manager to help us build a different type of engineering team and culture at Ashby.

We want a leader who focuses on building your team, developing their skills, and creating an environment that empowers them to do their best work consistently, with little distraction.

We have an experienced, talented, and collaborative team of 25+ engineers. You’ll help me manage the growing team of engineers in Europe.

Responsibilities

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
• Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects, and deliver them with little intervention. They still ask for help when needed – the difference is that they’re driving.
• Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills
  -
  - date.
• Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep
  -
  - date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business.

Qualifications & Expectations

• You love being technical and can hold
  - depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend.
• You enjoy management problems. We want people who get excited about driving people to be their best, giving difficult feedback, and building systems that make this easier.
• You hold your team to a high standard and don’t shy away from getting into the details and giving feedback, even to the best folks on your team.
• You are an excellent and empathetic communicator.
• You know what exceptional engineers look like and have thought deeply about recruiting and growing them.
• You’re good at thinking about product, business, and maybe even design, but you’re not interested in calling the shots and are more interested in building a team that can make the best decisions without you.
• You thrive in
  - trust,
  - autonomy environments. We’re a young startup where leaders wear multiple hats, and you’ll build your own
  - speed on‑ramp through developing strong feedback loops.

When You Shouldn’t Apply

• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay
  -
  - date on technology.
• You’ve gotten into management because it was the only growth path available.
• You want to make all the product decisions instead of empowering your team to make those calls.
• You’re happy with a team of engineers that are predominantly
  - career,
  - career, or don’t thrive with ownership or autonomy.
• A staff or principal engineer to you is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.
• You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently than the status‑quo.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

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