Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager @ Clay

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering team as Clay scales through rapid growth. You'll take ownership of the team's mission and objectives, ensuring the team delivers high-quality solutions on time to Clay's most pressing challenges. You'll foster an engaged, motivated, and collaborative team culture while supporting the growth and development of each team member. You'll work cross-functionally with product, design, support, and other engineering teams to help scale and improve our product. There'll be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.

What You'll Do

Defining team purpose and areas of ownership. You'll ensure goals are well understood and internalized. You'll also introduce principles and frameworks for your team to be able to make day-to-day prioritization decisions independently.

Planning, prioritization and staffing. You'll set and update the team roadmap (in collaboration with PMs). You'll also allocate team members to work determining who works on what and when.

Building and maintaining the team culture. You'll build and grow a team that works well together and is motivated. You'll support team members in achieving their career goals.

Hiring and onboarding top engineering talent. You'll actively recruit, interview, and onboard engineers, ensuring new hires ramp up quickly and contribute effectively.

Contributing to engineering wide initiatives. As an Engineering Manager, you'll contribute to and lead initiatives that enhance engineering excellence and scalability across the organization.

Owning the outcomes for your team. You'll introduce processes to get the important work done smoothly, and keep folks accountable. You'll interface with the rest of the organization on behalf of the team.

What You'll Bring

You have 2+ years of management experience and 6+ years of overall software development experience. You've managed and coached 3+ direct reports for growth and success in a fast paced environment. You have a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems with a strong focus on customer delight and user experience.

You are an empathetic communicator. You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements, you prioritize curiosity over confrontation, making sure everyone feels heard and understood.

You're familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is :

React, Typescript, Python, Node.js

AWS services : Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch

IaC : Terraform

Deployment tools : CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright

Observability tools : Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo

Life @ Clay

Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District. We love the energy of in-person collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.

Competitive salary and role trajectory : Roles, responsibilities, and comp grow as we do

Health insurance : Fully funded, high quality health, dental & vision coverage (including 80-100% therapy coverage)

Visa sponsorship : We get it - it's an arduous process, but we're not scared of it

Paid time off : We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fully-disconnected per year, with a flexible vacation policy beyond that

Free food : Free meals in office every day and unlimited snacks

Parental leave & fertility support : IVF fertility benefits, egg freezing, and 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn more about Clay and what it's like to work with us right here!