Founding Engineering Manager
This is a full-time role to be a Founding Engineering Manager, located onsite in New York, NY.
About You
You're hard working, ambitious and you prefer to "lead from the front". As a leader on the team, folks will be looking to you as an example of success and you value being a role model and force multiplier for others on the team.
You're looking for a fast growing startup. Here's our revenue growth and head count growth.
You're looking for teammates, not coworkers - folks you'll be able to count on to in a pinch to make your team's goals possible. Here's a bonus picture of our CTO's son closing his first sale.
About The Role
You will work directly with the founding team to design and build the future of the financial system from the ground floor. We pride ourselves on our "hands off culture" by having very few meetings and giving engineers and creators a broad scope of responsibility and autonomy. You'll be working in-person 5 days / week in our lower-manhattan NYC office, building side-by-side with the rest of the team.
As the first manager to joining Hadrius, you'll be defining what effective management looks like - not just for engineering, but across the entire company. In this role, you'll be effectively running the engineer organization :
- Sales, CS, Account Managers and product will all look to you to make their goals possible
- New engineers on the team will rely on you to ramp them up and get them up to speed
- All engineers will rely on you to champion their accomplishments and the impact of their work
- The founding team will count on you to retain, grow and lead the engineer team to build an excellent product
Responsibilities
First week :
Day 1 : push your first PR to productionUnderstand the core problems Hadrius solves, our ICP, our value proposition, the Hadrius platform, pricing structure, and roadmapLearn the Hadrius way : how we work and build for high growthGet up to speed on the codebase, our architecture, product roadmap and biggest challengesContribute to product discussions in weekly all handsFirst month :
Implement a feature that directly leads to new revenue for the businessHelping others through code-review and technical design reviewsHave a good sense of each engineers strengths and where they want to growYou're running a handful of technical interviewsStakeholders outside engineering are coming to you with their needsFirst 3 months & beyond :
Large part of the engineering team is directly reporting to youYou're training and hiring new team members as you scale your impact across the teamStakeholders outside engineers are rely on you to meet their goalsQualifications
6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer1+ years of recent experience as a managerOrganized and clear communicator with a penchant for solving problemsBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related fieldNice To Haves
Previous experience in a startup scale-up environmentExperience working with mature React and Python codebases in productionBenefits
401k (100% match up to 6%)Healthcare, dental, vision, etc.Housing stipend if you live in FiDi