Engineering Manager

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed.  We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more. 

Over 80,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at GlossGenius, you are responsible for growing, managing, and mentoring a team of engineers within our product engineering organization. As an engineering leader, you will collaborate closely with both engineering and product leaders and own the technical strategy and roadmap of your team.

We’ve built a great product that empowers tens of thousands of solopreneurs and business owners to run and grow their businesses efficiently - customers love our product (4.7+ stars in the App Store!). 

You can work remotely from anywhere in Canada. 

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for managing and growing a team of product engineers
• Collaborate closely with product managers and other cross-functional teams to establish the long term technical and product vision and the smaller steps needed to get there
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure alignment across your squad and other cross-functional business teams to execute on key initiates and drive business impact
• Implement new and effective engineering processes that emphasize quality and progress on key product initiatives
• Partner with recruiting to build a high performing engineering team

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years of experience as a people manager
• Proven ability to collaborate with product/program managers, designers, and peers to build plans, set expectations, and successfully deliver new 0 to 1 products and features
• A strong business acumen and customer-centric mindset, backed by data analytics skills.
• Solid technical foundations: while this is not a hands-on coding role, you should still show sound foundational system design knowledge and be able to guide a team through a technical discussion
• Ability to recruit and build high-performing teams 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in relevant field

Benefits & Perks 

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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