Who We Are
We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance.
We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business.
If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.
The Role
ZenBusiness is seeking a hands-on, experienced Engineering Manager who is a self-starter who can take ownership of key pieces of Business Essentials product line functionality. You will run a team of talented engineers responsible for building and maintaining products that help entrepreneurs start and run their businesses every day!
In this role, you will work closely with management, engineers, product owners, and designers to build and deliver new product features and enhancements that change the lives of our small business customers. You will manage, and participate in the day-to-day operations of a worldwide team of highly skilled software engineers and contractors as well as developing software components yourself.
This position will report to our VP of Engineering and is a fully remote role.
Responsibilities
- As a technical leader, you will be responsible for maintaining and raising engineering and operational excellence by mentoring, coaching, working side by side, and reviewing the work of your team.
- You will work closely with management, customers, design, product management, data teams, and customer support to maintain and enhance existing products as well as to develop new products in an agile environment.
- You will be responsible for leading teams through rapidly evolving complex demands, including multiple projects with dependencies on other internal organizations.
- Work in an agile, data-driven environment and have true ownership of the features your teams are accountable for, from gathering requirements to delivering results to maintenance.
- Hands-on technical leader with experience designing and developing consumer-facing web applications and APIs using cutting-edge technologies, acting as a mentor for the engineering team, and providing guidance and support to less experienced developers.
- Integrate and leverage 3rd party software and APIs as well as manage customer data across these platforms.
- Create a culture of high-quality, predictable, observable code that is delivered to production.
- Act as a leader of high-growth talent, committed to fostering a culture of coaching, leading by example, and empowerment amidst a lean-startup (agile) development environment, where we learn by doing with trust in our people and science to discover the optimal path to business success.
- Recruit and retain top talent.
- Create a fun virtual environment for the team - team events, morale building, team building, and bonding activities.
Qualifications
- At least 2 years of leading high-performance technology teams.
- At least 5 years of relevant software development experience.
- Experience in leading teams in shipping web-based products, in partnership with product owners and designers.
- Experience working with any of the technologies in our stack.
- Extensive experience in operations, API development, and modern service-oriented architecture.
- Demonstrable passion for excellent products and dazzling customer experiences, and proven track record for delivery of innovation & industry-leading products.
- Demonstrate a bias for coaching up a strong succession of talent.
- Excited about working with product owners to create an amazing user experience.
- Ability to work independently, and focus on the right problem at the right time.
- Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in a dynamic and disruptive environment.
- Curious and comfortable learning new things and diving in where needed.
- Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate your decisions, whiteboard new solutions, present ideas concisely, and defend your ideas.
Our Tech Stack
- Python & Django
- PostgreSQL
- Google Cloud Platform & Kubernetes
- Go
- JavaScript (ES 6+)
- React 16.8+ / Redux / Apollo GraphQL
- Node.js 12+ / Express / Fastify
Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact.
Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more!
Benefits. The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.
Please check out our careers' page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.
*applicable to in-office employees
Top Skills
What We Do
ZenBusiness gives customers the power and support to scale their business. ZenBusiness has helped over 300,000 businesses get up and running by providing the tools and resources needed for success.
ZenBusiness is a trusted partner that gives entrepreneurs the power and support to scale their business. We use technology and automation to provide fast and low-cost services, expert support, and a personalized dashboard that puts everything entrepreneurs need at their fingertips.
Zenbusiness is the only business formation partner in the Small Business Digital Alliance initiative ("SBDA"), a national initiative of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) alongside such companies as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. While continuing our efforts to support new entrepreneurs on their journey to grow an LLC in 2022, ZenBusiness offers a $5K Grant Program. This allows small business owners to fund their business and passion.
Becoming an entrepreneur is stressful and intimidating, especially for underserved communities. ZenBusiness is dedicated to supporting such businesses by partnering with nonprofits and organizations with a passion for change. This includes work with the Lemonade Day, Latinitas, Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce, Inmates to Entrepreneurs, Kiva, Synergies Work assisting entrepreneurs with disabilities, and more. As a company, we support the volunteer work Zenbusiness employees are passionate about by offering volunteering time and opportunities in their communities.
Zenbusiness was rated by Forbes as one of the “Best LLC Services” in the country for the second year in a row with an outstanding 4.9 rating.
At ZenBusiness we strive to make the workplace a positive aspect of all of our employees' lives, by offering robust medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and vision insurances, competitive salaries, PTO, and generous parental leave.
