Manager, Engineering

Position Summary

As an Engineering Manager at Wheel, you’ll be responsible for building software and running teams that are critical to the success of the company. You will lay the foundation for our engineering team, focused on creating technology platforms and products to support our mission to become the infrastructure of Virtual Care. In this position, you will work across the entire company, and closely with clients to define and deliver your goals. The majority of your work would be ‘green field’ with the opportunity to be part of defining best-in-class solutions to virtual care problems. You are a true people leader; someone who believes in “we” before “me” and your team’s motivation, growth, and wellbeing first. You are self-motivated, versatile, and compassionate, and can work equally well in highly collaborative settings as well as those with little direction.

This position is open for candidates in the following locations:

Austin, Texas

Boston, Massachusetts

Chicago, Illinois

New York City, New York

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Seattle, Washington

Responsibilities

Support, mentor and grow your engineers to help them continuously improveEnsure we’re constantly moving our product forward in a build-learn-iterate modelMentor and guide your team in best-practices for modern web products and distributed systemsBe ‘hands on’ - you can still code alongside your teamCollaborate with product, design, and leadership to ideate and develop winning products that help move the business forwardDesign, build, deploy and maintain systems and user experiences that scale with a high growth companyTake ownership of new features, big and small, analyzing system and business metrics post-release

Technologies We Use And Teach

Node/TypeScriptRubyReact and VuePostgreSQLAWSDocker and KubernetesKafka

Qualifications

3+ years of management experience, running multiple teams simultaneouslyAptitude for working in a collaborative environment as an empathetic teammate6+ years of experience with full-stack development, building real-world web applications in production environmentsYou can operate autonomously and have a strong desire to make an impactExemplary communication skills; able to explain possible solutions to non-technical team membersBonus points if you have prior startup experience or have experience building highly scalable products. Growth startup experience - series A/B is idealProven ability to learn new technologies quicklyThrives in a collaborative and diverse environment