As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team of engineers in building an awesome product at scale. You'll get the opportunity to manage and mentor engineers and team leads, while helping grow the team and shape engineering strategy. You thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and are able to balance solutions that are elegant and scalable yet simple and pragmatic. You’ll be joining a team that’s passionate about technology, building products we’re proud of, and upholding a strong, collaborative team culture. We’re excited to meet you.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day:

• Directly manage and help grow engineers and tech leads
• Collaborate with the Engineering Management Team on the Engineering Team vision and strategy
• Champion tactical areas of concern on the engineering team such as performance, accessibility, and community best practices in our code base
• Help insure high quality code through getting involved in PR reviews and team discussions
• Collaborate with product and design teams to bring projects from conception to production
• Recruit and hire new engineering team members 

What You’ll Need to Be Successful:

• 6+ years of experience building highly-scalable web applications
• 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers
• Extensive technical experience building consumer facing web applications at scale
• Bonus for previous startup experience at similarly sized companies

Why you're excited about us:

• Our team: We have a passionate, creative, and innovative team that is a lot of fun to work with.
• Our mission: We’re doing work that matters – connecting lifelong learners around the world and empowering them to pursue their creativity.
• Remote Culture: A healthy, productive working environment means different things for different people. We optimize for trust and invest in supporting remote teams, offer home office stipends for those that work best in their own space and co-working spaces for those that thrive in a social office environment, and focus on transparent communication to ensure an inclusive, equitable work environment for everyone.
• Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, offer home office stipends and co-working spaces in multiple cities, have an unlimited vacation policy (with a required minimum!), and encourage work-life balance.
• Impact: You’ll have the chance to directly impact the user experience around how students learn and how teachers create and share content on Skillshare.
• Your growth: You’ll have the opportunity to wear a lot of hats and take on more responsibility over time. We have a fresh $70 million in capital and a very, very long to-do list.
• Benefits: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. We support our team with unlimited PTO, gender-neutral parental leave, anniversary bonuses and sabbaticals, and healthy stipends for creativity, learning, and personal wellness.

About Skillshare

Skillshare is an online learning community for creatives. We have thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, and millions of members who come together to find inspiration and take the next step in their creative journey. We are a series-D company backed by OMERS, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Amasia, Spero Ventures, and Burda Principal Investments.

Skillshare is committed to building a diverse team that reflects a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We’re proud to be recognized as a top place to work by BuiltinNYC, Crain’s, and Forbes, in addition to being one of the five best places to work for women by Bpeace, and a top-rated workplace for dads by Fatherly. We work to ensure a consistent interview process, fair compensation, and inclusive work environment for all.