Software Engineering Manager, Mobile
Getting together with real people in real life makes powerful things happen. Side hustles become careers, ideas become movements, and chance encounters become lifelong connections. Meetup brings people together to create thriving communities. Show up. Change lives.
Software Engineering Managers at Meetup are people managers first. Our goal is to attract, grow, and retain world-class engineering talent. You will be part of the engineering leadership team, which means being aligned with our company values and advocating for adoption by others. While being exemplary cultural pillars, engineering managers are also responsible for team culture, coaching/mentoring, and the success of their engineers. If you're applying for this role, you're a great leader of people and are humble yet ambitious.
You are:
- A leader: A strong desire to focus on managing people as well as developing and managing career growth plans with engineers and the ability to keep engineers focused on the most important things for both the company and themselves
- Experienced: Have at least 3 years experience mentoring and/or managing engineers in technical and non-technical areas
- Communication focused: You are adept at explaining the "Why" behind decisions. You understand the right medium for the message you are conveying, be it email, slack, or 1-on-1 meetings
- A team player: You are the consummate team player. You work well with others. You aim to learn from, teach, and give timely and specific feedback to your colleagues
- Adaptable: You can handle changing requirements and difficult problems. You build process for the long-term while managing iterative, short-term needs
- Values-aligned: You have a dedication to the company's core mission of cultivating local community worldwide
What you get to do:
- Be an effective people manager that focuses on coaching, team culture, and recruiting
- Be the embodiment of Meetup culture for your team
- Help drive engineering and management culture at Meetup
- Ensure teams are set up with the right engineers and hold everyone accountable for their performance
- Actively participate in your reports' professional development through coaching, timely and specific feedback, regular 1-on-1s, and highlighting growth opportunities
- Unblock team members by working with neighboring teams to determine solutions and timelines
- Manage engineers with different experience/skillset than your own
- Work with our recruiting partners on outreach efforts, interview prep, and interviewing
- Own the roadmap for the mobile team and work with your engineering lead on planning and execution
Bonus points for:
- Know/like any of the tools we use: mobile release structures, mobile tooling e.g. Google Play Store, iTunes Connect, Google Analytics, BuddyBuild, Travis
- Project management experience
- Organizing local meetups
Check out our engineering blog: https://medium.com/making-meetup
Our team is bold, supportive, and passionate about bringing people together in real life to create community for everyone. We care about moving fast, real world change, and building diverse, dynamic teams. You in?