Engineering Manager

Effortless Admin Inc.•Edmonton, AB

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Effortless Admin is a fully web-based, multi-carrier, software solution that provides employers an effortless way of managing employee benefits. Our goal is to provide the best benefits administration experience to employers and their employees, empower advisors, and ultimately bring everyone together to work as effectively as possible. As an expanding organization, we're seeking motivated leaders who want to join us on our growth trajectory.

Requirements

Experience as a builder who came up through engineering.
Ability to read a pull request and follow an architecture conversation.
Ability to identify a padded estimate.
Experience managing managers (leads), not just engineers.
Understanding of how an engineer thinks and what makes them tick.
Ability to get a group of highly intelligent experts pulling in the same direction and keep them there.
Ability to hold a firm, honest line with the business on what's achievable and back it with reality.
Ability to say no to people higher on the org chart.
Calm under competing priorities.
Allergic to letting work drift unfinished.
Technical enough to follow the work, challenge an estimate, and tell when a 'blocker' is real.

Nice To Haves

Someone who wants to be the technical authority.
Someone who wants to reclaim the keyboard.
Someone who wants to win the architecture debate.
Someone who needs to be the smartest technical person in the room to feel valuable.
Industry experience in group benefits, insurance, or our industry.

Responsibilities

Lead the day-to-day of the engineering organization so that four teams ship the right things, on time, without burning out or losing focus.
Own how and when the work gets done and who does it well.
Lead the four engineering team leads, coach them, hold them accountable, and grow them.
Make the whole engineering organization operate as one coordinated unit rather than four silos.
Ensure cross-team delivery by making workflow between teams seamless so nothing stalls.
Negotiate delivery commitments with the CTO against actual capacity.
Run the engineering team's own weekly Level 10 meeting, focused on engineering's leading indicators and issues.
Build a cadence that keeps the team focused and stops people from flipping between things half-finished.
Own the hiring bar, the pipeline, and retaining good people.
Protect team focus by making decisions on whether to include small features or fixes, and saying no when necessary to protect commitments.
Manage the delivery cadence and growth of the security/operations team lead.