Manager Responsibilities:

• Manage direct reports to be successful Realm Tech Leads as described here


• Coach direct reports to grow their engineering skills across the software stack


• Support direct reports through the process of making collaborative system architecture, scaling, and software process decisions with the rest of the tech team


• Hold regular weekly 1-1s with direct reports


• Set quarterly goals with direct reports


• Perform quarterly performance evaluations with direct reports


• Run the hiring and onboarding process for 1-2 new team members

• Write code and lead projects that span the entire software stack, including prototyping, front-end development, API development, high-performance back-end applications, database design, and system architecture


• Debug, analyze, and resolve scaling problems across a variety of web applications, with tactics like architecture simplification, adding caching layers or queues


• Create and contribute to open source projects that share innovations back with the larger developer community


• Contribute to system architecture and build vs buy decisions, and make hard decisions about complexity


• Contribute to team discussions on building an equitable working environment


• Come up with ideas for new innovative distributed organizing applications


• Learn, grow, and succeed in your career.

• Interest in technical leadership


• Commitment to creating and sustaining processes that set software engineers up for success


• Commitment to building a software engineering environment where everyone can thrive


• Passionate about mentoring and coaching other engineers


• Ability to communicate effectively in 1-1s in an organization whose staff all work remotely


• Ability to resolve conflicts, using a variety of communication strategies

• Currently fluent in at least one programming language and web development platform, with significant prior development experience in at least two programming languages


• Experience carrying a > 6 month long project over the finish line


• Experience debugging and resolving a major production problem


• Proven ability to fearlessly tackle complexity


• Interested in learning and diving into new languages, tools, frameworks


• Experience on both front-end and back-end development and the interactions between the two, including HTTP, CORS, CDN caching


• Experience scaling applications with caching and troubleshooting bottlenecks at the database and application layers


• Determined and thorough- can see a project through from idea to prototyping, design, production, scaling and beyond


• Familiar with agile software development methodologies


• Ability to be effective in an organization whose staff all work remotely