YOUR MISSION

The Microsoft Integrations team at MURAL is focused on building the best integrations between MURAL and Microsoft. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to:

• Lead a high-performing remote team of software engineers
• Partner closely with your Product, Design and Partnerships to build and deliver on a team roadmap
• Ensure the success of software projects through the planning and execution phases within and across your team and broader engineering groups
• Build and develop a diverse and capable team via hiring, coaching, and mentoring engineers

This position is located within our ‘Platform’ Engineering pillar, specifically within a group composed of different integration teams, led by a Director of Engineering.

IN THE FIRST MONTH, YOU WILL:

• Build alliances with your engineers, peers, partners, and stakeholders
• Establish your personal workflows for handling your various responsibilities
• Understand your engineering team’s workflows, constraints, roles, ceremonies, purpose, and needs from the business
• Begin learning MURAL’s product and capabilities, existing Microsoft integrations and our roadmap with Microsoft

IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS, YOU WILL:

• Work with your Product Management partner to understand and refine the team’s strategy, ensure alignment, and understand the team's priorities and roadmaps
• Work with your engineers and Product and Design partners to identify team processes that are not working and create experiments to iterate on improvements
• Navigate career path planning and identify growth opportunities for engineers to take on projects tailored to skill level and interests
• Recruit, hire, mentor, coach, and hold your engineers accountable to high standards
• Actively manage customer escalations, interruptions, and partner expectations

IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, YOU WILL:

• Advocate for and celebrate the accomplishments of your engineers through our reviews and promotion recommendation process
• Become conversationally fluent about the high-level architecture and function of your products
• Manage your product’s technical debt, working with your engineers to identify needed engineering investments (risks, architecture, toil) and ensure they’re prioritized into the backlog
• Adopt an iterative and continuous planning approach to balance agility and predictability
• Regularly set measurable stretch goals and challenge your team to reach new heights

YOUR PROFILE

• You have 2+ years of experience directly managing high-performing software engineering teams as an Engineering Manager
• Your past teams have delivered using modern agile methodologies, shipping high-quality and reliable software in regular, iterative releases
• You have a track record of attracting, developing, and advancing great engineers
• Your teams have delivered cloud-native software, ideally in a high-growth SaaS environment
• You have experience working and managing expectations with multiple stakeholders
• You’ve succeeded in managing people from other countries, cultures, and timezones and are comfortable working and managing 100% remotely
• You have an excellent command of English, both written and verbal.

Ideally you have...

• Experience managing underperformance and coaching engineers
• Experience juggling competing priorities
• Experience delivering team commitments while under pressure
• Experience managing engineers who have built apps in Node.JS, React, and TypeScript stacks
• Experience working in an exponentially high-growth environment (in terms of employee count, revenue, customer count, etc.)

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