When deploying applications in production, developers have to pick between two imperfect extremes: expensive yet simplistic platforms like Heroku, or complicated, do-it-all-yourself services like AWS. By contrast, Render makes it easy to get up and running quickly but also allows applications to scale and increase in complexity over time, preventing a transition to DIY infrastructure.

Render completely frees up developers and teams from managing infrastructure. Ultimately, this improves the quality of all software and enables entirely new kinds of applications.

We're building products that eliminate needless complexity and minimize cognitive overhead for our users. This requires a world-class, diverse engineering team that is much more than the sum of its parts.

This is where you come in.

As Render's first engineering manager, you will have an outsized impact on our trajectory and culture, and the opportunity to scale with the company as we grow. Your goal is simple: improve the outcomes for your team and its members.

Why join us

• We're solving a problem faced by every developer and development team. It's a massive and rapidly growing market (AWS is privately valued at over $300B, and there are over 20 million professional developers globally).
• We serve over one billion requests every month, our customers love us, and our revenue is growing quickly.
• Our stock grants are in the 99th percentile.
• Everyone wants to move their infrastructure to Kubernetes, but it's too complex for most engineering teams. Render makes it possible to harness the power of Kubernetes without any of its complexity.
• We're backed by some of the best angel investors and VC firms in the world.
• The company is led by Anurag Goel, who was employee #8 and later Head of Risk at Stripe, where he helped the company launch and scale to a $5B valuation. You will partner with Anurag to define engineering management and culture at Render.

What we're looking for

• At least 5 years of experience managing and developing engineering teams at high growth technology startups.
• Prior experience building products across the stack and a deep understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple backend languages.
• A strong affinity for developing people and teams through hands-on mentoring.
• The ability to drive and manage creative conflict to achieve better outcomes.
• Experience facilitating difficult one-on-one and group conversations with empathy and fairness.
• High integrity, low ego, inquisitiveness, and a commitment to lifelong learning.
• Bonus points for experience hiring and managing engineering managers.

What you'll work on

• Be a multiplier for your team; help them do their best work as individuals and as a team.
• Support your team in fulfilling their career goals.
• Work on cross-functional planning and create processes to help achieve personal, team, and company goals.
• Increase Render's diversity of gender, perspective, and ethnicity through conscientious and proactive hiring.
• Predict and manage organizational scaling issues and prevent them from happening where possible.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering, design, growth and other business functions.

Some benefits we offer

• Work from home until COVID-19 community spread is under control or until a vaccine is readily available.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with PPO plans and 100% of your premiums paid by Render.
• 99th percentile stock grants and a comfortable San Francisco salary.
• Four weeks paid vacation, and vacation days are only counted when you take more than one at a time.
• Flexible work from home policy.
• 3 months paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Commuter benefits including Lyft and SF Muni passes.
• A sunny, beautiful, well-stocked office in SoMa close to Caltrain and BART.
• Monthly gym membership allowance.
• Build your own laptop/workstation with any peripheral or accessory you need.
• Use the company card for any and all work equipment and educational materials.
• Financial and logistical assistance to help you relocate to the Bay Area.
• Immigration assistance.
• Birthday celebrations, weekly happy hours, company dinners, and semi-annual team retreats.
• Surprise gifts for the holidays!

As we enter the next phase of our growth, great management becomes critical in helping our people, relationships, and output scale accordingly. If you are energized by the prospect of growing a close-knit, high functioning team and helping them do the best work of their careers, you're going to love it here.

We look forward to hearing from you!