Engineering Manager, ReadMe
Making documentation & APIs easier to use
Job no longer available
Making documentation & APIs easier to use
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give teams the tools they need to create and manage beautiful documentation with ease, monitor their APIs, and connect with their users in more personal ways.
Role
Who you are
- Are excited to help build a developer experience that you’d want to use!
- Have experience as a technical manager with a focus on growth and mentorship
- You’re looking to be part of a company that cares about its employees, and who rewards you for caring about your team
- Believe that companies and the products they produced are deeply intertwined, and excited to invest time and energy into both
- You can bring a bit of necessary structure and process, but also believe people do their best work if trusted and supported
- Sometimes want the opportunity to talk to and work directly with customers
- You want to build something millions of developers use and love
- You’re excited to do great work with people you like, while having a bit of fun in the process
What the job involves
- You’ll maintain and expand the culture of not just the engineering team, but the company in general. From inside jokes to engineering practices, you’ll be a huge influence in how the company works
- Have a large say in the roadmap, both from a resourcing perspective (what the engineering team has bandwidth for) and from a product perspective (what you think we should be working on)
- Directly manage and support a team of engineers, enabling them to do their best work
- Mentor engineers to make sure they’re able to be the best versions of themselves at ReadMe
- Write code! All our managers stay hands-on with the product
- Collaborate closely with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience to build a seamless user journey
- 🌱 How you'll grow within one month
- Get to know the team, product, and codebase
- Start thinking through what success looks like over the next year
- Build relationships across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience
- 🪴 Within a few months, you'll..
- Become involved in product planning and engineering resourcing
- Match team members with projects that play to their strengths
- Help guide technical decisions and outline team goals
- 🌳 Within your first year, you'll..
- Deliver thoughtful annual reviews and development plans
- Support promotions and career growth across the team
- Foster a team culture that’s collaborative, curious, and aligned with ReadMe’s mission
Application process
- We can’t wait to read your resume and (hopefully personality-filled) cover letter! Let us know what excites you about the intersection of visual design and engineering, and help us get to know you better!
- If we think we might be a good fit for you, we’ll set up a 30 minute phone chat with Greg, our CEO and Founder! He’ll tell you more about the role, and get a chance to hear about your experiences
- Next will be a second 45 minute phone interview with one of our current Engineering Managers, where we’ll dive a bit more into your background
- Then we’ll invite you to an "onsite" interview conducted over Zoom! These usually take 3.5 to 5 hours including an hour break in between. We are able to be flexible with the schedule and split it up over two days if that works best for you! We start with a 15-minute get-to-know-you so you can meet the people you’ll be working with, and then have you talk with people one-on-one later on
- We’ll let you know how things went within a week! If it still seems like a good fit all around, we’ll extend you an offer! If not, we will update you to let you know so you aren’t left hanging
Our take
APIs help different tools communicate with one another, let developers access essential services without the need to code and are critical components when driving a platform-driven strategy. However, they require solid documentation in order to help make the best use of them.
ReadMe is a platform powering interactive developer hubs that help customers build out their API documentation. They allow developers to make calls faster while quickly troubleshooting issues along the way to provide teams with the highest-impact improvements.
The company was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 cohort and since then it has grown steadily and profitably by working with over 3,000 companies, including NVIDIA, Gusto, Walmart and Roku. Because the company worked with such big names from an early stage, it focused primarily on developing its API logs to create more dynamic documentation, putting the startup in a prime position for further expansion.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2019
$9m
SERIES A
Jun 2015
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $10.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare for Owl: Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and your dependents; as well as paid parental leave. We also give each employee a OneMedical subscription.
- Quarterly Retreats: Three times a year, we spend a few days planning and working together in places like Tahoe and Honolulu. Come along!
- A Focus on Wellness: Each employee gets up to $150 for whatever wellness means to you, and an additional $350 for mental wellness for up to 6 months.
- Unlimited PTO: And a three-week minimum. Our PTO is actually unlimited, and we encourage you to use it! We also have 10 paid holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year's Day off.
- Flexible Work: You’re allowed to work from home or come into the office as much as you want! The choice is yours, and we'll give you a stipend for your home office to make sure you have everything you need.
- Competitive Pay: We offer starting salaries at the 75th percentile, and significant equity. Relocation bonuses are also available!
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Gregory Koberger
(Founder)Studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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