Engineering Manager, Valimail
Platform & APIs
+ Stock option plan
Email security provider
Job no longer available
Email security provider
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock option plan
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate phishing by authenticating digital communication at-scale.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience managing teams
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Encourages over communication within teams to reduce inefficiencies and ensure clarity
- Experience working in a distributed team and with a modern tech stack
- A true people manager, exuding confidence and inspiring commitment to assigned tasks, initiatives, and the larger business picture
- Approachable, Organized, Accountable
- Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team
- Bonus: Experience with Go or Ruby on Rails
What the job involves
- Valimail is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform team, providing leadership and guidance to this core area of the business
- As the Platform EM, you’ll be responsible for the core services that keep the heart of our systems running, as well as our API strategy and execution
- We are looking for someone who will focus on scaling best practices, reducing and paying down tech debt, helping to oversee new, critical implementations of core services, and owning our API strategy and execution, increasing the reliability and stability of our system and meeting customer needs more effectively
- Collaborating with other teams including product and SRE to understand the customer experiences we want to provide and explore how we can solve them
- Discuss and collaboratively solve engineering problems with engineering peers and individual contributors via Slack or Zoom
- Respond to issues or bugs that may be escalated or may need escalation
- Work with your direct reports 1-1 for career development
- Align with fellow engineering managers and leadership tackling cross-department needs
- Create avenues to hear and understand a variety of viewpoints, formulating those into strategies, goals, and project plans
- Meet with team members 1:1 regularly to ensure career growth and progression
- Work collaboratively to determine planning and execution milestones ensuring the team ships features and bug fixes regularly
- Create, align, and execute a cohesive API approach
- Support tech leads and senior engineers in engineering execution and overall technical decision making
- Communicate across teams so others at the company, both inside and outside of engineering, understand the direction of the work and reasoning behind it
- Work with the VP of Engineering to cultivate a culture of technical excellence, communication, celebration, and learning
- Collaboratively define, scope, prioritize, and estimate work demonstrating business need and impact
- Identify capacity planning needs working to provide clarity on not just what is needed now, but what should be considered for the future
Our take
Offering zero-trust email security and authentication-based solutions, Valimail is a pioneering new force in the field of DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance).
What sets Valimail apart is its new, streamlined approach to email authentication. It's creating a world where businesses can ‘trust their email’ using cloud-native solutions to protect brands, stop phishing, and ensure compliance. The company offers packages for businesses of all sizes, including small startups and large brand-conglomerates, from $199 per month.
It's now the number one DMARC solution and has amassed an impressive range of clients, including names like Uber, WeWork, and Yelp. Valimail has also won more than a dozen cybersecurity awards and has invested heavily into accelerating the expansion of its product offering and global presence whilst increasing partnerships.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2019
$45m
SERIES C
May 2018
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $83.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off
- Dental and vision insurance
- 401K match
- Company equity
- Eight weeks of paid maternity leave & four weeks of paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
River North Art District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Alexander Garcia-Tobar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Alexander has held various executive and analyst positions at leading research companies such as The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research and at silicon valley startups such as ValiCert, Sygate, and SyncTV. They are a regular contributor to several publications including CIO Magazine, Forbes, and Dark Reading.
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