Engineering Manager, Rootly
Incident management platform
Open for applications
Incident management platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the go-to way companies respond when things go wrong, helping every organization to be more reliable.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a management or leadership role
- Proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams in a high-growth startup or SaaS environment
- Deep knowledge of modern software development practices, including agile methodologies, code versioning, testing frameworks, and cloud-based infrastructure
- Technical background with Ruby on Rails a plus
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to break down complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in defining and delivering on an engineering roadmap that balances new features, technical debt, and scalability
- A passion for mentoring and developing engineers to reach their full potential
- The ability to navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and adapt to shifting priorities in a startup environment
- Can empathize with the challenges of incident management and interest in developer-focused products
- Enjoys working and contributing to a high performing team that consistently delivers results
- We don't care about fancy degrees or FAANG experience
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you will report directly to the VP of Engineering and play a dual role in both people management and operational execution
- Your key responsibility will be building and scaling a high-performing team of engineers, while setting and executing on the technical vision and roadmap
- You will mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team, ensuring their success aligns with the success of the product
- Looking for a Manager who would thrive on balancing leadership with hands-on technical direction, is eager to have a significant impact on the businesses’ success and thrives in a fast paced startup environment
- Lead and develop a team of Ruby on Rail engineers working remotely in locations across the globe
- Lead a team of engineers through a significant feature or product launch in collaboration with Product and Design
- Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Responsible for hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
- Provide leadership and direction to engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability
- Tech Stack:
- Codebase in Ruby using Rails framework
- Turbo, Stimulus and ViewComponents in the frontend
- Rails, Postgres and Redis in the backend
- Sidekiq for background jobs
- Heroku, AWS
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- GitHub, Slack, Notion, PagerDuty
Our take
Responding to incidents is a vital function in any business, with the way teams handle issues massively affecting how the company looks to users and stakeholders. With this in mind, Rootly supplies an incident management platform for users to automate tedious parts of their incident response workflows, and ultimately react quicker to problems.
Rootly's automation can be applied to much of the incident response process; such as paging responders, creating incident reports, tracking progress and reporting to stakeholders. Importantly, it can be employed directly from Slack, meaning users can enact responses without switching between platforms.
Rootly is used by a vast range of companies, from startups to members of the Fortune 100, and its clientele includes the likes of Cisco, Shell, Nvidia and Grammarly. Its winning of the 2023 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award is another stamp of approval for the company. With strong funding secured from Silicon Valley Bank (days before the latter's collapse), Rootly plans to expand product development and invest in sales and marketing to grow its global presence.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2023
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $15.2m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision
- 3 weeks vacation + unlimited sick/mental health days + company-wide shutdown EOY
- M2 MacBook Pro of choice
- $1,000 for health and wellness
- $1,000 for home office
- $1,000 for visiting a teammate located in a different geography
- WeWork membership
- Weekly happy hour on Friday
- Learning and advancement budget at your discretion
- Annual retreat - at least once a year we gather together in person 🏝️
- Ground floor opportunity to be an early member of a fast growing venture-backed startup
Company values
- We relentlessly put transparency first
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
JJ Tang
(CEO)Former Senior Product Manager at Instacart. Worked at IBM for 3 years, ultimately as Senior Product Manager for IBM Cloud.
Quentin Rousseau
(CTO & CISO)Former Lead Engineer at Mylk Guys. Co-founded PopSQL, and was Senior Reliability Engineer at Instacart.
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