Engineering Manager, Chromatic
$185-207k
Salary may vary in further locations. + Equity
Frontend UI testing & review platform for teams
Open for applications
Frontend UI testing & review platform for teams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$185-207k
Salary may vary in further locations. + Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve the UX of the internet.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional experience as a manager of a software engineering team
- Clear written and verbal communicator who can share thoughts and ideas productively in our distributed, asynchronous environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the intuition and empathy to effectively lead a team of folks across time zones and physical locations (the team you’ll be leading is primarily based in North America, but our teams are distributed globally)
- Strong opinions, weakly held—someone who pushes back on ideas to drive better outcomes, handles critique without defensiveness, and demonstrates a growth mindset
- Focused executor who stays accountable to commitments, contains distractions, and ensures the team delivers consistent progress even when things don't go as planned
- Genuinely invested in developer experience, whether you've shipped tools for developers or spent years deeply understanding front-end teams' pain points
- Have 5+ years of professional experience as an engineer in web development
- Have managed an engineering team in the developer tooling space
- Have experience with Storybook or Chromatic
- Have worked effectively in a distributed, remote-first team environment
- Have followed a non-traditional path into software and bring insight from experiences beyond engineering
What the job involves
- We're seeking an engineering manager to be responsible for a full-stack feature team building customer-facing capabilities for our platform
- Thousands of developers and stakeholders use this application to interact with our UI Tests, UI Review workflows, and other features—all to ensure their front-ends are regression-free
- These powerful customer-facing workflows are built with React (Next.js), GraphQL, Emotion, and TypeScript
- Over the past year, highlights from our team's work include:
- Launched accessibility regression testing to help customers continuously improve the accessibility of their front-ends
- Shipped a new Dashboard that provides a project-wide, component-level view of accessibility issues
- Built workflows for handling inconsistent UI rendering in UI tests
- Implemented new enterprise account management features
- Improved the performance and accessibility of the Chromatic front-end
- We're at a significant moment in our company's history
- We're running a successful business at tremendous scale, and your work will immediately impact customers worldwide
- We need your expertise to evolve our product and architecture
- Shipping with momentum matters, but we also make space to think ideas through carefully and ship the right things
- Our diverse team is full of passionate, curious people who can learn, grow, and feel supported in taking on new challenges
- We dive into complex problems and create simple, high-quality, delightful solutions
- If you're energized by the idea of building systems that prevent bugs from reaching millions of users daily, this is the perfect job for you
- Lead a team of 6-10 engineers and consistently deliver projects that align with our business objectives
- Collaborate with the rest of the engineering management team to continually evolve our culture and processes
- Work cross-functionally at Chromatic to ensure feature continuity between Chromatic and Storybook and ship work that delights developers
- Collaborate with the Product team, your peer managers, and other stakeholders to prioritize upcoming projects
- Take responsibility for successful execution of projects in your domain
- Meet regularly with your team to manage tasks and help remove blockers
- Mentor and support the growth of our engineering team
- Establish onboarding procedures for new hires to the team (or other staff beginning to contribute to Storybook), and help grow the team through hiring as needed
Our take
User Interfaces are set to be built exclusively by components in the future, meaning automated workflow maintenance solutions will be vital. Chromatic simplifies UI testing, maintenance, and collaboration, ultimately reducing the amount of manual work typically required for these processes, thus enabling accelerated project development and consistently refined UIs.
The company’s Chromatic software automates UI feedback, visual regression testing, and documentation workflows for the most popular open-source UI development tool, Storybook, which is used by thousands of companies worldwide (including Lyft, AirBNB, and GitHub) The company also counts the BBC, Auth0, and Shopify among its customers.
Backed by CRV, the company has focused on continued innovation of both Chromatic and Storybook, as well as expanding its presence across the UI market. The company is well set to continue on its current growth path as more companies adopt Chromatic’s system and new funding rounds boost its growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Work From Anywhere
- Annual Retreats
- Health Benefits for You and Yours
- Parent and Family-Friendly
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Home Office benefit
- Learning benefit
- Monthly Internet benefit
- Unlimited Vacation
- 401(k)
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zoltan Olah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Senior Product Manager at Apollo GraphQL and Director of Customer Success at Meteor Development Group. Co-Founder & former Engineer, Product & Business Development at Percolate Studio.
Tom Coleman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Solutions Architect at Meteor Development Group. Co-Founder & former Development Lead at Percolate Studio.
Dominic Nguyen
(Co-Founder & CXO)Worked in Product design at Meteor Development Group. Co-Founder & former Design Lead at Percolate Studio. Co-Creator & former Lead Designer at Bindle. Founded Supernormal Studio.
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