Engineering Manager, Alignable
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Social network for small business owners
Open for applications
Social network for small business owners
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Plus equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Alignable's mission is to bring together small business owners from across the globe to help them gain competitive advantage so they can succeed in their business.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of experience directly career managing software engineers - conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, career development conversations, and hiring/compensation decisions
- You have 5-8+ years of hands-on development experience with recent involvement in building complex features; strong React/Typescript, Ruby, or Elixir skills preferred
- You're comfortable being a player-coach - spending time in code reviews, architectural decisions, and technical problem-solving while developing your team
- You've influenced technical decisions in previous roles - choosing technologies, designing systems, and setting engineering standards
- You have built or led AI/ML-powered product features or used AI tools to measurably improve team productivity
- You excel at developing engineering talent with specific examples of helping team members grow their technical skills and advance their careers
- You have experience collaborating closely with Product teams and can influence technical requirements and product decisions
- You have experience in Agile/Scrum environments, managing delivery using tools like JIRA, and building scalable systems on AWS infrastructure
What the job involves
- You'll be leading a team of 3-5 software engineers and its delivery toward driving positive outcomes while being hands-on enough to commit code regularly. You're joining Alignable as we're integrating AI throughout our platform, bringing AI-powered features to life for 9+ million small business owners
- Your People Leadership: You'll conduct regular 1:1s with your direct reports, helping assign projects that play to their individual strengths while building their skill sets. You'll run performance reviews and provide career coaching while fostering a collaborative team environment. You'll be the person your engineers come to for both technical guidance and professional development
- Your Technical Leadership: You'll perform code reviews, make architectural decisions, and jump into technical challenges when your team needs senior expertise. You'll manage team delivery cadence using tools such as JIRA while personally tackling complex React/TypeScript problems and debugging challenging issues that require deep technical knowledge. You'll take clear goals with ambiguous details, turn them into actionable technical steps, and own its execution while setting technical standards for your team
- Your Cross-Functional Leadership: You'll be a partner to Product Managers and UX Designers on feature teams, influencing technical approaches and product decisions. When Marketing shares what excites prospects in demos, or when a PM discovers that restaurant owners using AI recommendations generate 3x more referrals, you'll architect the solution and guide your team's execution while ensuring the end-to-end system meets both user needs and engineering excellence standards
- What you’ll be using day-to-day:
- Frontend: Typescript, React, Jest
- Backend: Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, Go
- Databases: Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, OpenSearch
- What success looks like:
- You'll develop each team member through structured 1:1s, helping them navigate technical challenges and career growth opportunities
- You'll maintain high engineering standards through hands-on code reviews, architecture guidance, and establishing team technical practices
- You'll personally solve complex technical problems that require senior-level expertise
- You'll partner with product and design to influence technical and business outcomes
- You'll create an environment where engineers can do their best work - removing blockers, providing context, and fostering collaboration
- You'll bring AI experience and best practices to accelerate team velocity and product development
Our take
Building and maintaining a small business is no easy task, especially in more turbulent macroeconomic conditions. As many small businesses face an uncertain future, Alignable supplies a solution for owners to build stronger relationships with other SMBs, and support each other's endeavours.
Put simply, Alignable is a social network for small business owners. It boasts 8 million users, making it the largest SMB referral network in the world, and creates value by enabling users to generate and share leads, build relationships and offer advice to one another.
Lately, it seems Alignable has been focussed on expansion, making efforts to scale its workforce and grow its outreach and user base. With such a unique offering, the company has a clear opportunity for impact as well as the chance to consolidate its market lead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental, vision, mental health & life insurance
- Opt-in short & long-term disability solutions
- Unlimited time off
- Minimum 2 weeks (back to back) PTO taken each year
- Paid parental leave for birthing & non-birthing parents
- Flexible working
- 401k program
- Professional development compensation
- Remote company
- Access to remote office spaces, e.g. WeWork
- Work from home stipend
Company HQ
Bulfinch Triangle Historic District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Eric Groves
(CEO)Has served on the Board of Directors at a number of companies such as More Than Words and BigCommerce. Was an SVP at Constant Contact for over a decade.
Venkat Krishnamurthy
(President)Board Member at Grand Circle Corporation and Cementos Pacasmayo. Was Founder and CTO of Paraform, which was acquired by Nikon, and also CTO at Checkpoint Systems.
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