Engineering Manager, 7shifts
Growth
+ Equity
Workforce scheduling software for restaurants
Job no longer available
Workforce scheduling software for restaurants
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience as an engineering leader, preferably on a growth engineering team, with a track record of building, maintaining, and running high-velocity A/B tests
- Passion for fostering talent and supporting the professional development of a team of skilled engineers
- Ability to seamlessly switch contexts between languages, frameworks, and paradigms
- Eagerness to learn from colleagues and contribute to a collaborative environment
- Ability to approach technical problems at both high and implementation levels, demonstrating strong systems-thinking skills
- Enthusiasm for tackling both organizational and technical challenges, recognizing the importance of collaborative teamwork in product development
Desirable
- Proven experience building robust & scalable web/app services
- Knowledge of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS) to manage coupling and define boundaries
- Experience with MySQL/Postgresql and Redis
- Familiarity with programming languages like PHP, Javascript, Kotlin, Java or Swift/Objective C
- Previous experience in the restaurant-tech industry
What the job involves
- Lead and mentor a small team of talented and motivated engineers, serving as both a people manager and technical partner
- Drive a culture of rapid experimentation, measurement, and iteration to gain deep insights into customer behaviors and enhance product effectiveness
- Develop and share comprehensive product and business context with team members, supporting their pursuit of in-depth knowledge in their respective problem spaces to drive significant business impact
- Cultivate awareness among engineers regarding the direct correlation between their work and overarching business objectives, empowering them to make informed prioritization decisions that align with company goals
- Contribute actively to strategic technical decision-making processes, identifying opportunities to enhance engineering velocity and improve the overall quality of work-life
- Guide and spearhead changes to engineering processes and cultural practices, ensuring continuous enhancement and optimization
- Set a compelling example for the engineering team across all aspects of work, from decision-making prowess to maintaining a healthy work-life balance
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Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Equity in a Silicon Valley VC-backed startup 💰
- Competitive health benefits 🏥
- Generous & flexible vacation 🏝
- Unlimited snacks and a fully stocked fridge 🍎
- A culture that values authenticity, trust, and curiosity 🧠
- Apple equipment 💻
- Casual dress code 👖
- Our offices share neighborhoods with awesome restaurants! 🏙️️
- Exciting technical challenges and learning opportunities 👾
- Endless supply of Slack GIFs and dad jokes 👴🏻️️
- Free membership to our on-site gym (in Saskatoon)🏋
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2022
$80m
SERIES C
May 2021
$21.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $131m
Our take
7shifts is building technology products to upgrade a famously antiquated consumer business - the restaurant. Specifically, the company is helping restaurant managers handle how they schedule their often flexibility-seeking employees.
The company attributes its success to a combination of customer-obsession led product development, and their narrow focus on restaurants. Other workplace scheduling softwares exist and have success, but few are as narrowly focused on the restaurant industry as 7Shifts.
The company is now looking to help restaurants deal with what some analysts are calling ‘The Great Resignation’. To do this, they are rolling out a new hiring product that helps managers hire, track and retain employees all in one place.
The worry for 7shifts is that by developing more products focused on just this relatively narrow customer base, they may be capping their potential. However, the 7shifts leadership believes that there is real room to grow through a more generalised SaaS product for restaurants. 7shifts has also benefitted from more than $130 million in funding, which indicates that investors believe in its continued success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle