Manager of Software Engineering, Phaidra

• Phaidra is looking for a driven Software Engineer to be a part of our growing Product Engineering team
• You are passionate about all things frontend and live to deliver exceptional user experience and developer experience alike
• You demonstrate an exemplary level of ownership and collaboration - you are always willing to help people within and outside of your team and no problem is below you
• The ideal candidate has solid prior experience in frontend development
• 5+ years of work experience
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading frontend teams, setting technical standards, and driving delivery through effective mentorship and cross-functional collaboration
• Expertise in JavaScript, including modern features in recent ECMAScript editions
• Expertise in CSS3 (preferably with a pre-processing framework like SASS) & HTML5
• Expertise in React and TypeScript or a similar modern SPA framework
• Experience using RESTful APIs
• Experience with modern frontend build tools and pipelines
• Knowledge of best-practices and architectural patterns for modern frontend applications
• Knowledge of User Experience and Visual Design concepts
• Knowledge of WCAG
• Excellent communicator, written and verbal
• Share our company values: transparency, collaboration, operational excellence, ownership, and empathy
• Willingness to up-skill and offer ad-hoc support to our Backend team

Desirable

• In this role, you will lead a small team of frontend engineers who build our web-based self-serve product for industrial users
• You will lead the team from the front, establish best practices, and insist on the highest standards
• The Product Engineering team at Phaidra is responsible for building the tools and applications that our customers use to configure and monitor our AI-powered control systems
• Lead a small team of frontend engineers, providing technical direction, guidance, and support to ensure successful project delivery
• Contribute to the design and implementation of our frontend applications
• Set the team standards and mentor junior frontend engineers. Participate regularly in code reviews with peers and help develop a strong engineering culture around you
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and provide insights from a frontend engineering perspective
• Convert designs and wire frames into high-quality pixel-perfect UI
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Solution Architects to intimately understand user requirements
• Collaborate with Backend Engineers to incorporate APIs
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers to define the best Frontend infrastructure solutions
• Maintain high level of code and architecture documentation
• In your first 30 days:
• You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product
• You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems
• You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra
• You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base
• You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs
• You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes
• You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure
• You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow
• You will have started shadowing customer calls related to installing and managing deployments with customers
• By your first 60 days:
• You will have a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it
• You will have met with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job
• You will establish regular 1-on-1 with all frontend team members, lead their career development, and take full people management responsibilities
• You will have completed the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task
• By your first 90 days:
• You will have been fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company
• You will get a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure
• You will have completed your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments
• You will have become an expert with our tooling
• You will have started to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra

• All of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required
• Meeting with People Operations team member (30 minutes)
• Meeting with Hiring Manager(s) (45 minutes)
• Technical Interview with a Software Engineering team member (60 minutes)
• Meeting with Product and Design Team Members (60 minutes)
• Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes)