Engineering Manager, Stack Overflow
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Public Q&A platform for developers
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Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience directly managing engineers in a modern engineering environment
- 2+ years of software engineering experience with knowledge of MVC architectures, modern web development practices and general common architecture practices
- Demonstrated practical experience with modern cloud-based infrastructure
- Positive experience with Agile development methodologies and practices with demonstrated experience of at least one methodology (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience with personnel management practices and techniques, including, but not limited to
- Goal setting
- Positive and negative feedback
- Effective 1:1’s
- Career guidance
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Basic project management skills
- A strong desire to help their reports reach their full potential and progress in their careers
- Experience managing remote-first or distributed teams of engineers
- A track record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion on their teams and product
- Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll help your teams reach their full potential, and help each individual contributor on your teams advance in their careers
- Coming from an engineering background, but with a passion for people management, you can help your engineers understand how to solve problems, both as individuals and teams
- As a guiding voice in a cross-disciplinary, productivity driven workplace you’ll impact millions of developers every day and shape the future of the largest community of developers on the planet
- Creating a brand new product to facilitate communication with authors of widely known technologies
- Rebuilding our entire onboarding flow to increase user adoption
- Creating self serve work flows to enable ad-hoc customers
- Building a feature to report and quality control ads on the Stack Exchange network
- Redesigning our job board to make navigation easier and more efficient
- Directly managing 2 engineering teams consisting of between 3 to 6 engineers on each team
- Run all of our general team exercises, such as goal setting, check-ins, reports, trainings, etc. for all members of your teams
- Have weekly 1:1’s with all direct reports
- Work with other Agile team members such as Product Managers, Agile Leaders, Tech Leads, and others, to ensure that team level goals are being met
- Work with Directors to ensure that teams are executing projects and functions necessary to meet organizational strategic needs
- Organize and run any meetings necessary for their teams to accomplish their goals
- Provide career guidance and help engineers manage their career progression at Stack Overflow
- Mediate and resolve conflicts
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This is taking the form of partnerships with Google Cloud to boost GenAI capabilities, growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its team's platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- Focus on well-being: We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- Out of state care: We will reimburse up to $5,000 annually for the participant undergoing treatment or a procedure considered unlawful within their home state, plus a companion
- Work where you want: We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- Work how you want: While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- Take care of loved ones: We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Keep learning & growing: Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement, professional development budget for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- Stay fit & have fun: We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- Stack Gives Back: We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Previously a VP at Barclay's Investment Bank. They then worked their way through various senior-level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of Cloud and Infrastructure Services.
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