Are you ready to lead teams who build software loved by thousands of restauranteurs and millions of users? Are you able to drive collaboration, and express to your team how their hard work provides the best technology solution available to restaurants? Will you grow your direct reports in both their technical capabilities and their character as teammates? If you answered yes to all these questions, Popmenu could be the place for you!

About this Opportunity

Popmenu is looking for an Engineering Manager with a record of leading engineering teams through a company’s aggressive growth phase and providing meaningful professional development opportunities to mid-level and senior engineers. Our ideal candidate understands how to motivate and develop engineers so they will operate as great teammates. They also have a passion for breaking down a project and keeping it on track. 

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Leading a team who builds quality software that accomplishes the goals defined by the product and/or technology organizations. 
• Finding the right talent. You will be interviewing and making hiring decisions that will make Popmenu a world-class engineering department. 
• Forming and maintaining high-performing cross-functional teams. 
• Owning project management, work decomposition, and performance for one or more cross-functional delivery teams. 
• Coaching and unblocking team members who are not meeting commitments. 
• Ensuring team output is visible to peers, engineering leaders, and across the company. 
• Coaching teams to push their performance beyond what they thought possible. 
• Holding regular, structured 1-1s with engineering direct reports to align the goals of Popmenu and its engineering department with each person’s unique career and personal goals. 
• Identifying growth opportunities and increased responsibility for direct reports and supporting them through to success. 
• Collaborating with engineering leadership to perform multi-perspective performance evaluations of engineering team members. 
• Diagnosing individual performance challenges, creating structured performance improvement plans and offboarding if necessary. 
• Partnering closely with UX and Product teams to ensure we are delivering the right products in the right way at the right time. 
• Discovering opportunities and taking advantage of them by implementing department and company-level initiatives. 

What You Bring to the Table

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer in a high-growth company. 
• 2+ years of leading high-performing teams with agile development practices in a high-growth organization. 
• Considerable experience coaching mid-level and senior engineers via targeted skill and behavioral development. 
• Strong understanding of scripting languages, ideally both Ruby and JavaScript. 
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and React. 
• Demonstrable experience collaborating with Support, Product, QA, and UX teams. 
• Experience implementing inter or cross-departmental initiatives is nice to have. 
• Incredibly strong textual and oral communicator who is comfortable having conversations that bring out the best in their people and teams. 

At Popmenu we believe in transparency and meeting candidates at eye-level. We know that money isn’t everything - but it is important. For this role, we have determined a compensation range of $145k to $150k in addition to company equity to be a fair and attractive offer.

We would love the opportunity to meet you and learn more about you and your background. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary from the amount above. Looking forward to chatting with you!

Who We Are:

Popmenu is a fast-growing, venture-backed SaaS company in the restaurant/hospitality sector with more than 10,000 restaurant clients. We are dedicated to revolutionizing the industry in a way that benefits both the restaurant owner and their customers. We started with our now-patented, dynamic menu technology that unleashes the power of a restaurant’s greatest marketing tool: the menu. Since then, we have been endlessly innovating to continue tackling existing and emerging industry needs.

We hire exceptionally bright, motivated people who are passionate about helping great restaurants reach their full potential. We offer a flexible work environment, a pioneering concept, a product our clients love, and talented teammates. This is a chance to make great things happen and be a difference maker. We’re excited to meet you! 

What We’re Serving:

- Genuine Core Values: We asked our employees what’s most important to them in the workplace and carefully sculpted our 4 core values to truly represent our company culture. We’re proud that our culture has been recognized with several awards including Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work and Top Workplaces USA. We’re even prouder that peers recognize each other on a monthly basis for exemplifying our values with what we call Super Booms.

- Giving Back: In addition to our larger partners such as the Giving Kitchen, our culture champions (aka monthly Super Boom winners) pick a cause they are passionate about, and we’ll make a donation in their name.

- Visible Growth and Development: There is no way to avoid personal growth in a start-up! We keep innovating and improving and our team members keep growing as well. Just in the last year, 1 out of 5 team members has been promoted into a new role.

- Company Ownership: When we say, “Act Like an Owner”, we put our money where our mouth is! Every single team member receives meaningful company equity options because we recognize that every role is important for our success.

- Benefits for the Whole Family: Along with the typical medical, dental, vision, 401K benefits, we’ve got your furry family members covered with our Wagmo Wellness Plan.