Senior Engineering Manager

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed.  We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more. 

Over 70,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager at GlossGenius, you are responsible for growing, managing, and mentoring a team of engineers within our product engineering organization. As an engineering leader, you will collaborate closely with engineering and product leaders and own your team's technical strategy and roadmap.

We’ve built a great product that empowers tens of thousands of solopreneurs and business owners to run and grow their businesses efficiently - customers love our product (4.7+ stars in the App Store!). As our customers continue to grow their businesses, our “Spaces” team is focused on developing new products to enable GlossGenius to grow with them!

This role reports to our Director of Engineering. You can work remotely from anywhere in Canada.

What You’ll Do

• Be responsible for managing and growing a team of talented senior and staff engineers; you can view your team holistically and understand how to best utilize their skill sets, empowering them to deliver on their day-to-day engineering responsibilities as well as their long-term career aspirations.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams to establish the long-term technical and product vision and the steps needed to get there.
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure alignment across your team and other cross-functional business teams to execute on key initiatives and drive business impact.
• Implement new and effective engineering processes that emphasize quality and progress on key product initiatives 
• Partner with recruiting to build a high-performing engineering team; you understand how to attract and retain top talent.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years of experience as a people manager
• Experience leading through other leaders; this can be through technical leads or people managers
• Proven ability to collaborate with product/program managers, designers, and peers to build plans, set expectations, and successfully deliver new 0 to 1 products and features
• A strong business acumen and customer-centric mindset, backed by data analytics skills.
• Solid technical foundations, while this is not a hands-on coding role, you should still show sound foundational system design knowledge and be able to guide a team through a technical discussion
• Ability to recruit and build high-performing teams to build the next generation of GlossGenius products!
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Previous experience as leading full-stack engineering teams is a nice to have.

Benefits & Perks 

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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