Engineering Team Lead

Engineering Managers at Walnut see their team as their product. While they are technically credible and know the details of what engineers work on, their time is spent safeguarding their team's health, hiring a world-class team, and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. They must also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals. A team manager at Walnut works will work with his PM partner, Designer and Tech Lead to execute on defined OKRs. You're still expected to be hands-on at times but your focus will be the team.

As a Fullstack Engineering Manager, you will directly manage an engineering team and work shoulder to shoulder with your PM counterpart to drive team KPIs and OKRs. The team consists of Fullstack Engineers responsible for backend and frontend changes. The Engineering Manager's responsibility is primarily their team. They need to be familiar with Walnut's underlying technologies and processes to be able to support their team, as well as be the final decisive vote in cases where the team is blocked on a decision.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) are fundamental to the success of Walnut. We want to infuse DIB in every way possible and in all that we do. We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best.

What your day to day will look like:

• Hold regular 1:1s with team members
• Managing and mentoring a team of full-stack engineers
• Work with your engineers to grow their skills and experience
• Participate and support a psychological safety of the team
• Build a cultural foundation of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
• Drive quarterly OKRs around team goals
• Help define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Be accountable for product quality, security, and performance
• Collaboration with Product Management and other teams on requirements, design, integrations and development
• Proactive contribution to continuous improvement of work methodology, product quality and team personal development
• A high level of ownership and responsibility of all work done by the team
• Deep understanding and collaboration with our business/marketing teams to bring our developers closer to our stakeholders
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer with frontend and backend development.
• 3+ years of experience managing remote engineering teams at mid size startups
• Excellent knowledge of web development tools(HTML/CSS/JS + React)
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language NodeJs/Java/Go etc
• Worked in a team ensuring code quality and system security through automation, unit testing and structured code reviews.
• Independent, fast learner and excited about learning new technologies.
• Product oriented, combining thoughtfulness with pragmatism and a will to get stuff done.
• Exquisite communication skills
• You believe effective and successful work is made possible by clear and honest communication, with a shared understanding of the long-term vision and immediate next actions.