Engineering Manager - Customer Acquisition Team

About the role:

Do you thrive on leading an engineering team, collaborating with product managers on roadmap prioritization, managing the software development lifecycle, and inspiring your team to meet sprint commitments? Then this may be the job for you. The Customer Acquisition team builds our borrower refi application UX and API for partner integrations, working primarily on React/TypeScript/Node.js and our Ruby on Rails monolith. Our approach focuses on continuous improvement by learning the customers' needs and reducing friction.

What you’ll do:

• Provide stewardship over the codebases you're responsible for, striving for flexibility and agility in the face of expanding and changing business requirements
• Run the SDLC for your team, efficiently and effectively delivering great software sprint by sprint
• Continuously improve the processes and practices of your engineering team, ensuring they're doing their best work
• Partner with Product Owners to provide market and business context to your teams, maintaining a collaborative environment for product design and evolution
• Mentor and coach the engineers on your team to expand their skills and advance in their careers
• Play a leadership role in defining and evolving how Engineering works at Caribou

This role can be based out of our Caribou office in Denver, CO. Alternatively, this role may work remotely from a state where Caribou operates with a preference for the Chicago, IL, Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA markets.*

What we look for:

• Prior work leading engineers maintaining and improving consumer UX with React and RESTful APIs in TypeScript
• Customer-focused leaders with an understanding of and passion for well-crafted software
• Driven, life-long learners committed to expanding their skills in both leadership and engineering
• Full-stack understanding of production software systems from hosts and HTML, to containers and caches, to databases and DNS, to runtimes and REST
• Collaborative, people-first leaders who lead with context over command and control
• Leaders with a commitment to bringing out the best in those around them as a measure of their success

How we will take care of you:

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Competitive compensation: $170-210k
• Equity options
• 401k savings program
• Generous paid time off including: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents.
• Robust wellness benefits including company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability and basic life insurance.
• Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance.
• Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses.