Mgr, Software Development

About the Role

Engineering at Frame.io focuses on crafting products that inspire creativity and enable users to do great work. The company deeply values how products are built, their appearance, feel, and functionality. This role is for an Engineering Manager to lead the Search squad, a team focused on the platform's next-generation search and secure workflow capabilities. The squad will be involved in cross-team initiatives and own upcoming work on search, custom fields, metadata, views, and workflow features critical to business success.

The manager's three primary responsibilities are:

• Empower the squad to excel in their roles.
• Lead the squad in building ambitious, best-in-class applications.
• Contribute to the growth of the engineering team and culture.

Additionally, the role involves direct codebase contributions through feedback and mentorship via pair programming. Each quarter, there is a dedicated "Manager Hack Week" for coding, fostering technical growth and integrated into the management culture. Success is defined by leading the team to achieve their best work.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a strong leader and teammate, fostering collaboration to create exceptional products.
• Facilitate a squad of effective web and backend engineers, providing coaching, technical mentorship, unblocking assistance, and recognition.
• Advocate for engineering excellence and contribute to the architecture and high-level structure of applications.
• Develop and implement rapid action plans to align workstreams across squads, ensuring squad needs are met and communication gaps are eliminated.
• Partner closely with engineers, product, design, user insights, and QA to shape, sequence, and lead the squad’s engineering work.
• Provide technical leadership to engineers and assume accountability for team technical decisions.
• Grow, educate, and retain a successful team with a high delivery cadence in an agile environment.
• Co-own squad strategy with product, design, and senior partners.
• Drive culture and process improvements across the engineering organization, providing guidance to the broader company.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• A passion for full-stack engineering, technical leadership, people management, product design, and using exceptional products.
• Demonstrated experience planning, implementing, and delivering projects involving multiple engineers and squads, turning ideas into reality.
• A strong commitment to fostering an enriching, inclusive, and safe working environment where individuals of all backgrounds and identities feel welcome.
• Experience working across a full web application stack.
• Understanding of a spectrum of technologies with varying degrees of expertise.
• Frontend: React, Next.js, Apollo Client, Typescript, GraphQL Codegen, Styled Components.
• Backend: Elixir, Postgres, OpenSearch, Redis, AWS.
• Experience leading people, including providing formal and informal feedback.
• A passion for collaborating with design from concept to production and enabling engineers to do the same.
• A track record of delivering beautiful and performant software, including a strong sense of clean animations and flexible layouts.
• Proficiency in developing secure, hardened code.
• Eagerness to innovate on performance through load optimizations, pre-fetching, and animation.

Qualifications

• A love of full-stack engineering.
• Technical leadership experience.
• People management experience.
• Product design understanding.
• Experience using exceptional products.
• Experience planning, implementing and delivering projects with multiple engineers, and multiple squads.
• Experience working across a full web application stack.
• Experience leading people.
• Passion for collaborating with design.
• Track record of delivering beautiful and performant software.
• Proficient in developing secure, hardened code.
• Eager to innovate on performance.