Software Engineering Manager

Description:

The Opportunity
Frame.io, an Adobe Company, is changing the future of how videos are made by helping over 1 million creative professionals seamlessly collaborate from all over the world.
Engineering at Frame.io is about more than just writing code - it's crafting products that inspire creativity and allow our users to do great work. We care deeply about how our products are built, how they look, how they feel, and how they function. As an engineering manager you'll have 3 main jobs:
Empower the squad to be better at their jobs
Lead the squad in building an ambitious, best-in-class applications
Help grow our engineering team and culture
Additionally, you’ll directly contribute to codebases and provide mentorship through pair programming. To provide additional space for technical growth, each quarter you’ll pick one week to cancel all your meetings to code. We call these Manager Hack Weeks and it’s an integral part of our management culture.
Success in this role means leading the squad in delivering the best work of their careers! What you'll Do
Be a great leader and teammate - we create amazing products by working together
Facilitate a squad of highly effective engineers. Coach them. Provide technical mentorship. Unblock them. Celebrate them. Help them expand their impact each and every day
Advocate for engineering excellence and contribute to the architecture and high-level structure of our applications
Rapidly form action plans to align workstreams across squads, ensuring mobile needs are appropriately accounted for and eliminating communication gaps
Partner closely with engineers, product, design, user insights, and QA to help shape, sequence, and lead the squad’s engineering work
Provide technical leadership to the engineers and be accountable for the technical decisions made on the team
Grow, educate, and retain a successful team with a high delivery cadence in an agile environment
Help drive culture and process improvements across our engineering organization with guidance to the broader company What you need to succeed
A love of people management, product design, and using exceptional products
Experience leading people, including providing formal and informal feedback
Experience planning, implementing, and delivering projects with multiple engineers. You’ve taken ideas and turned them into reality
A strong desire to foster a working environment that’s enriching, inclusive, and safe, where people of all backgrounds and identities feel welcome
Experience working across a full web application stack. You understand a spectrum of technologies at varying degrees of expertise. We use React, Next.js, Apollo Client, Typescript, GraphQL Codegen, Jest, Storybook, Styled Components, and Framer Motion on the frontend and Elixir, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, and AWS on the backend