Frontend Engineering Manager

About the job Frontend Engineering Manager

COVID Update
- We are actively hiring for this position and have been operating as a fully distributed organization across the United States since Fire Hydrant started. We anticipate a future where we will be able to periodically gather as a company again, but we put the health and wellbeing of our employees (and their families) first.

About Fire Hydrant

Fire Hydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The Fire Hydrant platform includes

Incident Response ,Status Pages ,Retrospectives ,and Deploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series A company with around 30 employees who sit across the United States and we’re growing.

About The Role

Fire Hydrant is looking for our second engineering manager to empower and grow a team of highly skilled engineers. Our growing engineering organization is split into three teams focused on quarterly goals. Within the department, we also have engineers who focus on their chosen practice between Frontend, Backend, Platform and SRE - which we value equally.

We are looking for another person to work alongside our Head of Engineering who can help guide part of the team and ensure they are getting the time and support they deserve. Our new Engineering Manager will focus on people management across the engineering team, helping us to achieve our quarterly goals.

What You’ll Do

• Empower the team to creatively solve problems and grow their roles.
• Support your team through one-on-ones, setting goals, and facilitating conversations to ensure career progression, well-being, and performance.
• Foster a healthy, thriving and inclusive environment and speak up when you see injustices.
• Understand the team. You care about people and think they are the most exciting part of the job.
• Unblock your reports to allow them to do what they love, ship code!
• Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones and deliverables.
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us to grow and scale

What You’ll Bring

• A strong understanding of engineering best practices and navigating technical decision making (trade offs, business impact, etc).
• At least 3 years experience leading engineering teams (plus experience as an individual contributor, ideally working with Frontend Development
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup
• Passion for working with, teaching, and learning from a diverse group of people
• Emotional intelligence and understanding that people are more important than technology

Life at Fire Hydrant

• We’re remote-first with engineers around the US, our headquarters is in NYC (Union Square)
• We collaborate through Slack, Zoom, Git Hub pull requests, Notion, and Clubhouse
• We believe in a healthy work-life balance; we’re early stage but work reasonable hours and encourage you and your team to enjoy both your vacation time and your time at work
• 100% employer-paid health, vision and dental premiums for the employee and 75% of dependents
• Unlimited vacation policy with a minimum requirement of three weeks off per-year
• Wellness program: reimbursements for your gym membership, athletic equipment, nutrition plans, etc
• A stipend to outfit your home office beyond the laptop/monitor