Software Engineering Manager

Proton

Location Boston, MA or Remote (within North America or willing to work USA hours)
Salary Salary $150k (US—adjusted for international contractors), plus Equity, Healthcare, 401(k) and unlimited vacation policy.
  • Closing: 8:50am, 22nd Dec 2021 EST

Job Description

About Us

Proton.ai is revolutionizing wholesale distribution. Distributors sell nearly every physical good you come across. Key to the economy, they make up over 28% of GDP. But there’s a problem. Selling as a distributor is complicated. Distributors carry hundreds of thousands of complicated products, making it impossible for distributors to know what their customers need. Proton cuts through this complexity with AI. We provide a solution that modernizes distributors' sales efforts. And in doing so, we help distributors better serve their customers and grow.

Our company is in hypergrowth mode. We’ve grown by more than six fold year over year. Needless to say, it’s an exciting time to join the Proton.ai team.

The Role

As a software engineering manager on our product team, you'll build features that allow our customers to work smarter and more efficiently. You’ll serve as the engineering leader for a team, helping your fellow team members deepen their expertise, effectively collaborate, and develop a technology vision. Our engineering managers are typically in charge of between two and five other engineers. You'll also spend some time in the weeds, helping write code in your area of expertise. Together with the product team, you'll work to build scalable solutions to big problems. This position reports to our chief technology officer.

Your Impact

On a typical day you might:

  • Collaborate with your product manager to prioritize new features and propose features for our roadmap

  • Meet with other engineering leaders to discuss lessons learned and how to scale them to the rest of the engineering team

  • Meet with engineers you manage to solve problems and help them grow and progress in their careers

  • Build core pieces of data technology used by other development teams to power their software and systems with our powerful data collation and machine learning APIs

Who We're Looking For

Our team codes in Go, JavaScript (using the Vue framework), and Python, with modern scalable document- and key-based data stores behind them. You're not expected to have deep familiarity with any of these, but you will need to develop a working understanding as you marshal and manage resources. We prefer excellence to expediency. Backed by our microservice architecture, we want the best tool not the most convenient. If there’s a compelling case to write something in Clojure, we can and will do it. With strong foundations, specific knowledge of these tools is not required. As the driver of engineering on this team, you'll have a chance to define the technology vision for our order entry systems.

As an early member of the company, you’ll have a chance to shape how we grow, making key decisions around technical choices, and defining our culture. We're working to build a sustainable environment where excellence sits alongside a recognition we operate in a system and a need to nurture learning at all levels. Our growing corps of engineering leadership, including this role, should bring more expertise into that equation.

Benefits

We are a remote first company. This is a full-time, fully remote position within North America (or willing to work USA hours), with occasional paid travel to in-person meetups. Competitive salary $150k (United States—cost of living adjusted for other countries), plus equity. We cover 99% of your health insurance cost, offer an unconditional 401(k) contribution, and have a vacation policy that actually wants you to take time off.

You may also notice we hire a little differently. We're looking for where can go, not where you've been. We'd encourage you to visit our engineering blog to learn more about how we hire.

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Wed 22nd Dec 2021

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You won't need a CV to apply to this job

Applications closed Wed 22nd Dec 2021