Overview:

Guru is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to be a part of the core engineering management team. If you have a passion for inspiring teams and building products with great user experiences, we'd love to hear from you!

At Guru your voice will be heard and respected. One of our core values is “Learn and Grow” as we strive to continually find opportunities to learn how we can better communicate and work more effectively as a team. We actively promote a healthy work life balance, especially during the global pandemic, as we realize for many life and work are intertwined more than ever.

Responsibilities:

As an Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Guru, you will be responsible for:

• As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Guru, your responsibilities will be, but not limited to:

  • Coaching and mentoring engineers to help them achieve desired growth
  • Partnering with your Product and Design lead counterparts to ensure that 4-week build cycles are scoped and designed for success
  • Be responsible for project execution and delivery across your Product Team, identifying risks, offering solutions, and driving improvements with both engineers and other engineering managers
  • Empowering your Product team, coaching and supporting them as needed to help achieve their goals
  • Aligning your Product team’s projects to company OKRs, ensuring they have line of sight on how their work contributes to company goals
  • Collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to create and communicate the vision, roadmap, and technical strategy for the Engineering team
  • Advocating for technical work/debt to be prioritized as part of the roadmapping process 
  • Identifying inefficiencies and driving projects to improve and/or eliminate them
  • Identifying team needs, upskilling engineers, and/or recruiting new team members
  • Setting policies as an engaged member of the company leadership team
  • Building a culture rewarding strategic failure as well as success

Requirements:

• 5 years experience leading an engineering team
• Solid understanding of how effective, multi-functional product engineering teams work within a SaaS company
• Solid understanding of engineering methodologies, ideally having worked as a software engineer at some point in your career
• Experience leading engineering initiatives aimed at improving speed, quality, and delivery
• Experience leading recruiting initiatives, as well as growing and organizing engineering teams
• You are business focused and consider time, budget and overall company impact in your project work
• You are a strong communicator, empathetic, self-motivated, and have a positive attitude 
• You identify and solve problems with little or no guidance
• You demonstrate self-awareness and a desire to improve

Hey, not everybody checks all the boxes, apply and let us get to know you and your experiences, and we can learn and grow together here at Guru!

Benefits to you

• Competitive salary
• Employee Incentive Stock Option Plan
• Paid Parental, Family & Medical Leave
• Unlimited Vacation
• 401k
• Professional Development Stipend
• Wellness Stipend
• Home Office Stipend
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Thrive After Five: in recognition of our long-tenured employees, Guru celebrates your five year anniversary with a $10,000 personal travel reimbursement
• Remote perks
• Generous medical benefits package
• Guru-sponsored company & team events, no matter where you work

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at talent@getguru.com to request accommodation.