Engineering Manager

Forage is looking for an Engineering Manager (EM) to join our group of 15+ engineers, most of which are based in Australia. This EM position will be our first hire in the Philippines to lead our Philippine development team which we are hoping to build within 6-8 months’ time!

Join us to have a lasting impact on the millions of people starting their careers, by helping to level the recruitment playing field!

This position suits technical leads or existing engineering managers who are interested in people management and want to grow their leadership skills.

Core responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4-5 Philippine engineers to scope, estimate, build, and deploy product features.
• Support the professional development, growth, and productivity of your team members.
• Contribute to building a healthy culture of inclusion, collaboration, and psychological safety across the Engineering group.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to build our engineering roadmap and establish good engineering practices, processes, and tools.
• Manage dependencies and requests from outside your team
• Share your team's updates and achievements across the company.
• Manage your own working hours to optimize for US West Coast / AU cross-over, and build strong connections with team members based there.
• Own your decisions and take accountability for your team.

What would a normal week look like?

• Define and communicate a clear direction for the team.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to build a prioritized backlog for day-to-day work
• Set up and run team meetings including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, engineering meet-ups, and show and tell.
• Hold regular check-ins with your reports to ensure they are well supported.
• Contribute to the codebase on non-critical tasks, and review pull requests for the team.
• Remove blockers for the team and coach them through challenges.
• Participate in roadmap planning with other engineering leaders.

About you

You are a self-starter who likes to work both autonomously and is confident in leading a small team. You are a self-sufficient engineer and you are comfortable with being one of the first hires in a new region, to help us build and launch a new Forage product!

You have a solid understanding of technology and are proficient in working in JavaScript and Node. You care about code quality and practice automated testing and, as part of our team, you are happy that sometimes your coding takes a back seat in your day job, although you still enjoy spending some of your time on the tools being developed for the team.

You have solid communication skills and are proficient in English. You communicate technical concepts clearly and efficiently while actively participating in team conversations. You also encourage other voices and opinions since you can guide the team to make sound technical decisions.

You have solid leadership experience. You have solid foundations and experience leading an engineering team. You have either been a technical lead or an EM before and want to keep growing your leadership skills.

You care deeply about people and are interested in building teams with a high level of trust and collaboration. You understand that how teams work together has the greatest impact on their overall success, and enjoy helping them work better together.

You are comfortable working in a constantly changing environment and like continuous learning on the job.

Working hours

This role will be working with a team split across Australia and the US West Coast, and may involve starting your working day early to maximize cross-over time and hold 1-1s with team members based in the US.

You can choose to either finish early or take longer breaks during the day, to balance out early starts. We will support you to manage a schedule that works for you.

Since most of the engineering and product team is in Australia and the engineering team you will be leading is in the Philippines, the overlaps are mostly manageable and the earlier starts to accommodate US counterparts are less frequent.

When international travel is more open, you will also have the opportunity to travel to the US / AU to meet your US / AU teammates in person.

Pay and benefits

This is a full-time role.

Forage is a remote-first company and can support working from any location in the Philippines!

Company benefits include:

• Equity compensation plan.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Professional training stipend (for tech courses/resources related to work)
• Flexible work schedule.
• Flexible parental leave policy.
• 20 days of paid vacation leave.
• Access to employee assistance program and professional development fund for all full-time and part-time employees.
• SSS , PhilHealth, Pag-ibig coverage
• (optional) English course / training

EEO

Forage is a small but dynamic team of builders who are passionate about equipping people with the skills to find their dream job. We are a global team, based in offices (and home offices) across Australia, the US, the UK and now the PH!

We celebrate diversity and we want people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences to join our team. You’ll fit in at Forage if you’re different; if you stand out from the crowd; if you have a unique perspective. If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

At Forage, we are proud to be an equal employment opportunity workplace. We embrace diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all. Even if you feel like you only have some of the qualities outlined in a Forage job description but you still feel like you are the right person for the job, we encourage you to apply. We do not discriminate based upon gender, race, ethnicity, religion, color, age, religion, disabilities, sexual orientation, or other applicable characteristics. Employment decisions are purely based on qualifications, skills, and business needs.

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