Engineering Manager

• Lead 2 engineering teams - Content Creation and Content Engagement, creating an environment where engineers can do deep, focused work while staying connected
• Partner with Product and Design partners to shape technical direction, balance speed with quality, and guide architectural decisions that support long-term scalability
• Model Buffer values in your decision-making and communication, setting the cultural tone for both teams
• Develop your engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, actionable feedback, and career development conversations that help them grow their skills and advance
• Build a strong feedback culture within the teams where growth is continuous, expectations are clear, and engineers feel supported to take risks and learn
• Lead with technical depth by maintaining strong context on architectural challenges, participating in technical discussions, and making informed tradeoffs
• Manage team operations, including capacity planning, hiring, on-call practices, and removing blockers
• Track and communicate team health metrics to ensure sustainable performance and make data-informed decisions about team structure and processes
• Coordinate within Engineering Leadership group (other Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers) on shared initiatives, represent team needs across the organization, and build trust and alignment
• Take shared ownership of product quality and system health by ensuring sustainable practices, and balancing technical debt with feature delivery

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineers with demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams that deliver high-quality software in small iterations and reduce cycle time
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage in architectural discussions, code reviews, and technical strategy
• Ability to see patterns across teams and make architectural decisions that create leverage
• Experience leading remote teams, balancing synchronous collaboration with written communication across time zones
• Track record of coaching engineers, providing regular feedback, holding team members accountable, and creating fulfilling work experiences
• Experience working closely with Product and Design partners, bringing forward feasibility considerations and collaborating on lean ways to deliver outcomes
• Experience hiring and onboarding engineers and building strong engineering teams and retaining talent
• Project management strength to lead teams to ship MVPs, get early data and feedback, and make customer-centric decisions
• Personal connection to content creation, social media, or creator tools
• Strong written communication skills for distributed collaboration
• Growth mindset, humility, comfort with ambiguity, and commitment to continuous learning

It's a big plus if you used Buffer before and care about the experience

• Competitive salary
• Work remotely
• 4-Day workweeks
• Health insurance
• Home office setup ($1000)
• Growth mindset fund
• New laptop
• Unlimited free books
• AI tools stipend
• Flexible time off
• Savings plan (with 3% company match)
• Profit sharing
• Family leave (16 weeks, fully paid)
• Family support fund
• Working smarter stipend
• Sabbaticals (6-week break, fully paid, after every 5 years)