Forerunner Industries, Inc. - Full-Stack Technical Lead Manager

• A Full Stack Technical Lead Manager (TLM) at Forerunner is responsible for managing a team of 4-5 engineers on two major fronts: • Managing the quality, correctness, and timeliness of the software their team produces by preparing for and leading planning meetings, writing and/or reviewing code, pair programming, and interacting closely with our design / product counterparts. • Managing the career growth of their reports by conducting regular one-on-ones and quarterly reviews, as well as recurring mentorship where needed. • We expect our TLMs to spend roughly 20-30% of their time heads-down coding, 40-50% of their time on technical leadership duties, like code review and architecture planning, and the remainder 20-40% of their time on their managerial duties. More explicitly, these duties are: • Provide hands-on support to their direct reports to help them grow in their careers, as Forerunner strongly believes in continued learning and up-leveling. To do this, a TLM provides actionable, constructive feedback during recurring one-on-ones, code reviews, quarterly reviews, and mentorship meetings. • Build, test, and deploy full-stack software on a regular basis, working within our frontends, backends, and with the underlying data modeling that underpins them. This means working on a postgres query one day and on a React component the next, all the while making sure all work is adequately tested. • Review the work of your team with a compassionate yet thorough, critical eye. This includes pair-programing with and mentorship of more junior engineers, which means hoping on a Slack or Zoom call with another engineers to collaborate on a particularly thorny piece of code or to talk through different approaches that can be used to solve the problem at hand. • The engineering team gives all engineers the opportunity to plan out and execute on large features, and as a technical lead manager, you'd be responsible for writing the occasional design document as well as providing guidance for and thoroughly vetting those designs of your team, regardless of complexity or domain. • Seek out clarity in the face of ambiguity. As the team’s technical lead manager, you’re responsible for setting the team’s technical direction while collaborating with non-engineering stakeholders to determine the product direction that best satisfies our customer’s needs, particularly during our quarterly planning process. As domain expertise is always hard to come by and benefits from dedicated time and curiosity (especially in a space as nuanced as climate change), we ask our TLMs to always ask questions and follow-up with curiosity. • Communicate clearly, whether in a stand-up meeting, planning meeting, or otherwise. We're a small team working entirely remotely, which requires us to be prompt and clear with both written and spoken communication. • Prior management experience is required for this role, as we’re looking for someone with at least 1-2+ years of experience managing engineers on a small team. • We strongly believe in preparing our TLMs with the context they need to be successful managers before they take on direct reports. Upon hire, they spend 3-4 months becoming familiar with the Forerunner codebase, our engineering processes, and the company’s overall mission and feature set. During this time, TLMs are not directly managing a team so that they have time to ramp up and, after the ramp up period has elapsed, a new team will be spun up with existing individual contributors from other teams.