Senior Engineering Manager (Elasticsearch)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (hirify.globalsearch): Leading a globally distributed team focused on building search functionality within hirify.globalsearch with an accent on high quality and innovative feature development. Focus on roadmap development, team mentorship, and fostering a collaborative culture.

Location: Must be based in Canada

Salary: $154,000—$243,600 CAD

Company

hirify.global, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

What you will do

• Manage, mentor and lead a globally distributed team of go engineers working on search functionality within hirify.globalsearch.
• Lead the efficient delivery of search enhancements with regular releases of hirify.globalsearch, ensuring high quality and innovative feature development.
• Work with product managers to define requirements.
• Build roadmaps and lead prioritization; balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast-paced engineering team.
• Support the development and training of direct reports through regular 1:1s and career conversations.
• Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and consensus based decision-making.

Requirements

• Experience leading distributed teams of software engineers.
• Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to drive conversations across multiple teams to a conclusion.
• You know and care about writing performant software and have traced and fixed performance issues yourself.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently.

Nice to have

• Significant experience as a hands-on software engineer.
• Experience working in Lucene or Solr.
• Open Source experience.
• Prior professional exposure to hirify.globalsearch.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching financial donations and service hours for volunteer projects.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.