Engineering Manager

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 170 - 210

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Caribou

At Caribou we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on whats most important to them. Today less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their monthly auto expenses as well as increase the predictability of those expenses over time. We do this by building technology to pair customers with community banks and credit unions and ushering them through the process quickly. On average our drivers save $151/month on their car loans while protecting their investment long term.

Caribou is led by leaders from the technology automotive and finance industries. Were proud to be backed by a great team of investors including QED Investors Goldman Sachs Moderne Ventures Accomplice Link Ventures Motley Fool Ventures and others.

What youll do

Provide stewardship over the codebases youre responsible for striving for flexibility and agility in the face of expanding and changing business requirements
Run the SDLC for your team efficiently and effectively delivering great software sprint by sprint
Continuously improve the processes and practices of your engineering team ensuring theyre doing their best work
Partner with Product Owners to provide market and business context to your teams maintaining a collaborative environment for product design and evolution
Mentor and coach the engineers on your team to expand their skills and advance in their careers
Play a leadership role in defining and evolving how Engineering works at Caribou

This role is remote from a state where Caribou operates with a preference for the Chicago IL Denver CO or Phoenix AZ areas and can work from our Denver or Chandler offices if desired.*

Interview Roadmap:

Recruiter phone interview (30 mins)
At-home coding assessment (60 mins)
Hiring Manager video interview (60 mins)
Final interview loop (combined 4 hrs scheduled across 1-4 business days):
- System Design Interview (60 mins)
- Leadership & Support (60 mins)
- Partnership & Delivery (60 mins)
- Team Development & Performance Manager (60 mins)

What we look for

Prior work leading engineers maintaining and improving web applications and back-end integrations in a Ruby on Rails codebase
Customer-focused leaders with an understanding of and passion for well-crafted software
Driven life-long learners committed to expanding their skills in both leadership and engineering
Full-stack understanding of production software systems from hosts and HTML to containers and caches to databases and DNS to runtimes and REST
Collaborative people-first leaders who lead with context over command and control
Leaders with a commitment to bringing out the best in those around them as a measure of their success

How we will take care of you

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes:

Competitive compensation: $170-210k
Eligible for annual performance-based incentive
Equity options
401(k) retirement plan
Generous paid time off including Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents
Exceptional benefits including highly subsidized medical dental and vision plans and fully company-paid mental health disability and basic life insurance
Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs (with Caribou HSA contributions) FSAs supplemental life and health legal and pet insurance
Up to $1000 per year for eligible professional development expenses

Our Core Values

We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values which guide our work and how we work together.

Give a damn. What were doing matters. We show up determined to deliver results and we love it.
Velocity. Were intentional about where were going and we race towards it.
Make the assist. We have diverse strengths. We offer and ask for help so we all win.

Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation pregnancy status marital status military or protected veteran status genetics or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.

*Caribou does not currently have employee operations in AL AK AR CT DE GA HI IA ID IN KS KY ME MI MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV OH OK PA RI SC SD TN UT VT WV WY.

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Required Experience:

Manager

About CaribouAt Caribou we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on whats most important to them. Today less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their mo...