Belfry Engineering Manager

About Belfry and the Role

At Belfry, we're revolutionizing how the $50 billion Security Guard Services industry operates. Our mission is simple but ambitious: to empower both back-office teams and field officers with the tools they need to excel through our state-of-the-art operating system.

We are looking to hire an NYC based engineering manager to keep us building efficiently as we continue to scale our product and team. Our new EM will own the field operations and human capital management product pods and will report directly to Belfry’s CTO.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and manage a team of engineers, focusing on both their day-to-day responsibilities as members of the engineering department and also their career growth, interpersonal and leadership skills, and future-facing goals

• Have real ownership around your work and what your team builds, working closely with our product and design team to create the right solution for our users. Plan, lead, and deliver products and projects that focus on those efforts.

• Provide technical oversight of the product to ensure engineers are building in a way that makes Belfry better over time.

• Interview, hire, and retain great engineering talent.

• Continually improve our engineering standards by implementing the right level of process and structure to help us keep shipping fast at scale.
  

About you

• Have at least 5 years of experience leading teams as an Engineering Manager, and at least a total of 8 years experience building software.

• Experience working on engineering teams at different stages of growth, as Belfry continues to grow you’ll need to adapt and grow your team in response.

• Experience working within environments that rely heavily on automation, CI, and CD concepts to rapidly deliver, measure, and iterate on products and features

• Passionate about building and retaining teams of individuals that are highly motivated and excited about the work they’re contributing to.

• Extremely strong technically and want to keep close to the code and system we are building. You are not expected to be a primary contributor to our codebase, but you should be able to review PRs, debug issues using our telemetry, and provide technical guidance for your team.

• You want to solve real problems for our users. Technology does not exist in a vacuum and ultimately exists to serve our users. You want to play a role in making sure we are solving these challenges for our customers in an efficient and high quality manner.

• You want to work in a fast-paced startup environment where you can rapidly deliver value to our users. We give a high degree of autonomy to our team and want candidates who thrive in taking initiative and moving quickly in order to drive outsize impact on Belfry.
  

Our Tech Stack:

Experience is a plus, but if not we’ll be excited to help you learn.

• Python + fastAPI

• React / Next.js

• React native + Expo

• Postgres

• Render

Benefits

• An incredible team with fantastic experience and track record

• Highly competitive salary

• Significant equity in a high growth start-up w/ a clear path to significant outcomes

• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage

• Unlimited PTO (and strong encouragement to use it!) + 11 paid holidays