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Forerunner · 12 hours ago

Full-Stack Technical Lead Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$200K/yr - $240K/yr

1+ years exp

Forerunner is a company dedicated to helping communities adapt to climate change by providing powerful software solutions. The Full-Stack Technical Lead Manager will oversee a team of engineers, ensuring quality software delivery while fostering their career growth through mentorship and technical leadership.

Software

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

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

Qualification

TypescriptReact.jsNode.jsPostgresGraphQLAWSGitGithubSoft SkillsMentorshipCommunication

Required

Permanent residency or citizenship is required

A working understanding of at least a few technologies from the tech stack including Typescript, React.js, React Native, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, git, Github, and AWS

Prior management experience with at least 1-2+ years of experience managing engineers on a small team

Ability to communicate clearly, both in written and spoken forms

Experience in conducting regular one-on-ones and quarterly reviews

Experience in providing mentorship to team members

Experience in preparing for and leading planning meetings

Experience in writing and/or reviewing code and pair programming

Ability to seek out clarity in the face of ambiguity

Experience in reviewing the work of team members with a compassionate yet thorough, critical eye

Ability to build, test, and deploy full-stack software regularly