Senior Engineering Manager

Company Overview

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance applies the latest technology and best engineering practices to help businesses grow. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Role Overview

Software Engineering is at the core of Right Balance and the Senior Engineering Manager role is key to the company’s overall performance. In this role, you’ll focus on the following:

• Manage an international team of technology professionals: ensuring everyone’s highest level of performance, satisfaction, retention, growth, and motivation.
• Manage relationships with our current clients: ensuring the performance of our hires meets and exceeds client’s expectations, identifying expansion opportunities, doing the best work, and incentivizing new client referrals.
• Supporting hiring: by providing your technical expertise to our hiring team, managing our technical interviewers, and keeping the high bar of our technical screening for new candidates.
• Managing internal software development: by making the right build vs buy technology decisions, ensuring quality software is built on time that solves impactful operational problems of Right Balance.

What’s in it for you

1. Work with top-level CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Directors from US & Canadian companies.
2. Career growth opportunities in a rapidly growing company.
3. Work remotely in the comfort of your home or a shared co-working space.
4. Be able to help innovative companies make a positive impact globally.

Required Qualifications

1. 5+ years of full-time hands-on Engineering Management experience.
2. 3+ years of hands-on Software Engineering experience.
3. 3+ years of Agency experience providing resources for Clients.
4. Advanced spoken and written level of English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
5. Hands-on experience managing a technology team of 60+ direct & indirect reports.
6. Ability to have 6+ hours overlap with the US Pacific Time zone.

Nice to haves

1. Hands-on coder today (even if rusty).
2. Hands-on experience interviewing engineers, including live coding and architecture.
3. Experience working with US-based companies.
4. Startup experience.
5. Experience working with a sales team.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, and the latest technologies to help companies scale. Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years.

While the startups portion of our client portfolio is strong, we also have private equity-backed companies, as well as stable & profitable non-funded companies.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 60+ people spread out across the globe.

What are your core values?

• Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.
• Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.
• Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.