About XWP

Who You Are

• Your natural bias is towards servant leadership and empowering your colleagues to solve problems well.
• Your active listening skills and empathy cultivate psychological safety in your workplace.
• You are fueled by a balanced blend of humility and confidence.
• You appreciate order and efficiency, but have an action-oriented approach.
• You have an appetite for learning and self-development.
• You value autonomy and have the self-management skills to operate dependably in a fully-remote role.

What You’ve Done

• This isn’t your first time managing a team of engineers. You’ve spent more than a few years developing, coaching, and mentoring developers and growing technical leaders
• You’ve actively participated in hiring and onboarding new engineers into agile development teams and worked to build and document scalable processes and documentation.
• Your hands-on background in software engineering and architecture has prepared you for the technical requirements of this role. 

What You’ll Do Here

• Champion learning & development opportunities for our engineering team
• Cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing, mentoring, and professional growth
• Coach our engineering team on personal effectiveness, great teamwork, and wise leadership

• Guide the selection of engineers for Delivery teams
• Coordinate the continuing development of our code challenges, technical interview approach, and overall evaluation of engineers in the recruitment process.
• Grow our reputation as experts and as a desirable place to work, making positive connections with future team members

• Help ensure engineering teams are set up for success on projects
• Provide proactive support to engineering leaders to help ensure project success and coach to resolution when they escalate problems for support
• Maintain focus on coaching and empowering teams with the support and tools they need to solve their own problems well and grow their problem-solving abilities

• Facilitate (and complete as necessary) engineering estimations (velocity-based) in collaboration with Head of Delivery to support the sales process and set teams up for success
• Support Head of Delivery and Sales Team in creating a great client experience and loyalty and resolving client-experience issues

What Success Looks Like

• Projects delivering to our engineering standards and client expectations without needing significant support from outside the team
• Engineers feeling they have meaningful career and professional development opportunities at XWP
• Effective estimation of engineering effort for projects, reducing surprises and resetting expectations early and smoothly when needed
• Attracting and effectively evaluating the engineers we need
• Having the trust and confidence of the engineering team
• Leading by example and treating others with respect

Payscale & Benefits

• Trust and support from your colleagues (we look out for each other and work together towards our shared goals and vision)
• The rewards of a highly collaborative culture (we’re a team, not a working group)
• The joys of remote work done right: schedule flexibility, skip the commute, more time for family and interests outside of work
• The chance to play an important part in helping XWP achieve its full potential and make a meaningful difference for our clients, team members and the open web.
• An expected salary range of USD $125,000 to $150,000, profit sharing, paid leave, Unleash+ allowance of $2,500 per year to enrich your life, and other benefits.

Are you intrigued?