Engineering Manager
Mason is the only fully managed infrastructure for developing and delivering dedicated devices. We make it easy for anyone to turn an idea into a smart product and ship it to anywhere in the world. Our mission is to enable our customers to create smart and sustainable products on behalf of humanity.
We're looking for the right person to join our close-knit team and help take our foundational product and business to the next level. Mason's core product is mobile infrastructure as a service ("mobile IaaS") -- think elastic, customizable hardware + software + services.
This role is for an Engineering Manager to own and evolve the team that delivers the critical infrastructure powering the Mason Platform. You will be instrumental in helping transform Mason’s back end to be enterprise-ready. The “Fleet team” owns the cloud stack for our Mobile IaaS platform, including the machinery for over-the-air updates of the device firmware, the gateway powering our mobile CI/CD APIs, connectivity services, X-Ray servers, and much more. This is a hands-on management role where you bring your technical, leadership, and people management skills to bear in delivering quality work from a small, close-knit team.
Mason is looking for a complex combination of grit, smarts, ingenuity, and diverse perspectives (and more!) Check out our values and see if they resonate!
What you’ll work on:
- Hire and grow your team to deliver on the critical, expanding enterprise-oriented road map for our Mobile IaaS platform
- Mentor, develop, and grow your engineers through regular 1:1s, career conversations, and stretch goals
- Help develop and implement engineering best practices and rigor
- Interact regularly with product managers, account managers, and technical sales to ensure customer requests, feature work, and bugs are appropriately prioritized
- Define and track your team’s performance metrics and regularly present to leadership
- Work with People Ops to implement performance reviews at company-specified cadence
- Stay on top of the engineering roadmap, and help set priorities for the team in conjunction with product owners
- Always Be Shipping
What you bring to the table:
- Experience leading, mentoring, growing, and nurturing engineers on a team
- A solid technical background in shipping cloud services
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems and scaling services for use by enterprise customers
- Experience going through several successful release cycles delivering software
- War stories
- Experience handling promotions, hiring, exits, conflicts, and everything in between with gusto
- 3+ years in engineering management
Bonus Points for:
- Experience delivering software on AWS with Kubernetes
- Experience building engineering road maps and vision for teams
- Experience in startups
What Mason brings to the table:
• Remote-forward: Employees may choose to work fully remote, in-office, or hybrid.
• Generous PTO & Sick Leave: We want you to take care of yourself with a flexible PTO plan or generous accrued PTO, and added monthly mental health days during the pandemic.
• Parental Leave: Caring for a new child is an exciting time for parents! We offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental & vision insurance for employees and their dependents, we pay ≥ 99% of premiums.
• Fitness & Wellness: Quarterly reimbursement for qualified fitness and wellness expenses.
• Retirement: Tax-advantaged 401(k) account to help you reach your retirement goals.
• FSA: Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter FSAs to set aside tax-advantaged funds for eligible expenses.
• Home Office: Spot bonus & monthly stipend for qualified home office expenses.
• Commuter/Food: Monthly bonus to supplement commuter & food costs.
Full benefits are offered to full-time employees. Part-time employees participate on a limited basis.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Mason
Belonging, psychological safety, and inclusivity unlock a Mason’s full potential. We don’t want Masons to quietly assimilate into a dominant culture and sacrifice a piece of themselves. We want our team members to be seen, validated, and welcomed.
Mason America, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on the Company. Please inform the Company’s personnel representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.