LawnStarter is a marketplace that makes lawn care easy for homeowners while helping small businesses succeed. We've raised millions in venture funding and are growing fast. Are you a driven software engineer manager interested in helping give millions of Americans the freedom to spend time on what truly matters?
Working at LawnStarter offers you a chance to help solve the most important challenges in the marketplace industry in an environment that’s fun, collaborative, and innovative. We are looking for smart, creative individuals who are passionate about innovation and aren't afraid to show it.
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What you'll do:
As the Manager of Software Engineering at LawnStarter, you’ll report to the VP of Software Engineering and be responsible for managing cross-functional delivery teams. From understanding the business value to customer satisfaction you will be empowered to drive continuous improvement.
To be successful, you will need to strongly collaborate with Product Management, Product Design as well as all different engineering specialties such as quality engineering, architecture, security, and more on everything from roadmap estimation to project execution and delivery.
You’ll be an integral leader for our team responsible for helping define engineering processes, tracking, and coordinating development initiatives as we deliver on our product roadmap. Our ability to deliver quality software to our customers in a timely, predictable manner will be directly attributable to your capacity to identify and address challenges faced by your teams. And as we continue to grow our business and mature our processes, you’ll play a pivotal role in charting our course.
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What we're looking for:
We’re looking for you if you’re an experienced engineer manager with a blend of people skills and a solid technical foundation. More specifically, we’re looking for:
What makes this role awesome:
1 - One Team, One Heart
We believe the most significant part of any work environment is the team. That’s why we have spent a massive amount of time finding humble, hungry, and smart folks that you will get to work with every single day. That’s a huge part of the reason LawnStarter received the best places to work in 2018 award from the Austin-American Statesman.
2 - Growth
We have a small, tight-knit engineering team willing to give responsibility to anyone that is hungry, humble, and smart. You’ll have opportunities to own large portions of our technical direction for new features, and larger projects. You’ll get to work with a team of passionate engineers who are eager to share our knowledge and experience, and also learn from yours.
3 - High-Performance Distributed Team Environment
We are a diverse and distributed team which are passionate about the empowerment to deliver daily value to our users. We have built our core business with great unit economics and efficiency. What does that mean? Well, that allows us the opportunity to solve new and exciting challenges building innovation leading the market segment we are in. Put simply, we have unique problems being solved in a fast-paced environment but are extremely stable and able to continue investing in the future.
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