Engineering Manager

Calendly Calendly · Enterprise · Remote · Engineering

Engineering Manager at Calendly, a company focused on scheduling products. The role involves people leadership, technical execution, and product mindset, partnering with various stakeholders to define and deliver roadmaps. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, identifying technical needs, hiring, and leading agile ceremonies. Requires experience managing software engineering teams and overall development experience in distributed/SaaS applications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Working on products and services aimed at simplifying scheduling for millions of users
  2. Leading agile ceremonies to help your team plan out their work and get it done
  3. Coaching, mentoring, and onboarding new engineering team members
  4. Identifying future technical needs and creating plans to meet them
  5. Providing feedback and guidance to help us continuously grow and scale
  6. Hiring engineers to build out both new and existing squads for the company, with oversight on all team members that get hired onto the squad

Skills

Required

  • managing a team of Software Engineers
  • overall development experience
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • React
  • distributed / data-oriented application development
  • SaaS
  • planning and leading development efforts on large projects
  • leading and mentoring teams
  • driving teams toward big goals with consistent execution
  • communication skills
  • explaining deep technical concepts
  • leading Agile / Scrum ceremonies
  • on-call rotation

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of leading teams that build and operate highly-available products at scale
  • coaching mindset that grows engineers through clear expectations, actionable feedback, and regular performance and career conversations
  • strong technical judgment in distributed, service-oriented architectures and API design, with the ability to navigate trade-offs and guide engineers through complex decisions
  • comfort operating in ambiguous, cross-functional environments — partnering with Product, Design, Security, CX, and GTM to align on priorities and outcomes
  • bias for action, measurable outcomes, and continuously improving how your team executes, ships, and operates its services
  • ability to balance technical execution with team development and stakeholder management
  • 2+ years experience managing a team of Software Engineers
  • 5+ years of overall development experience, ideally using TypeScript, Node.js, and React
  • Deep proficiency with distributed / data-oriented application development and SaaS
  • Experience planning and leading development efforts on large projects
  • Previous experience leading and mentoring teams and driving them toward big goals with consistent execution
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to succinctly explain deep technical concepts
  • Experience leading Agile / Scrum ceremonies
  • Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours
  • Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time