Are you a creative, customer-centric software engineering manager that wants an opportunity to have a real impact on a growing B2B product? Do you enjoy being a part of the whole development process from start to finish? Are you looking to break out of your current lane and broaden the impact your work can have on a business? Do you want to work in an environment that fosters and looks to align your passions with overall team goals? Do you want to work in an entrepreneurial environment that is flexible and focused on results? Do you want to be a part of a team that loves what they are building and is delivering awesome software that customers love to use? If so, we might have the perfect opportunity for you!

Crelate, a fast-growing Kirkland-based startup with over 1,400 business customers, is searching for engineering managers to join our growing engineering organization. You will be an important part of our product team with large say in how we deliver customer delight, how the software is built, what tradeoffs we should make, and what the future looks like.

Crelate’s mission is to help more people, connect with better opportunities, more often. To do this, we are building the fastest, easiest, and most flexible recruiting and talent engagement software on the market, and we need your help!

Responsibilities of this leadership position include:

• Manage, and mentor team members regarding architecture, customer value and best practices.
• Review and coach team on project designs for design review presentations
• Initiate, lead, and deliver improvements in the effectiveness of engineers
• Manage a development team as if it is a small startup in a bigger ecosystem with broad cross-team mindset.
• Own a module and/or feature sets for the long term, looking to continuously innovate within and alongside them.
• Analyze feature sets for implementation efficiency and performance
• Manage the team appropriately and efficiently regarding product goals and deliverables.
• Dive in and write code, when and where appropriate. Great Development Managers lead from the front, not from the rear.
• Maintain a high and rising high bar for developers on your team through architecture and design review, estimation, code reviews, pair programing, education, and other novel practices.
• Participate in the daily standups, drive your team’s features to done, and collaboratively work in a team environment.
• Learning new architecture and design principles to keep your skills current.
• Grow and scale your abilities as the company grows.
  

Requirements of this position:

• Data-driven. You use data to guide decisions and optimize results.
• Passion for product. You love being part of a product; you find ways to use our product every day, you will support customers use of our product. This inspires you to build great features.
• Customer centricity. You are passionate about customers as people. You’ll build a deep understanding of their needs by speaking with and supporting them. With this, you will create better features that help our customers succeed and our company to achieve its mission.
• Unwavering curiosity. You love to learn and better yourself and the people and things around you. You prefer direct feedback and use it to better yourself and others. Not knowing something and growing motivates you to new heights. You have a growth mindset.
• Organized and an eye for detail. You have excellent organizational skills and pixel-perfect attention to detail.
• Communication. You have excellent presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Resourceful. You care about our company’s resources like they were your own. You know that perfect is the enemy of done.
• You get it done. In the face of uncertainty, and multiple competing priorities you have a bias for action. Through collaboration and creative solutions, you deliver success.
  

Desired Experience:

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of management experience
• Extensive and robust experience in backend web application development: expert code development, service-oriented architecture, queueing theory, caching, CICD, security, data architecture, and how to take minimum, viable products to a final system, and taking into consideration the balance between technical debt and competing business priorities
• Strong experience delivering high-availability SaaS services with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind
• Expertise in server-side technologies, such as ASP.NET, C#, Elastic Search, and SQL Server, and in building .NET/C# web-based applications
• Proven experience with owning or driving customer-centric, large-scale services, components, or features from start to end.
• Software pattern-based design principles (gang of four) and related concepts, such as dependency injection, separation of responsibilities, and clean coding
• Experience with Azure or competing cloud technology offerings and cloud-centric design patterns.
• Demonstrable ability to envision and design new features
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science is a plus
• Expertise in web development technologies like HTML, CSS, TypeScript, etc.
• Familiarity with hyper-modern frameworks, such as web assembly, Blazor, gRPC, and the hunger to keep up to date.
  

We can offer you:

• Results driven culture, with reasonably flexible work hours
• Plenty of opportunities to learn, grow your career, and wear lots of hats
• Startup life – flexible, relaxed, yet high stakes work environment
• Awesome coworkers who care about their work and each other
• Competitive benefits including:
• Flexible spending and dependent care accounts
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401k with matching
• Long and short-term disability insurance
• A life insurance policy
• A generous paid leave policy, which includes up to 14 days of office holidays (including a company-wide winter break)
• And for team members who excel, stock option grants!

Our Culture:

We are entrepreneurial, passionate, and relentless about customer success. Everyone on the team talks and works directly with customers. Period. We share a collective passion for success, but not at any cost. We are striving to build an amazing product and a great business. This is no trivial task, and we lean on each other as we iterate our way to success. We value transparency, passion, effort, results, and growth.

We very much look forward to hearing from you and reading cover letters that explain how you are a perfect fit for this opportunity.