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Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly, and we’re still in the midst of exciting product growth — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.
About the team & opportunity
What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team? We make things possible for our customers through innovation.
We need an Engineering Manager who leads through technical depth and people expertise. Your team of engineers is focused on building platform services that our product teams depend on daily. Your work directly empowers our product engineering teams to ship features more efficiently and reliably.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience managing teams that build distributed systems and data-intensive services
- Strong technical background in platform engineering where your customers are other engineering teams
- Track record of scaling infrastructure that handles high throughput and maintains strict reliability standards
- Ability to balance technical execution with team development and stakeholder management
You will work directly with the Senior Manager of Engineering for our Platform Services Group.
This role requires someone with strong system architecture comprehension who is able to navigate system design tradeoffs and coach engineers through complex technical challenges while managing team performance and cross-functional dependencies.
A day in the life of an Engineering Manager at Calendly
As a Manager at Calendly, you have the chance to mentor and grow some of the best and brightest engineers in the world. This role will work alongside our other Engineering teams to make Calendly even simpler and more powerful for our user base. We are seeking a versatile technical leader who relishes the chance to work on impactful technology and can help accelerate and empower our development teams while helping us create the future of scheduling.
We’re looking for someone with previous experience in SaaS and with cloud technology. Top candidates bring clarity where there is ambiguity, and can work autonomously to research and uncover solutions. If chosen for this role, you’ll be responsible for mentoring, coaching, and planning for the future of your team. At Calendly, you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact on the quality and development of a product impacting millions.
On a typical day, you will be:
- 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
- Working on tooling and services aimed at empowering product engineering teams to ship features quickly and confidently
- Coaching, mentoring, and onboarding new engineering team members
- Ensuring the career development, satisfaction, and productivity of the engineers on your team
- Identifying future technical needs and creating plans to meet them
- Providing feedback and guidance to help us continuously grow and scale
What do we need from you?
- 2+ years experience managing a team of Software Engineers
- 5+ years of overall development experience (you will be specifically managing a team that owns tooling and services using Golang and Ruby / Rails)
- 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
- Previous experience working within a dynamic engineering organization
- Bonus for experience working on a Platform-oriented team where internal teams are your customers and shared tooling and services are the focus
- 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
The ranges listed above are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.
Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:
- Tier 1: San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, NY
- Tier 2: Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Miami, FL, and all other cities in CA.
- Tier 3: All other locations not in Tier 1 or Tier 2
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please let your Recruiter know when first connecting with them. Calendly is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are located in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia, you will not be eligible for employment. Note that all individual roles will specify location eligibility.
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