Summary
What: Take the lead on ‘people and process’ as we scale our remote engineering team from 10 to 50 engineers and beyond - goal-setting, sprint planning, remote work culture, team structure, recruitment, personal development.
Why: Building core infrastructure in education that fosters community requires close-knit collaboration between mission-driven builders from all over the world.
Who: A caring manager (25+ people) who deeply understands dev processes and has worked in a remote environment.
The tools you’ll use: Empathy, thoughtfulness and a structured mind.
What is Aula: Remote-first 25-person startup (from 11 nationalities!) building digital campuses for universities - think 'Slack for education'. We recently raised $4.2m.
About you
Traits we value:
- Collaborative spirit: team above ego.
- Curiosity: excited about exploring and learning.
- Mission-driven: you care deeply about building great products that affect people’s lives.
- Empathy.
- Excitement about contributing to OSS projects.
- You preach modern technology and patterns.
Experience we value:
- You have managed a team of 25+ people (and really enjoyed it!)
- You have been in startup environments.
- You have a deep understanding of dev processes (git flow, task management amongst devs, code management, technical debt, refactoring)
- You have built teams before - recruitment and onboarding.
- You have managed distributed teams.
The role
Take the lead on people and process to turn the engineering team into the most productive and creative in the world as we grow from 10 to 50 engineers and beyond.
In practice that means:
Process:
- Help define and execute engineering and company-wide OKR’s
- Sprint planning
- Testing and documentation
- Work closely with our product managers (right now that’s just our co-founder Adrian) and our CTO, Oliver, to define technical and product roadmaps.
People:
- Build out the Aula-equivalent of Spotify’s Squad framework. Currently, we’re structured this way.
- Strengthen our culture of trust and collaboration between engineers and teams across multiple time zones.
- Scale a world-class remote-first engineering team alongside our People Operations team on recruitment.
- Iterate on our model for personal development (some investors wrote about it).
- Lead, mentor and coach a mix of new and seasoned engineering managers running widely distributed teams.
Technical skills
Ideally, your skillset and interests would be split between ‘management’ and ‘technical work’ in a ratio of around 7:3.
You’ll be involved with:
- Supporting tech leads in developing and deploying top quality software
- Be part of the decision making around the product and technical roadmap based on the inputs you gather from the engineering team
- Allocate software and technical resources to increase team productivity
About us
Aula is a communication platform for education.
Think ‘Slack for education’: consumer tech on the front-end yet complex infrastructure on the back-end.
We’ve built Aula because we believe digital learning infrastructure should encourage community and participation-based learning.
See what one of our early adopters think of Aula here.
Our team
We’re a diverse bunch of people from all over the world (Denmark, Philippines, France, Albania, Georgia, Pakistan, Sweden, India, UK and US) that care deeply about making educational experiences more engaging.
Our engineers have previously lead teams that have built things like the Georgian version of Youtube (myvideo.ge with 2.5 million monthly unique viewers) and a novel way to share and view 3D medical images (TissueStack).
You’ll have regular one-on-ones, set your own personal development targets to develop you both as an engineer and a leader, and occasionally jump on a video call and share a ‘remote meal’ while a team member speaks about a topic they care about.
Our tech stack
We’ve explained our stack in detail in this blog post, but here’s a quick overview of what we’re building with:
- React (and React Native)
- Microservices backends with Node.js and AWS
- Docker
- ES6/7 Javascript
- Mongo, Redis and others dbs
Look forward to hearing from you,
The Aula team
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