Tech Lead / Engineering Manager

Company info

We’re Dimension. We’re doing trash differently. We’re a diverse group, who are united by a shared set of values and goals. We’re committed to performing well as individuals and in teams for the betterment of our company.

Dimension is a sustainability focused tech company in San Francisco. We provide nation-wide B2B waste management services to America’s best companies, including Instacart, Weee!, Sares Regis, Ashley Homestore, Total Energies, and many more. We also provide waste services to federal, state, and local governments. Dimension is backed by notable institutions including Altair Capital, Primavera Capital,  Lightspeed Ventures, and 500 Startups.

Position Description

This Tech Lead/ Engineering Manager role is expected to be a thought leader and a strong engineering executor to a growing engineering team. You will be a people and project manager that will also code: you are expected to do 60% of coding and 40% of people/project managing a distributed and remote engineering team in Asia - the remote team is partially overlapped with PDT schedule.

Dimension is a high pace environment, and we are looking for someone who can adapt to a startup’s fast paced environment. It’s important that you develop a strong sense of ownership towards achieving the specified objectives. It is important that this person demonstrates leadership qualities, high ethical behavior, and strives for cross team collaboration.

• 60% of your time will be spent coding
• 40% of your time will be spent managing the team, delegating tasks, code reviews, devops, collaborating cross functionally
• Manage an offshore engineering team based in Asia
• Work with product + ops team to design, develop, new features, both customer
• Maintain and develop features that involve complex logic (commission, accounting)
• Experience working with external APIs (OpenAI, Stripe, Kustomer, other webhooks)
• Experience with A/B testing and relevant tools (LaunchDarkly, Amplitude specifically)
• Review product specifications and provide feedback (feasibility, priority)
• Maintain, improve and develop features for customer facing portal and internal tooling
• Navigate complex codebase
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality
• Take ownership of devops process (staging, testing, launch, post launch)
• Navigate existing complex codebase and fix bugs

• TLDR: The ideal candidate is a San Francisco based engineer with at least 1 year of management experience, that has worked in a fast growing tech company in a logistics or marketplace industry.
• 4+ years as a software engineer. A mixed experience of big tech + startup is desirable.
• Experience with leading/managing a small team, or leading a project as a tech lead
• Be able to run daily stand-ups at 8 AM, given time zone differences of the offshore team.
• Work from our downtown San Francisco office 3 -4 days a week.
• Experience with full stack development. You are expected to do both front end and back end work.
• Experience with Node.js
• experience with frontend frameworks, specifically ReactJS
• Familiarity with postgres and database design.
• Excellent communication skills, and having an understanding of over-communication in leading a remote team.
• You need to have the proper work authorization - we don't sponsor work visa unfortunately.

• Experience leading a remote or distributed team is highly preferred. Experience in managing or leading both engineers and designer is preferred.
• Experience and passion in sustainability, environmental science and logistics industry is strongly preferred.

• Competitive salary + equity package.
• 401k
• Health benefits
• Great office location to work in downtown San Francisco
• A flat, collaborative, and fun team environment
• Ability to claim and create ownership based on your interest
• Ability to grow your own team

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• Read about case studies of our B2B customers.
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