Engineering Manager (Rails Backend)

This role is open only for Québec citizens or people eligible to work and reside in the province of Quebec. No exceptions, no visa sponsorship nor paid relocation, unfortunately. This is a remote position that you may work from anywhere in the province. Bien entendu, on parle français!

At Inspectify, we are the world’s only vertically integrated property inspection and valuation platform. We are backed by some of the most prominent venture firms including Fundrise, Nine Four VC, Foundation VC and YCombinator (S20). Our platform streamlines home inspections and valuation through our network of over 2,000 inspector partners in the US and Canada. Our proprietary platform brings visibility and data regarding the properties owned by our customers.  

Our team is growing and we’re looking for an additional hands-on Engineering Manager to join our tech team. You’ll be responsible for leading, mentoring and coaching a group of engineers while building new features on our inspection platform using Rails and its awesome ecosystem. This is a fully remote job, but we get together from time to time for in person meetings and collaboration sessions (4-5 times a year). Despite having an hands-on component, you’ll be managing direct reports, working on defining and improving our processes, contributing to the roadmap planning and shaping/maintaining our engineering culture, etc. 

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing a group of engineers across our different squads
• Take on exciting technical challenges in our different systems, as we keep building some important projects to support our growth and operational efficiency. You’ll work in Ruby on Rails to build systems, features, APIs, critical background tasks and other cool features that powers our infrastructure and systems. You’ll have direct reports and ownership of several non-code related initiatives, but there’s an expectation to still contribute as an IC on some features and projects.
• Work with other technical leaders to elevate our engineering standards
• Help us refine our engineering culture and best practices
• Own all parts of the development process, including design, development, testing, code review and ensuring proper release and delivery.
• Identifies technical opportunities and propose ways to improve on them
• Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies that would help Inspectify be more successful.
• Work closely with members of the Product, Operations, Sales and Customer Success team to find answers and solutions for our users and to make our team more efficient.

You Have:

• 7+ years of professional experience in software development as a backend engineer
• 3+ years of professional experience as an Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, etc.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and emotional intelligence that enable you to work closely with Product Managers, engineering peers and other technical leaders
• A desire to elevate the product, technology and your colleagues to the next level
• Strong experience with backend technologies, particularly Ruby on Rails or other similar backend technologies.
• Deep understanding of web technology stacks, including browser caching, cookies, http request, GraphQL, security, and response mechanism, etc.
• Strong experience designing, building and optimizing APIs and relational database schemas.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies and modern application development
• Good knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, Heroku, Github, CircleCI, PostHog, Sentry, New Relic, etc (or equivalent)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to adjust quickly in a dynamic environment

Bonus points if you:

• Have worked in fast growing startups before
• Are familiar with event and/or domain driven design patterns (e.g. domain events).
• Have experience in the real estate industry, PropTech or have built marketplaces before
• Have experience with front-end and mobile technology like Javascript, React, React Native
• Have experience with RabbitMQ or similar AMQP based implementations, ProtoBuf, Redis, Resque or Sidekiq
• Are proficient with CSS and SASS

Package & Benefits:

• 100% remote position
• Very competitive salary and equity package
• Unlimited/flexible vacation policy
• 16 weeks 100% paid maternity/paternity time off policy (complementary to QPIP)
• Complete and generous health insurance (medical, dental, vision, etc), paid for 100%
• Life Insurance, long term & short term disability paid paid for 100%
• Annual professional development stipend for books, seminars, conferences, etc
• Team volunteering opportunities

Our Values

We care about people

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

• Aristotle

We’re a remote first company, and our culture and internal processes are designed with this mindset. We value autonomy, accountability and transparency and we thrive to show it at every level and opportunity presented to us. We believe that success and happiness can be achieved by taking care of ourselves and the ones surrounding us. This obviously includes our customers and partners. 

Understand and connect the system

The Real Estate industry is an evergrowing, fast changing market. We aim at solving a complex problem in an ecosystem where we don’t always control all the inputs and outputs. Our current work and future vision will continuously affect the different elements in the space. From all areas, know how one action or change can affect the ecosystem.

Empower to Own

We strive to set an environment where people can be leaders which means being able to own. Opening up opportunities for trials, experiments, and thought-provoking conversations will bring a sense of impact and value to each and every one of us.

Be consistent with a purpose

We need to have established opinions on different matters. These perspectives that we carry on shows that we should be consistent in our messaging, interactions, and relationships. But, always remember to be intentional and know why we hold onto these thoughts.

Expand your potential

We want to be in a culture that cultivates growth in our employees. Leaders not only lead but also think bigger organizationally. By crafting this type of atmosphere, we want to make sure our customers and partners are getting the best experience.

Be conscious by giving back

We adopt a mentality of creating a cycle of giving back to the community and society. The space we’re in is very tight-knit and Inspectify needs to be at the forefront of being an example in the industry. Being thoughtful of our community reflects that we are conscious of our position in the business.

You can also apply for this position by sending your résumé over to [email protected] .