SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER

When you join the Fountain team, you become part of the leading enterprise solution for frontline workforce management.
Fountain’s automated, customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience for workers, while ensuring organizations can scale and manage their frontline talent.
We’ve helped hundreds of companies like Stitch Fix, GoPuff, Fetch, and sweetgreen to hire, onboard, and manage over 14 million workers in more than 75 countries.
In , we closed $185M in our Series C, led by SoftBank and B Capital.
Join our growing team of highly collaborative, ambitious, and forward-thinking Fountaineers as we empower our hundreds of customers and millions of frontline workers around the world.
Let’s elevate frontline work together.
About the role.
Do you have the entrepreneurial drive?  Have you built great products and even better teams?  Do you love working with great people and solving hard problems?  Do you want to help a great company make it to the next level?  Then, read on my friend.
Fountain delivers a software platform for hiring, managing and retaining a frontline workforce.
Our customers are some of the biggest companies in the world, and now we need the world to help us continue delivering on our goals.
We need to find a great individual to lead and grow our hub in Mexico City.
What you’ll be doing.
Build, manage, and mentor an engineering team Build and maintain great products Grow a spirit of customer empathy across the team Move fast and with purpose, and your teams will do the same Focus on delivery of value, and quick iterations based on real feedback Lead from the middle, rolling up your sleeves and helping the team deliver What you’ll bring.
10+ years working with technologies in our tech stack (Ruby, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Postgres, MongoDB and Elasticsearch, to name a few) Previous experience managing high-performing technical teams Experience solving engineering challenges in large-scale, globally-distributed, event-driven web applications Familiarity with adjacent functions (product, marketing, automation, operations) and a track record of working with them to get things done Use your development expertise to manage projects, priorities, and timelines Mentor other team members while raising the bar on design techniques and coding standards Experience with test driven development and a culture of engineering testing Strong communication skills.
able to effectively communicate to team members, stakeholders and customers across many timezones.
Business proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
Nice to haves Experience deploying applications to a cloud-native environment (we use Kubernetes) Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, we still encourage you to apply for this position.
While we try to be thorough with our prerequisites, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points.
What do you have to lose? Fountain offers an incredibly unique work environment.
We employ a diverse team all over the world.
Each Fountaineer is given the freedom to do their best work from wherever they choose.
We also understand the importance of in-person connections and hold in-person meetings with your team and meet annually as an organization to build our relationships and focus on the future of moving Fountain Forward.
The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a retirement plan.
Some Fountain-wide  perks offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, monthly lunch stipends, annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement, along with home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements.
Fountain is a global employer, so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.
Fountain is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.
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