Remote Engineering Manager - DOM (Web Standards) or SpiderMonkey (Javascript) Job at Mozilla

Are you excited about web technologies and the applications built on them that enrich users’ lives?  Do you have a passion for helping engineers do their best work and grow in their careers? 

We are hiring for two Engineering Manager positions:

Both of these teams are geographically-distributed, but also have some team members in the Mozilla Berlin office. Working virtually and in the open is the norm.

What you’ll do: 

• Manage a team of software engineers working on storage, background, and system-level Web APIs and standards, or the SpiderMonkey Javascript engine and related standards

• Mentor and guide a diverse team of engineers, inspiring collaboration, growing their careers, and empathizing with their needs

• Owner of the team roadmap, and working closely with platform peer managers, product management and technical leads, to manage risks, balance resources and clear blockers

• Assign work to team members according to individuals abilities, while in parallel collaborating with the team to deliver major initiatives on clear timelines

• Ensure that your team delivers well-planned, high quality, and maintainable software

• Collaborate openly with the open source community

What you’ll bring: 

• 2+ years of hands-on people management experience

• Experienced functional manager with proven skills leading a team of diverse engineers, with the ability to mentor team members that have different skill sets from your own

• Proven project management skills, enabling leadership of the team to deliver and maintain complex software projects

• Software engineering background, providing the experience needed to drive technical decisions and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority, while empowering tech leads as the primary designers and decision makers

• Proficiency with software development lifecycle practices for triage, prioritization, and execution

• Passion for resolving problems, managing risks, leading change and facilitating collaborative decision making

• Commitment to our values:

  • Welcoming differences

  • Being relationship-minded

  • Practicing responsible participation

  • Having grit

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team

• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)

• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together

• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday

• One-time home office stipend

• Annual professional development budget

• Quarterly well-being stipend

• Considerable paid parental leave

• Employee referral bonus program

• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)