About the team & opportunity
What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team?
We make things possible for our customers through innovation.
Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who has a strong background in people management, technical strategy and execution, and the ability to help grow our organization. You will work directly with the Senior Director of Engineering in our Ecosystems group, and will be building a best-in-class set of APIs that can enable the development of awesome first party, as well as third party, integrations and automations for Calendly. Our goal is to make the external data that our users care about the most available in Calendly, as well as making Calendly available in other tools where our users are spending their time.
A day in the life of a Senior Engineering Manager at Calendly
As a Senior Engineering Manager at Calendly, you have the chance to mentor and grow some of the best and brightest engineers in the world. This role will work alongside our engineering, product, and design teams to make Calendly even simpler and more powerful for our user base. We are seeking a versatile technical leader who relishes the chance to work on impactful technology and can help accelerate and empower our development teams while helping us create the future of scheduling.
Top candidates bring clarity where there is ambiguity and can work autonomously to research and uncover solutions. If chosen for this role, you’ll be responsible for mentoring, coaching, and planning for the future of your team. At Calendly, you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact on the quality and development of a product impacting millions.
On a typical day, you will be working on:
- Hiring engineers to build out both new and existing squads for the company, with oversight on all team members that get hired onto the squad
- Solving problems for millions of users, from local businesses to our largest enterprise customers
- Driving initiatives to ensure the quality, performance, security, and scalability of the APIs and integrations, following best practices and standards
- Coaching, mentoring, and onboarding new engineering team members
- Ensuring the career development, satisfaction, and productivity of the engineers on your team
- Identifying future technical needs and create plans to meet them
- Providing feedback and guidance to help us continuously grow and scale
- Contributing to the development of a vibrant ecosystem of third party developers that can help us build impactful integrations with Calendly
What do we need from you?
- 5+ years experience leading a team
- 10+ years of overall development experience (Ruby on Rails is preferred, however other languages such as Python, Go, and TypeScript are accepted)
- Experience with API development and building first party as well as third party integrations
- Experience planning and leading development efforts on large projects
- Previous experience leading and mentoring teams and driving them toward big goals with consistent execution
- Previous experience in a service-oriented architecture; bonus if you have experience migrating a monolith application into services
- You are an excellent communicator who can succinctly explain deep technical concepts
- Experience leading Agile/Scrum ceremonies
- Previous experience working within a balanced engineering and product team
- Experience with MVC frameworks for backend development
- Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
What’s in it for you?
Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at recruiting@calendly.com .
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The ranges listed below are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.
Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:
- Tier 1: San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, NY
- Tier 2: Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Miami, FL, and all other cities in CA.
- Tier 3: All other locations not in Tier 1 or Tier 2
