Engineering Manager

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world's wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are _everywhere_.

Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk.

We're proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture.

Since the company's inception in January 2020, Oyster has :

• Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries
• Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that's 60% female
• Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class
• Raised $150 million in Series C funding at a valuation of over $1 billion!

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we're just getting started!

If you want to change the world with Oyster _and_ be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we'd love for you to apply!

• The role

As an engineering manager at Oyster, you will be responsible for managing a team - or two small teams - of developers.

• Location
• Anywhere within timezones GMT-8 to GMT+3.

While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster's positions are fully remote and you can work from home.

Forever.

• You will
• Recruit, hire, lead, and grow one or more engineering teams.
• Build a supportive, egoless culture focused on collaboration, open communication, and valuing outcomes over output.
• Live by, and champion, our values to make the team excellent to work in and work with.
• Encourage active participation in all phases of the project lifecycle, share essential context with the team, remove blockers for the team, and provide visibility to stakeholders.
• Partner directly with Product and Design to deliver high quality projects and experiments predictably.
• Continuously improve and optimize team processes to improve productivity.
• Grow and sharpen your team with hiring, performance reviews, mentoring, and helping plan career growth.
• Champion good practices within your team to improve the product, tooling, team, and processes.

development patterns, security-minded thinking, tech debt management, TDD, iterative thinking.

• Improve global hiring for the world by working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Operations, Finance, Legal, and more.
• You may be a good fit if you
• Have prior experience managing one or more teams, ideally in a hyper-growth environment.
• Have several years of software development experience.
• Have successfully worked with geographically distributed teams.
• Excel with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, while having the ability to dig into technical details to inform decisions.
• Enjoy working with a diverse set of individuals from various countries, backgrounds, and areas of expertise.
• Have excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
• Are interested in helping businesses hire globally, making the team member experience a pleasure for everyone, and helping the team and world learn to work in a simpler, more asynchronous way.

You are _not_ expected to have expertise across all areas.

We have an amazing team who can help you develop skills in new areas, strengthen skills you already have, and who are waiting to learn new things from you!

• What you'll be working on

You'll be a member of one of our product teams, working on :

• Hiring automation.

Hiring a team member cross-border should be quick and frictionless, but there are too many barriers to that today.

Our teams on hiring automation create processes that integrate structured knowledge on hiring from dozens of countries into a seamless experience.

• HR tools for distributed teams.

Companies are more and more building global, distributed teams, and they'll need the tools to enable them to work effectively.

• Payroll and payments.

We run complex payroll jobs that combine accounting information from over eighty countries, as well as collecting payments and disbursing millions of dollars of salary to employees every month.

• Enterprise platform features.

Our customers demand high quality security, access, communication, and auditing features.

• Growth teams.

We are growing quickly and have teams devoted to experimenting in growth hacking.

• Engineering at Oyster

We seek out and build up engineers and leaders who have strong software engineering fundamentals, value transparency, promote knowledge sharing, and thrive in a distributed, remote-first, and asynchronous working environment.

Finally, we live and champion our company values.

• We elevate talent
• We hire our team (using our own product!)

and continue to grow their abilities through mentorship, challenges that stretch and strengthen their skills, and giving them room to explore.

• We build trust
• We are