Engineering Manager, SoWork
Virtual co-working platform
Job no longer available
Virtual co-working platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To move work from the Earth to the Cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Prior engineering leadership experience, ideally in a high growth startup or unicorn software company
- Leadership experience is a plus, tbh, but substantive experience shipping code as part of a team, with eyes all over the SDLC is really critical
- Strong organizational leadership skills demonstrated publicly in the past, or through referencing
- Strong knowledge of technical design/architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Contemporary knowledge about industry trends, best practices, and change management
What the job involves
- Help unlock the engineering team through mentorship, management, code reviews, best practice development, and team bonding activities
- You will **not** be responsible for jumping into write code, but likely could if necessary (and definitely could at some prior point in your life), with hard earned battle scars to prove it
- Use your well honed empathy skills to drive engineering delight, which largely comes from reducing waste to 0, empowering coding super heros to use their super powers, & grow themselves in the process, technically and otherwise
- Use your leet prioritization skills to ensure that the Engineering team is working hand-in-hand with Product and Design to deliver what our customers rely on us for, in the right order
- Be creative in solving technical problems, and comfortable breaking ground and creating new solutions
- Be equally creative in listening to feedback from engineers, from Product management, and helping find ways to move us forward, together, in scalably effective ways
- Commit to improving yourself every day
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Remote working is becoming the norm for many companies, but without the right tools, communication and connectivity between team members can suffer. SoWork solves this problem with its first-of-its-kind metaverse for coworking.
SoWork's founders first met playing World of Warcraft. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they decided to leverage their knowledge of gaming to create a virtual communication tool for teams. By offering a beta version to companies such as Tinder, the team has been able to rapidly scale its R&D and lengthen its lead over would-be competitors. This includes big-name coworking tools like Slack, which is transitioning from a messaging facility to a virtual HQ.
SoWork has continued to gain traction even as companies begin to move back into the office. Despite this return to in-person workplaces, the company is banking on a larger transition into digital co-working. It believes that virtual offices will soon offer more employee perks and advantages, and companies (even those in growth stage) will be eager not to miss out.
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2021
$15m
SEED
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Personal and professional growth is the thing we take the most seriously. You're going to be challenged every single day. Better buckle up
- Weekly games and massive, company-wide Haxball tournaments
- A super-fast-moving, nimble, high-growth team where 1 day feels like 1 week elsewhere
- A globally distributed team: we span 9 timezones from the North American west coast to southeastern Australia
- Teammates with insane, wild, brilliant ideas working in a cross-functional environment that supports getting those ideas into the wild
- Memes, memes, and more memes. Also, memes
- In case it wasn't clear: you can work from anywhere. We'll be jelly if you're on a floatie above a coral reef. Pics or it didn't happen tho
- Oh, and yes, all those other typical perks: competitive compensation, benefits (health, vision, dental), 401k - the works
Company HQ
Lower Allston, Boston, MA
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Founders
Vishal Punwani
(CEO & Head of Growth)Previously worked as a Consultant at the International Telecommunication Union, and is Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard.
Mark Liu
(Chief Architect)Previously worked as a Solution Architect at Windows. Previously served as SoWork's CTO.
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