Engineering Manager Job at High Fidelity, Santa Clara, CA

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  • High Fidelity
  • Santa Clara, CA

Job Description

About You

You possess the rare blend of technical and interpersonal skills needed to provide in-the-trenches daily leadership to a talented group of engineers. You draw out–and occasionally challenge–your team members’ assertions gracefully and constructively, facilitate spirited debates, and guide your engineering team toward smart decisions and polished deliverables. You communicate and collaborate effectively across a wide swath of personalities and experience levels, from college intern CS majors to grizzled veterans. You are a coach, timekeeper, and referee all in one, and bring out the best in your team.

About The Role

High Fidelity is in search of a Software Engineering Manager to help lead a team of six to eight engineers in delivering our next-gen WebRTC-based collaboration application. You'll be the cornerstone, ensuring that we deliver a seamless, scalable, and unique experience to our users.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

  • Provide Technical Leadership and Drive Decision-Making Offer ongoing leadership and direction to the engineering team, ensuring alignment with the company’s product and technical strategy. Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the technology stack, contribute to architectural decisions, and balance the use of third-party solutions with in-house development.
  • Lead Agile Sprint Planning and Closure Oversee agile sprint planning and closing ceremonies, ensuring clear objectives for the team and high-quality task breakdowns to enhance deliverability and project success.
  • Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives and Drive Process Innovation Conduct sprint retrospectives to foster open, collaborative feedback. Utilize insights from these sessions to inform and drive process improvements. Draw out, synthesize, and implement ideas from team members into actionable enhancements, and guide the team in adopting new processes, ensuring smooth transitions and team buy-in.
  • Monitor and Enhance Team Performance Track team and individual performance in sprint completion and task execution using effective metrics and tools. Proactively identify and address areas needing improvement, and implement growth and enhancement strategies for the team and individual members.
  • Contribute to Full-Stack Application Development As time permits, contribute to the development of full-stack application components, including client, server, and database, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
  • Participate in Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Play an active role in the recruitment process.

Position Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
  • Proven experience managing and leading software engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to make informed technical decisions and guide teams towards successful outcomes.
  • Technical experience with WebRTC SDKs and APIs, specifically for audio, video, and data channels.
  • Experience in integrating third-party WebRTC components or services.
  • Demonstrable experience building scalable client/server web applications.

Bonus Points

  • Prior experience in developing collaboration tools or platforms
  • Audio processing in C++ or WebAudio/WASM
  • WebRTC experience on iOS, Android, or Unity

High Fidelity Perks

  • Fully remote work environment
  • Competitive base salary
  • Generous medical/dental/vision benefits package
  • Flexible paid time off (PTO) program
  • Stock Options
  • Affable colleagues with extensive technical experience and a passion for great audio

About Us

High Fidelity develops technologies to connect people across physical distances, from our audio technologies to the applications we build to engage distributed participants and knit together online communities. We work on ways to bridge remote interactions through technology.

The company’s next chapter will be focused on an application to help companies with distributed workforces of 200+ employees build the casual connections across teams that subtly yet significantly drive both organizational performance and job satisfaction. fun.”

High Fidelity is well-funded by established venture funds–True, Vulcan, IDG, Breyer, and others. Joining our small seasoned team will provide opportunities to participate in foundational decisions and to see the impact of your input through frequent releases. You will have the opportunity to interact directly with customers and iterate based on user feedback and to work with experienced engineers and designers on innovative technologies.

We encourage serious applicants with the required skills and experience to submit a cover letter and resume.

Job Tags

Work experience placement, Casual work, Internship, Remote job, Flexible hours,

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