Engineering Manager

About Buoy Software

Our mission is to deliver the best experience possible to as many donors of blood products (such as plasma) as possible, in as many communities as possible. We use our understanding of blood product donation and the industry’s regulations and pair them with our extensive consumer product experience to enrich the lives of our members and improve health outcomes for patients everywhere.
In an industry that hasn’t seen innovation in more than two decades, Buoy’s software streamlines the donation process allowing our business to promote loyalty while improving efficiency in a donation center.
In turn, the increase in blood product donations improves a supply level that is at an all time low, and allows for blood-product derived biotherapies to continue to evolve, improve, and save lives for those who face life-threatening conditions (i.e. immune deficiencies and blood disorders). Without an increase in blood product donations, we are facing a worldwide health crisis that ultimately results in rationing of care without the proper resources. Buoy Software is excited to be playing more of a role in improving the state of blood products and blood product donations.
We’re working alongside Join Parachute () in the opening of small market donation centers across the country that will create local donation center careers, opportunities to donate blood products, and provide financial compensation for those donations that will have a positive economic
impact in those communities.
The need for blood products is growing rapidly. We want to close the gap in blood product supply and demand by empowering organizations with the right tools. Buoy is the intuitive, data-driven mobile application for donors.
About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at Buoy Software , you lead a fully-distributed team of 6-8 engineers building high-quality software that powers life-saving operations in the blood collection industry. Partnering with product managers who bring project requirements to the team, you own the delivery of that software from requirement through to how it performs in Production.

You view your team as your primary product. You have the technical credibility to help engineers make sound decisions, but your time is spent safeguarding the team's well-being, recruiting strong talent, and setting the team up to deliver. You partner day-to-day with product managers and your team's tech leads, align with engineering leadership (your VP of Engineering and peer EMs) on strategy and priorities, and connect your team to the broader business context and company goals, all while fostering collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Above all, you are a problem solver who takes action rather than waiting for direction.
In this job, you will...
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In the first 30 days, you will…

- Learn how engineering operates at Buoy Software - we’ll help you get accustomed to Buoy’s process, terminology, and code review

- You’ll shadow team members in meetings

- Be introduced to the team - we’ll help you start to get to know your colleagues, point of contacts for various scenarios, understanding dynamics within your team and the broader org

- Go through product demos to start to understand Buoy Software and how it works for both donors experience and donor processing

- Begin meeting with and getting to know your direct manager

In the first 60 days, you will...

- Become more familiar with how we work together as a pod and as a broader organization

- Become more familiar with workflows and processes, and how Buoy Software does agile

- Understand goals for the product over the next 6 - 12 months

- Become more and more autonomous as you work with your team

- Begin to suggest changes and improvements to the product and/or internal processes

In the first 90 days, you will...

- Meet with stakeholders across the broader Buoy Software organization

- Become more familiar with the other de