Senior Engineering Manager

About the job

Core Responsibilities

▪ Set career plans for critical tech individual contributors

▪ Build and maintain distributed teams

▪ Manage, and grow individuals on the team

▪ Be an advocate of engineering best practices

▪ Believe and influence an iterative agile approach to everything we do

▪ Build quality into the processes and products we own

▪ Help design, implement and manage software development processes and tools

▪ Define software solutions in close collaboration with the Product team

▪ Define operational metrics and work closely with the Operations team to ensure that all delivered software will continue working seamlessly in Production

▪ Understand the value of true CI/CD and help build and maintain it

▪ Engage and manage 3rd party vendors for Development resource body-shopping

▪ Help evolve our tech stack… microservices built/deployed where appropriate, server-less, modern programming languages such as Java, swift, kotlin, node.js, python, angular, react, containers, NoSql, Dynamic caching

▪ Work collaboratively with other technology and business leaders to ensure that Software Engineering technology is fully leveraged to deliver the business strategy

Key Skills

▪8-12 years of total experience in engineering and technology roles working with product development teams, delivering and building digital products

▪ Experience

– Working with scalable and self-autonomous teams using DevOps CI/CD with focus on team building / forming

– In Agile software development methodologies, processes, and tools

▪ Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree a plus- with professional certifications

▪ At least 2 YoE as people management (i.e., Software Developer Manager,

Engineering Manager, or similar role)

▪ Strong examples of people management, and guiding others – directing, leading and mentoring others

▪ Deep understanding of the digital technology space – with the ability to stay current and up-to-date on trends and technologies

▪ Strong conflict management, and leading by example

▪ Wide experience and understanding of architecture in terms of solution, data and integration

▪ Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management practices

▪ Proven leadership ability, including the skill to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences