Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Leader, you will be leading a team of engineers and be responsible for their growth, deliveries, and retention. Your key responsibilities include:

• Deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Review architecture and provide technical guidance for engineers and help with estimations.
• Drive strict adherence to industry-standard development practices related to code quality, testing, infrastructure management and build processes.
• Continuously identify tools and process improvements needed to help the team function better.

KNOWLEDGE & REQUIREMENTS

Use your experience of agile development practices and work closely with the product team in running a self-managed agile team. Coach and mentor all team members wherever necessary.

• Support in sprint planning and resource management while planning client commitments.
• Communicate with both client and internal stakeholders to unblock development where needed.
• Mentor, motivate and inspire your team by providing regular feedback and working closely with them to align their personal goals with that of the entire team.
• Willing to get hands-on with helping developers resolve issues and build POCs where required.
• Contribute to growing the team by helping with the talent acquisition processes. Develop and grow leadership and talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies in a fast paced, competitive environment.

Extra awesome:
• Ability to deliver on the product strategy and prioritization while managing multiple client requests.
• Ability to inspire and motivate the engineering team to work together as a cohesive and highly productive unit, demonstrating excellent emotional intelligence.
• Ability to set and drive the big picture strategy while providing detailed technical guidance to the team, and a sense of urgency in driving execution.
• Excellent business acumen and the ability to work cross-functionally to drive business initiatives and partnerships with external vendors.

Technical Skills:

• Highly motivated, self-learner, and technically inquisitive
  • High level of experience with multiple server-side programming languages (Java with Spring Boot experience preferred)
  • High level of experience with multiple client-side programming languages (JavaScript React experience preferred)
  • High level experience developing, deploying, and supporting REST services and microservices.
  • Experience using cloud services for concepts such as storage and compute. Capable of applying infrastructure as code practices. Experience with Kubernetes and AWS preferred.
  • Experience with relational databases, non-relational databases, and messaging systems.
  • Provides a positive impact at a company level: influences cross-team initiatives, mentors teammates, drives innovation, guides projects with unclear outcomes, appropriately balances team autonomy with organizational guidance
  • Excellent track record of collaborating with stakeholders. Experience proposing new product offerings. Actively contributes to company-wide strategies using industry knowledge and foresight.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience: 8-10 years of hands-on experience in Engineering roles, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or management capacity.
• Education: Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.