Manager, Product Software Engineering

• As an Engineering Manager, you will be leading an agile team of software engineers and team leads, who create and maintain a wide portfolio of globally distributed products that address core safety needs of industry leaders
• You will drive the performance of the engineering team on architecture, process improvement, collaboration and product quality
• This hands-on leadership role consists of a combination of strategic and operational responsibilities, such as representing your teams in consultation with senior management and closing operational gaps
• The estimated balance between leading the teams and driving change is 50/50
• The Engineering Manager is driving the success of the teams and creates and facilitates an environment in which teams can thrive
• You will supervise all activities associated with the development and improvement of our software products
• You will also drive changes towards improving the performance of the Engineering organisation in domains/areas such as process, team synergy, product quality or architecture

OTHER DUTIES

• Performs other duties as requested by Leadership

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities / Education

• Working knowledge of object oriented software languages
• Ability to listen, discern critical information, provide appropriate empathy, form judgments and recommend solutions based on existing available data
• Team oriented, cooperative and flexible
• Demonstrated ability to collaboratively work with a wide range of people at all levels of the organization

Experience

• Bachelor or masters degree in computer science

• Evidence of live software products developed and released under his/her supervision in the past two years
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities
• Strong people management skills and experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• 8+ years of experience managing a team, preferably consisting of Software Developers in an Agile setting
• Driving a culture of trust, cooperation, honest feedback and focus on value for the market/customer
• Understanding of all phases of the product development life cycle and how to apply the appropriate methodologies and processes to the situation at hand
• Competent in presenting technical and business information to a range of audiences including senior leadership and non-technical audiences
• Experience with working in a very dynamic and entrepreneurial environment
• Creative, dependable and trustworthy, with a can-do attitude
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to make the right decisions with sometimes limited information, in a fast-paced environment
• Agile ScrumMaster training a plus
• Experience with Continuous Delivery to the Cloud and best practices around developer experience, continuous deployment, and feature flag management
• Tech stack: GitHub, Azure DevOps, .Net Core/ (back-end and full stack), React JS (front-end and full stack).
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of the standard tools for continuous integration and delivery.