Engineering Manager

Job Description

Objective of the Role:

As an Engineering Manager, you serve as the technical anchor for an engineering team. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves a product in its functional and non-functional needs.

You Will:

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of 3-4 Leads and a team of 25-35 top notch Engineers so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Strong People leadership, Mentoring and communication skills.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with cross border teams.
• Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• You will collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, QA and DevOps Engineers in an agile development environment.
• Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and an engineering leader.
• Demonstrate a passion for customers and technology.

You must have:

• 12+ years Software development experience in fast-paced product organisation
• Lead product engineering and platform teams
• Hands on experience building microservices architecture, applying design patterns and developing frameworks
• Experience in developing and leading teams building solution with cloud technologies (AWS and/or Azure)
• Extensive experience in using open-source technologies: Proficiency in any of the languages (Preferred Java), Front-end technologies (react/angular), No-SQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), Elastic Search, Caching (Redis, Aerospike), using containers e.g. Docker (K8, EKS etc) at scale.
• Good exposure to development tools, Git, Jenkins, code review tools & introducing best coding practices.
• Strong hands-on experience in enabling a CI &CD pipeline, canary deployments, blue green deployments in production.
• Work with the support team to define how the applications are supported in production, including system performance and monitoring & Strong database skills
• Able to develop and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external customers
• Consistent track record for solution delivery, Quality improvements, Champion for agile scrum adoption.

Big Pluses if you:

• Have a strong focus on business outcomes
• Are comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Are self-motivated and can get things done
• Have the ability to communicate and defend your ideas clearly
• Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, scaling, and high availability.
• Have a desire to build products that users love

Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

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