Responsibilites
- Lead and manage technical projects from conception to completion.
- Prepare technical specification documents with respect to the SoW.
- Estimate effort and project timelines.
- Prepare a Gantt plan and allocate bandwidth.
- Deliver at high-quality standards that meet the KPIs.
- Collaborate with support and product team during the post-release hypercare period to meet the project's KPIs.
- Effectively manage projects using Scrum, Agile, or another framework of choice.
- Manage priorities.
- Keep track of risks, blockers, and due dates.
- Analyze engineering challenges and develop solutions.
- Identify and resolve process bottlenecks.
- Automate redundant processes and tasks.
- Research and recommend new technologies suiting for the organization's current tech and trajectory.
- Support and manage technical teams.
- Ensure and advocate for staff wellbeing and work quality.
- Prevent team member burnout and timely address their concerns.
- Conduct regular individual performance assessments and surveys.
- Influence and coach engineers.
- Set personalized learning paths and objectives for the team.
- Organize frequent training sessions within the team.
- Promote participation in tech events for the team.
- Provides strategic guidance and mentorship to other engineering managers.
- Keep track of capacity, bandwidth, and the roadmap of the engineering team members.
- Collaborate to keep and stay aware of all ongoing projects and developments.
- Monitor and assess the performance of the engineering team.
- Follow DORA or another equal framework of choice.
- Track and present performance, identify and lead improvements.
- Travel for on-site offshore collaboration with clients.
- Present project deliverables and the project roadmap.
- Keep internal and external stakeholders informed with project progress.
- Represent the company in events and meetings.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of people management experience in a start-up.
- Minimum of 5 years of recent experience launching and maintaining software products.
- Minimum of 5 years of recent software development experience (in the last 8 years).
- Prior experience as a founder or in growing-stage startups.
- Realistic about budgeting, trade-offs, headcount, cash burn, etc.
- Excellent communication skills - oral and written - mean that you are able to speak with clarity to customers, succinctly with investors, and with precision to engineers.
- Valid Passport and other requisites to travel offshore.
This job was posted by Neethu Krishna from Mishipay.
