Software Engineering manager

Job Description

Basic Qualifications:

Requires a Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems/Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a directly related field, and five (10) years software engineering experience. 

Will accept a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems/Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a directly related field and eight (12) years of described experience.

What You'll Do:

●    Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform

●    Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain

●    Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals

●    Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth

●    Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture

●    Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain

●    Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams

●    Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs

●    Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.

What You'll Need:

●    Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset

●    Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.

●    12+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers

●    Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility

●    Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people's growth and performance

●    Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment

●    Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication

●    Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements

●    Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design

 decisions.

●    Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, PHP, C#, or similar languages.

●    Experience developing microservices in highly available and large scale distributed systems.

●    Experience deploying solutions into production within GCP, AWS, Azure or similar cloud

 platforms

●    Experience in developing and deploying services/applications in Kubernetes (K8s)

●    Excellent documentation skills to write technical specifications.