Engineering Manager - IT

Role : Engineering Manager

Reporting to : Director of Engineering

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