Description
GovTech is seeking an engineering manager to oversee and drive the successful implementation, management, and architectural integrity of its Enterprise Applications platform.
The role possesses a strong background in design architecture, administration, and project management, with a proven ability to align initiatives with business objectives, optimize performance, and ensure scalable solutions.
Responsibilities include:
- Defining the team's engineering vision, strategy, and directions that align with the organization's overall vision and goals.
- Partnering with stakeholders and agencies to prioritize and manage roadmaps for delivering towards product vision incrementally and efficiently.
- Creating a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned team, and for other teams as needed.
- Working regularly with engineers to engage in conversations regarding their performance, professional growth, offering constructive feedback, mentoring, and guidance as needed.
- Working with cross-functional partners to develop quality, reliability, and security strategies within the team.
- Proactively identifying and initiating worthwhile engineering initiatives to maximize impact on the public good.
- Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
- Helping with recruitment, particularly for more senior hires.
Requirements:
- Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
- Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering like Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
- Strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just technical chops.
- Passion towards engineering excellence; deep understanding that software engineering is a team sport, and taking pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
- Technical domain knowledge and design architecture for bespoke software development and/or low-code platforms (Pega, Outsystems).
- Passion towards working for public good with interest.
- Ability to guide a team to achieve important goals together.
- 5+ years of experience coaching developers; helping them enhance their performance and grow their careers.
Benefits: GovTech offers a total rewards approach, providing a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks, including leave benefits, employee wellness programs, and flexible work arrangements.