# Engineering Manager

**Company**: Mollie
**Location**: Milan
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mollie/469128ef-c306-413f-b2f8-145bffe5322c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_37a00088-010

## Description

As a hands-on Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of skilled engineers in defining and delivering the technical roadmap for our products.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll help shape product strategy and direction, while representing engineering in key technical discussions.

Your work will directly influence product quality, scalability, and innovation, playing a critical role in our overall success.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a growing team of application engineers, with a hands-on leadership approach expected from all engineering managers

- Bring strong technical expertise and a proven track record in large-scale distributed systems and/or guiding teams through complex technical transitions

- Drive strategic technical decisions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, and lead cross-domain technical initiatives that align with overall business and product goals

- Identify improvements within the team, propose actionable solutions, and coordinate efforts to improve team velocity and effectiveness

- Help shape the broader domain vision, influence strategic direction, and set goals for ongoing product improvement

- Balance hands-on engineering with big picture thinking, taking pride in mentoring and developing high performing teams

- Maintain a results driven mindset focused on delivering impact at scale and speed

Requirements:

- Management Experience: Preferably 2+ years of managing multidisciplinary teams, with a proven ability to recruit, retain, and grow top engineering talent.

- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and mentor engineering teams. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills. You are a great active listener.

- Engineering Excellence: Significant hands-on experience in various contexts, building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems and full-stack products, preferably on the JVM or PHP stacks.

- Product Sense: A strong understanding of product development principles and a customer-centric approach.

- Bias Towards Action: Balance speed and quality, make quick decisions, and learn from mistakes.

- Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for finding creative solutions to complex challenges.

- Passion and Energy: Demonstrate ownership and enthusiasm, seeing new tasks as opportunities to contribute and grow.

- Always Be Shipping Mindset: It’s about consistently delivering value to customers, where speed and quality go hand in hand.

## Skills

### Required
- large-scale distributed systems
- technical leadership
- product development
- customer-centric approach
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- JVM
- PHP stacks

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