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.