Engineering Manager
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Job Description
Job description
We are looking for an Engineering Manager ready to drive change and delivery.
This position offers a great opportunity to take the delivery lead on a number of components and functions. You would be managing 2 engineering teams (up to 20 people altogether) that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous highimpact area.
We are looking for ambitious independent structured and engaged leader with a solid leadership background tech mindset and business acumen.
As an Engineering Manager you will be accountable for the team regarding efficient delivery and people management. You will achieve it in close collaboration with the product function other tech leaders and architects.
You will play a key role in developing and growing our flagship product (Setmore)as well as help shaping our NextGen engineering culture. Setmore is a scheduling softwarewith thousands of users and millions ofscheduled appointments each month.
Roles and responsibilities
- Delivery Management and
- Drive roadmap defining periodic delivery milestones within engineering resources and business requirements constraints
- Set up and maintain delivery strategy and team organisation to effectively deliver on the backlog
- Create clarity for the teams explaining business requirements and translating them into engineering tasks
- Collaborate with PM and UX Design to determine feasibility and scope of and plan and prioritise the backlog altogether with the PM team
- Track the of the roadmap/ backlog
- Validate that the deliverables are meeting product and business requirements before they are released
- Ensure team has necessary resources approvals and other support
- Mitigate any risks to the plan that are being observed by efficient team management strong understanding of technology and by collaborating with other teams and leaders within the company to clear away obstacles and get the resources their team needs to succeed
- Measure the teams efficiency and quality of deliverables and set clear expectations and goals
- Adjust processes and timelines to ensure high quality is delivered
People management
- Manage performance of team members ensuring high productivity within the team
- Design a team structure with clear roles responsibilities and processes across the managed scope
- Allocate assignments to team members in accordance with their skills strengths and weaknesses and aspirations for career development
- Motivate boost morale resolve conflicts within the team and work on making the team members thrive
- Set challenging goals for the team members
- Provide frequent fair and insightful feedback to improve performance enable high standards and quality of work and reinforce positive behaviours and recognise good work
- Coach and mentor team members
- Ensure team members are receiving necessary training and upskilling so that they are capable of doing their work
- Provide development opportunities to team members
- Conduct regular 1on1s and performance reviews
- Model the right culture and values for the team members to follow
- Foster the culture of crossfunctional collaboration and coordination
- Identify recruitment needs and work closely with HR and recruitment teams on hiring the right talent
- Onboard new team members
Technical leadership
- Providing handson leadership within Java JS (including React) and GCP when needed.
- Make sure the solutions chosen to deliver the agreed scope are optimal for the organization architecture infrastructure and the team
- Provide guidance and direction to the teams with regards to design architecture implementation validation and monitoring
- Set high standards on coding testing deployment and monitoring
- Contribute to code reviews and help the team deliver more robust maintainable and high quality software
- Manage the development and maintenance of the given components and areas including incident and problem management system lifecycle management etc.
- Manage the housekeeping activities in teams like compliance for audits technical vulnerabilities exceptions etc.
- Collaborate with various functions drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level
- Contribute to setting architectural principles and guidelines
- Prepare technical proposals and reports when necessary
Stakeholder management
- Communicate with key stakeholders and collect and share feedback
- Ensure transparency on decisions progress and results
- Ensure alignment
Job requirements
Must have
Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field
At least 3 years in similar role managing more than 1 engineering team
At least 5 years experience in people management
At least 10 years handson software engineering work experience including technical management building software solutions API design and integrations
Strong working knowledge of BackEnd technologies including Java 17 Spring Boot RESTEasy NodeJS Express SQL NoSQL Redis; and FrontEnd technologies including React TypeScript Redux Webpack and Micro Frontends.
Experience working in complex environment with many interdependencies
Experience with solution architecture and cloud technology
Experience with making sound code quality vs speed of development tradeoff and understanding the consequences for the product and business
Experience developing processes setting up standards and engineering good practices as well as removing hurdles to facilitate great and fast
Curiosity and desire to continuously learn
Quality and mindset
Focus on continuous improvement
Experience with agile tooling (Jira Confluence etc.
Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams including performance management
Experience in mentoring and training less experienced colleagues
Experience with multicultural teams and organisations
Great communication skills ability to connect easily with the team members other managers product managers and stakeholders and understanding overcommunication is better then no communication
Being comfortable managing team members with different skillsets from your own and with better skills than your own
Excellent communication skills with C1 English language proficiency level as a minimum and ability to clearly communicate and discuss ideas & concepts
Good to have
Knowledge of booking/ scheduling domain or experience working on related products
Working experience in SaaS products
Experience in building product from scratch
Why choose FULL
Do you want to work on a product that has transformed the lives of over 60000 global users Setmore ranked as one of Forbess top 7 scheduling apps helps businesses grow and thrive. With more than 6 million monthly appointments we make scheduling dreams a reality; irrespective of the business size. This is your chance to change the scheduling world with us!
About us
We are a Portlandbased SaaS product company on a mission to empower businesses to work from Anywhere. Our global team of engineers designers testers product experts customer experience associates and marketers come together to create a better way to work. Our products and services help businesses to be more productive flexible and scalable. Together we can change the way the world works!
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