Software Engineering Manager

Team Manager

Responsibilities

· Become a team manager for 6 team members addressing their personal and professional needs as well as participate and lead design efforts related to the solution alongside tech leads and architects.

· Recruit and build a self-organizing agile team as well as implement career development and personal growth plans and enhance the team members’ technical proficiency level and soft skills.

· Manage and drive execution as well as manage the development lifecycle and the day-to-day activities of the team. Assume complete ownership over the team’s products, their quality as well as the production environment and operational requirements.

· Drive improvements to the team development methodologies, tools, and processes.

· Invest 50% of your time in managing and growing the team and the other 50% in hands-on coding and performing code reviews as part of the team’s daily activities.

· Collaborate with other engineering managers, product, support, and other colleagues to evolve, maintain, and operate your product.

· Verify and maintain a high level of development, quality and delivery standards for your team as defined by the organization’s policies.

Qualifications

· A minimum of 7 years software development experience.

· A minimum of 4 years development and code-level design experience with Node.js, Java or C#.

· At least 2 years working with relational databases.

· Managed teams for at least 3 consecutive years with a minimum of 5 team members.

· Practical experience with development quality methodologies and testing.

· Practical familiarity with OOP, design patterns and SOLID principles.

· Excellent interpersonal, planning, time management and organizational skills.

· Substantial experience and ability for prioritizing, planning, driving, and managing execution plans.

· Exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

· Proactive, independent, mature, self-driven and works well with minimal supervision as part of a diverse team.

· Proficiency in verbal and written English communication.

· Willingness to gradually become full stack while still maintaining a focus on backend development.

Advantageous Qualifications

A person cannot be an expert on everything, but if you have experience with one or more of the following, it can be an advantage for you and your team:

· A minimum of 2 years’ experience working with NoSQL databases.

· Hands-on experience with AWS and its services.

· Comfortable working with Windows and Linux as production environments.

· Experience with agile methodologies.

· Practical experience with one or more of the following: performance analysis and optimizations, application security, data streaming and additional cloud platforms.

· Experience collaborating with international technical managers and colleagues.