Engineering Manager (fixed term contract)

About the role

As an Engineering Manager, you will have a significant impact on your team's operations. You will continuously enhance tools and processes for people management while collaborating with engineering managers to define new workflows and implement improvements.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a multi-member team.
• Consistently delivering products in line with established action plans.
• Active involvement in technical tasks, including hands-on coding and software development.
• Ensuring code quality and functionality through the production phase.
• Upholding the quality of processes, projects, and systems agreed upon by the team.
• Defining service features and components under the team's responsibility.
• Continuously improving both personal and team performance by suggesting and helping implement new processes and engineering best practices.
• Effectively communicating progress, achievements, and areas for improvement to team members and management.
• Serving as a trusted technical authority in one or more areas, providing guidance and engineering advice to the team.
• Leading discussions on team architecture and design strategies.
• Mentoring less experienced developers.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define the teams action plans and manage competing priorities.
• Monitoring team engagement and well-being indicators.
• Proactively identifying and resolving potential performance challenges within the team.
• Supporting the development and career growth of team members.
• Participating in recruitment processes.
• Advocating for business and technical decisions made by the company within the team.

What are we looking for?

• As a trusted technical authority, you will become the primary point of contact for all engineering-related matters.
• Extensive experience in designing, building, and deploying solutions in AWS with an unwavering focus on quality.
• Comprehensive expertise in designing and delivering low-latency, high-throughput API systems using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
• As a programming polyglot, you excel in delivering software systems while leveraging Agile, Lean, and DevOps methodologies, effectively leading project execution.
• Writing automated tests (unit, integration, etc.), pairing, enhancing code quality, and continuous integration are embedded in your professional DNA.
• Proven experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, framework, or development platform.
• Experienced in developing CI/CD solutions and cloud infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
• You believe that neglecting Continuous Delivery is a missed opportunity to learn and deliver value to clients.
• Passionate about full team ownership, encompassing the entire product lifecycle and its components, including code, infrastructure, and after-hours support.
• Embracing a new programming language or technology is an opportunity you eagerly pursue.
• Skilled at balancing the demands of delivering high-quality products while meeting challenging deadlines and committed to fulfilling your responsibilities.
• Your actions consistently demonstrate that collaboration is the best path to delivering outstanding products.

The tech stack

C# .NET or
Java
TypeScript
Javascript
Python
Amazon Web Services

What do we offer?