Engineering Manager

Role Description What youll be doing: People Leadership Inspire and motivate multiple cross functional teams; Directly manage engineers; Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating; Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team; Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success; Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work. Technology, Craft & Delivery Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team; Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives; Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team; Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team; Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations; Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed; Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department. Architecture & Product Strategy Define, shape and deliver the roadmap; Build new products, processes and operational plans; Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features; Drive innovation in the team; Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment. What youll bring: Strong people management skills and experience; Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision; You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates respect through actions, not the title; 6+ years of experience in software development; At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment; Strong Coding & System design skills with ability to get hands-on with your team if needed; Experience with Java, Kafka, Cassandra and/ or MySQL is a plus; Deep experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing paradigms; Experience in working on products with a large customer base and company wide impact; Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic and security concerns; Past experience with Payments or FinTech and working in a regulated environment is a plus; Strong analytical skills and data-driven mindset.