Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Manage specifications, design, development, code reviews, deployment, and troubleshooting of scalable and high-performance web applications.
• Advocate for software design best practices and recommend frameworks and design patterns.
• Lead technical design discussions and provide suggestions to mitigate any impact.
• Make decisions to evolve software applications and architectures as needed.
• Review work of development team to ensure coding standards and best practices are being followed.
• Also, ensures applications meet Non-Functional requirements (Security, Scalability, Resiliency,
  Accessibility, and Performance)
• Provide leadership, and support to coach, motivate, and lead high performing team.
• Guide supervised employees in setting goals, provide feedback, and conduct performance
  evaluations.
• Encourage and support the training and upskilling of team members.
• Continuously improve the Software Development processes.
• Coordinate development projects and production issues with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with Product and Program Managers to influence the Product roadmap and Project plan.
• Report team status to stakeholders and seek feedback for improvement.
• Assist in recruiting efforts for development teams.
  

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals • Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills • 12+ years of relevant Software Development experience in developing and shipping software. • 3+ years of management/leadership experience in a global software development organization. • Hands-on experience in the design, development, and release cycle of software. • Experience with Microservices, Event-driven and Service-Oriented Architecture and cloud computing platforms (AWS/Azure) • Proficient in Java programming experience, Object Oriented Design, and working experience with Databases (Relational/No-SQL) and Queuing Technologies (Rabbit MQ/Kafka) • Experience understanding business strategy and its alignment with technology. • Strong understanding of the software engineering practices and patterns for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live site operations. • Ability to influence technical discussions and building teams technical vision. • Strong Leadership, project management, time-management, and problem-solving skills. • Experience of partnering with product and program management teams. • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Proven track record of forming, mentoring, and growing strong engineering teams. • Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, result-oriented and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. • Experience in hiring, mentoring, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective. • Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision. • Preferred experience with JavaScript + Angular/React Js/Typescript, Graph Query Language (GQL).