Engineering Manager

About the role

Were looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Backend Foundations team. Operating under the larger Access Management group, the Backend Foundations team supports our mission by building easy to use libraries, and scalable frameworks. The Foundations team is central to our success in this mission and ensures that we can ship innovation in a fast, reliable and secure manner. The Engineering Manager will be responsible for managing a team of Java fullstack software engineers.

At a high level, youll be managing your teams goals, contributing to product strategy and helping to develop your employees. More specifically, you will -

• Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
• Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product & technical) and roadmap for the team.
• Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems. Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.
• Participate in and enable key team processes to organize & deliver key projects with high business impact.
• Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent. Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.

Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge:

• 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
• Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
• Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.
• 7-10 years of prior software development experience with Java or other backend technologies. While this role is a people management one, youll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.
• Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation & release orchestration using gating feature flags & configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.
• Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.

Oktas Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our companys actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. Its our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organizations goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.