Senior Engineering Manager

Role Description

Responsibilities

• Manage 1 or more teams of software, data & reliability engineers - between 5 and 10 people in total

• Create a culture of ownership and technical excellence, leading by example

• Empower engineers to develop their careers by providing ad-hoc applicable coaching

• Help building and enriching an inclusive work environment comprised of people from diverse backgrounds

• Contribute to projects by guiding architectural discussions, providing technical coaching to software engineers and occasionally getting hands-on with coding

• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes to both supervise health and allow continuous improvement

• Provide technical guidance to both your team members and your project peers

• Drive team efforts to establish bottom-up projects and roadmaps supporting our vision

• Collaborate closely with the team in Amsterdam to drive the delivery of common goals

• Drive initiatives to reduce operational workload, introduce monitoring at scale, and improve debugging, testing, validation, and data quality for production-ready data products.

• Oversee infrastructure upgrades, cloud migrations, and cost optimization for data products, while ensuring golden metrics and operational run metrics owned by the experimentation track are consistently delivered.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering within the technology sector.

• Experience in shaping and leading a software engineering function across multiple products or business areas (5+ years as a senior manager)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent

• Proven experience in managing multiple teams, either directly or indirectly (via managers or team leads).

• Demonstrable experience in shaping and leading software engineering functions

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and cooperate with people at all levels

• 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

• Strong Coding & System design skills with ability to get hands-on with your team if needed

• You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates’ respect through actions, not the title

• Experience in managing platform teams related to data products is a plus

• Experience working with teams located in different timezones is a plus

• Experience with experimentation, statistics and A/B testing is a plus

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