Job Title: Software Engineering Manager
Full Stack Engineering
Level: L4
Location: India - Remote
Job Description
Basic Qualifications:
Requires a Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems/Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a directly related field, and five (10) years software engineering experience.
Will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems/Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a directly related field and eight (12) years of described experience.
What You'll Do:
● Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform
● Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain
● Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals
● Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth
● Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture
● Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain
● Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams
● Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs
● Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.
What You'll Need:
● Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset
● Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.
● 12+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers
● Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility
● Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people’s growth and performance
● Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment
● Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication
● Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements
● Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design
decisions.
● Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, PHP, C#, or similar languages.
● Experience developing microservices in highly available and large scale distributed systems.
● Experience deploying solutions into production within GCP, AWS, Azure or similar cloud
platforms
● Experience in developing and deploying services/applications in Kubernetes (K8s)
● Excellent documentation skills to write technical specifications.
