Engineering Manager at Autochek

The role

We are looking for a talent who is passionate about leading a team towards building great products. As an Engineering Manager you will be responsible for leading, enabling and empowering the team; setting the vision and driving them to success.

The role has 3 components:

• Team management
• Project management
• Software engineering

As a Team Manager, you will:

• Manage a group of 5 to 10 software engineers reporting directly to you.
• Handle team members’ career (recruitment, onboarding, growth, offboarding)
• Define their quarterly objectives and help them reach their targets
• Keep team members engaged by providing constructive feedback, growth perspectives and mentoring.

As Project Manager, you will:

• Work closely with the Product Manager. To build the product vision and plan the quarterly roadmap you will heavily rely on your technical expertise and the capacity and performance of your team.
• Organize the work with your team, making sure that large projects are broken down into deliverables and that requirements, system designs and technical specifications are properly done in order to minimize risk and improve predictability of deliverables.
• Be responsible for the performance of your team, ensuring adequate communication within your team and with external parties, focusing the effort of your team toward a common goal and quickly removing impediments in order to achieve agility.
• Report project status to stakeholders (Business, Marketing, etc…) on a regular basis

As a Senior Software Engineering, you will:

• Design and architect software solutions in collaboration with the Technical Lead
• Review pull requests, code, ship, monitor and maintain applications under your responsibility
• Constantly improve the software development process to improve quality and agility
• Exchange with the other software development teams and the data team

Required skills and experience

• You have at least 3-5 years of experience leading a team
• You have already coached and mentored people teams including senior software engineers in a product focused organization
• You have a technical background building user-facing products
• You are an seasoned software engineer with experienced with architectural patterns and large scale applications
• You have demonstrable experience of project management
• You are a strong team player
• You act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally, helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineers to perform at their best.
• A deep sense of ownership with clear, demonstrable experience of proactiveness
• Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance.
• You are able to operate at a tactical level while understanding the big-picture strategy.

Our tech stack

Experience with our tech stack is a bonus but not a deal breaker

• Micro-service architecture
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Postgres and MongoDB
• NestJS
• NextJS
• Android (Kotlin)/iOS (Swift)
• Hasura & Retool
• Google Cloud Platform & Amazon Web Services