Engineering Manager

What our Engineering Manager does

• Directs and controls the back-end technologies of a platform/product.
• Leads the recruitment and onboarding process for their teams, hires/fires as necessary, coaches teams and individuals to grow talents.
• Manages backend team leads and possibly senior engineers by doing activities such as periodic feedback, one-to-one sessions, performance evaluations, preparing individual development plans (IDP) for direct reports.
• Participates in and leads/co-leads Agile processes and Scrum/Kanban ceremonies of the team and makes sure the team doesn’t deviate from set Agile rules.
• Leads the platform/product development without frequently getting involved in writing and reviewing code.
• Improves the quality of the platform/product by identifying technical debts, recurring problems and pitfalls. Improves the architecture, system design and process flows.
• Managing resources within his/her teams, rotates people as necessary and creates a balance of work load among teams.
• Implements the latest technological innovations to further advance company’s technology in order to enable better and more digital products.
• Creates new guidelines and improves existing standards, ensures that domain knowledge of the team is well documented.
• Participates in and drives engineering activities that are not directly linked to his/her team, but improves the whole engineering process.

Requirements

• Bachelors, Masters or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or any relevant field.
• 8+ years of experience in backend development, 2+ years experience in managing other engineers or leads.
• Experience with K8s and containers, experience with cloud-based development, infrastructure and system design, microservices, SQL and NoSQL databases, Agile methodology (ideally Scrum).
• Data structure, coding patterns and algorithms knowledge.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, Message brokers, 3rd party integrations, code/peer reviews, working with design mock-ups, CI/CD, Secure development, Information security, Test-driven development.
• Constructive feedback, analytical skills, leadership and team management, communication and presentation.
• English (Upper-intermediate).

We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to

• Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
• Official employment in accordance with the laws of Cyprus and the EU, registration of family members.
• Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for 2 weeks).
• Company fitness corner in the office for employees.
• Opportunity to develop language skills and partial compensation for the cost of language classes.
• Birthday celebration present.
• Time for proper rest and 24 working days of annual vacation.
• Breakfasts and lunches in the office (partially paid by the company).

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