Description:
The Engineering Manager is a leadership role accountable for the successful architecture, design, delivery and operational support of the enterprise software. You will work closely with the Engineering, Product and other stakeholders to ensure software requirements, delivery timelines and risk factors are managed. You will implement a culture of Continuous Improvement within the Engineering function.
What you'll do:
- Lead multiple Scrum teams to deliver new product features
- Work alongside Leadership to build a culture of Continuous Improvement within the Product Engineering team
- Lead architecture discussions for key product areas
- Ensure the SDLC is well defined and adhered to
- Implement new technologies that will support the product and infrastructure evolution
- Lead Engineers in mentoring and training, including work on complex technical problems
- Define and track key metrics that are well understood by the team in order to support agile delivery and quality improvements
- Hiring new staff by identifying key gaps in the teams and proactively identifying candidates for the roles, including defining the interview process to suit the role
Who you are:
- Demonstrate 5+ years of team leadership experience
- Demonstrable experience of at least 8+ years in Java programming
- Understanding of high transaction enterprise system development
- Strong knowledge of Core Java, Spring, Spring Boot and Hibernate
- Messaging pattern experience (Kafka, ActiveMQ)
- Experience with JavaScript, AngularJS, and HTML5
- Strong database technology understanding including solid SQL skills
- Knowledge of database design principles, complex joins, query optimization, index management, integrity checks, statistics and isolation levels
- Solid experience in Automated Testing spanning unit, integration and functional testing
- Strong Continuous Integration skills
- Strong Agile Project Management tooling experience (JIRA e.g.)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Solid experience in code quality tools integration, version control management
- Capability to collaborate with several other developers and mentor junior team members
- A degree in Computer Science, or a related subject is beneficial