Engineering Manager
| Company | Wattpad |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada, Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, Canada |
| Salary | $140000 – $175000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building and leading successful engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience in a prior software development role
- Experience leading and guiding large-scale technical projects
- A strong technical background in order to make well informed decisions
- An effective communicator that can translate complex technical concepts to various audiences
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 5-10 engineers and play an active role in hiring across the team
- Coach engineers on the team and guide them through a goal setting and achievement
- Contribute to the technology strategy by guiding and shepherding the technical architecture
- Maintain high quality standards, especially with technology, and foster a culture of long-term thinking and innovation
- Help support and unblock the team in delivering on its goals; you will oversee the technical scoping and planning for the team, and lead sprint rituals such as daily scrum and retrospectives
- Work alongside Product Managers and technical product managers to provide leadership, guidance and direction for the team in delivering
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS and related products: EKS, MSK, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Elasticache
- Infrastructure technologies: Redis, Memcached, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes
- Languages/other technologies: Go, Terraform, Protobuf/gRPC, Python