Manager – Software Engineering

2+ years of software engineering management experience building productive, high functioning teams
Technical acumen
Experience in a fast growing scale-up environment, with a bias to innovation and growth
Growth mindset
Humbitious
High agency mindset
Passion for technology
Experience building distributed web based cloud native applications and services
Experience in various cloud computing/architecture – AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experience
Experience in deploying highly scalable systems with various techniques and design patterns
Experience in the operations of large multi tenant storage deployments (we use MySQL & various no-SQL)
Experience in system architecture patterns like SOA, micro services, EDA (event driven architecture)
Experience in key cloud native technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), containerisation, Kafka, etc
Programming Languages – PHP, Golang, Terraform, Python

Lead a team of dedicated engineers of varied experience levels
Develop an intimate understanding of the underlying technical architecture and contribute as an individual contributor
Co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team
Guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company
Drive the scalability and reliability of your squads offering as we grow
Keep your pulse on the craft: writing architecture designs, working with infrastructure and quality on tooling for your team, and/or exploring POCs
Mentor, develop, and guide a team of software engineers
Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow
Own the Engineering Team Engagement score
Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team
Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
Drive adoption of best practices and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce principles of work
Remove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads
Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals
Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value.