Engineering Manager

The job in short

In this key leadership position, where you will lead a best-in-class, functional team of software engineers. Along with leading and growing the team, you define and promote the team’s ways of working, hiring, and training strategies. 

Meet the job

Together with Operations, you will work to create and facilitate an environment in which each individual improves both their soft and strong engineering/consulting skills. You are responsible for creating the conditions in which the development teams can deliver features that meet the high expectations of our customers. You will manage up to 3 functional teams of software engineers and develop high-level strategic plans for those teams to ensure they are set up for success with the right competencies and energized team dynamics. On a day-to-day basis, you work closely with your team to surface any anti-pattern or dysfunction that impacts the team’s performance and ensure the team works towards solving those. 

It is up to you to make sure that your teams are balanced and deliver software that meets the expectations of our customers while taking all the non-functionals like security, performance, maintainability, and reliability into account. You need to be able to answer technical questions, train and manage your team while working with various other departments. 

You have a strong ability to persuade, inspire and motivate others. You easily navigate stakeholders across Backbase, from 1-to-1s with members of your team to working directly with senior leadership. 

How about you

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field;
• 5+ years of engineering experience;
• 2+ years of people management experience;
• You have the leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team;
• You have an analytical and mathematical mind, capable of evaluating and solving various complex problems;
• You have the ability to provide and receive constructive feedback;
• You can make decisions quickly;
• You understand and have experience with Agile methodology; 
• You have excellent communication skills in English (spoken and written).

Tech Stack Reference
You are expected to have a good understanding of the below technical stack:

• J2EE
• Spring framework
• Microservices
• Cloud Native app development
• DevOps
• Security Testing