Engineering Manager

BrainRocket is a software development company and digital solutions provider. The company has created over 40 cutting-edge products spanning 20 different markets.
Our team of around 670 tech-savvy professionals successfully deliver scalable projects that are custom-made to the customers’ needs.
We also strive to create a culture centered around personal and professional growth for employees, in a positive and welcoming environment.

 

We are looking for Engineering Manager who will lead several teams of engineers and the back-end technologies of a platform/product in order to achieve technological excellency and produce high quality, high value and timely releases.

✅ Main Responsibilities

✔️ 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 back-end team leads and possibly senior engineers by doing activities such as: periodic feedbacks, 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 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 and drives engineering activities that are not directly linked to his/her team, but improves the whole engineering

✅ Requirements:

✔️ Bachelors, Masters or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or any relevant field.
✔️ 8+ years 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).