Overview
The Senior Engineering Manager Scala plays a pivotal role in overseeing the design development and implementation of robust software applications using Scala within a fully remote environment. This role is crucial as it combines technical acumen with leadership to ensure that the technical teams are aligned with the business objectives while delivering highquality software solutions. The Senior Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers foster an innovative and collaborative workspace and utilize Agile methodologies to enhance team performance. Furthermore the individual will be responsible for driving technical strategy and overseeing software development lifecycles ensuring that best practices and quality standards are met. As a leader they will facilitate communication across various departments specifically working closely with product managers and stakeholders. This position offers an exciting opportunity for seasoned professionals who have a passion for Scala and want to make a significant impact in a remote setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team.
- Deeply involved with system architecture of the team guiding the team through new systems being built or integrating into existing systems. Using prior design experience to identify pitfalls in scaling performance availability and helping the team navigate it.
- Helping raise the bar on engineering practices through high quality code review feedbacks design reviews testing and CICD practices.
- Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to externally and internally imposed deadlines and targets.
- Make hiring plans and hiring decisions.
- Give frequent feedback and coaching to your team members coordinating with people from around the company to get a full understanding of your team s performance.
- Provide a diverse equitable and inclusive environment for your team to execute on its priorities and evolve its capabilities over time.
- Communicate at all levels from senior leaders to individual contributors including technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Adapt the team s plans and goals to changing realities in a fastmoving industry.
- Effectively resolve ambiguity helping the team to analyze complex requirements and break down features and initiatives into tasks.
- Own the team s output taking responsibility for everyone s performance.
- Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends.
Qualifications:
- You have 10 years of experience in software development & delivery.
- You have 4 years of managing engineering teams delivering high quality software for customers.
- Youre technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions.
- You have experience with modern software engineering concepts.
- Ideally you have expertise in backend systems built with Java / Scala (or similar).
- You have experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers project managers and business owners.
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