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Software Engineering Manager

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Software Engineering Manager

Closing: Mar 19, 2024

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Published: Feb 20, 2024 (2 months ago)

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Minimum Requirements & Key Skills:

  • 7+ years of software development or technical product management experience with the full software development life-cycle: design, coding, testing, mocking, deployment and maintenance of software to real production environments;
  • 3+ years as a software engineering manager with people management responsibilities and a track record of hiring and growing a talented team of engineers;
  • Experience working with micro services, Kubernetes/Docker, and GCP/AWS services;
  • Experience working with Agile methodologies, Scrum and demonstrated experience in managing end-to-end software development lifecycles.
  • Proficiency with tools of the product and engineering trade for issue tracking, technical documentation, diagramming, roadmapping, project management, CI/CD, etc.
  • The ability to align people behind a common goal. You can explain and materialize objectives of the team;
  • Working knowledge of large-scale service-oriented infrastructure and the design of scalable, highly available systems in the real world;
  • Strong overall knowledge of development and quality assurance methodologies;
  • Ability to successfully collaborate with multiple technical functions in the areas of infrastructure, devops, architects and other software engineers;
  • Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills


Responsibilities

Minimum Requirements & Key Skills:

  • 7+ years of software development or technical product management experience with the full software development life-cycle: design, coding, testing, mocking, deployment and maintenance of software to real production environments;
  • 3+ years as a software engineering manager with people management responsibilities and a track record of hiring and growing a talented team of engineers;
  • Experience working with micro services, Kubernetes/Docker, and GCP/AWS services;
  • Experience working with Agile methodologies, Scrum and demonstrated experience in managing end-to-end software development lifecycles.
  • Proficiency with tools of the product and engineering trade for issue tracking, technical documentation, diagramming, roadmapping, project management, CI/CD, etc.
  • The ability to align people behind a common goal. You can explain and materialize objectives of the team;
  • Working knowledge of large-scale service-oriented infrastructure and the design of scalable, highly available systems in the real world;
  • Strong overall knowledge of development and quality assurance methodologies;
  • Ability to successfully collaborate with multiple technical functions in the areas of infrastructure, devops, architects and other software engineers;
  • Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills


  • Leadership: Be the leader who your team looks up to. Improve processes to make your team more effective. Develop knowledge and domain expertise. Take ownership of what you and the team build and coordinate efforts across the team to ensure efficient completion of tasks. Eliminate obstacles that prevent your team from performing optimally.
  • People Management: Actively seek to build a great team. Ensure effective recruitment, training and development programs are adopted to promote productivity, retention, motivation and morale. Manage the career path and goals of your team members, conducting regular 1-on-1s and having monthly performance dialogues. Review candidate profiles and conduct interviews keeping Kyosk’s growth and culture objectives in mind.
  • Performance Management: Set and review performance and development goals for your team. Identify timeframes and readiness for promotion of direct reports; solicit cross functional feedback in support of promotions and employee rewards. Coach and mentor engineers, showing them the next steps in their careers. Craft a winning culture built on collaboration and shared accomplishments while having fun along the way.
  • Integrator: As a senior member of Kyosk’s Core engineering team you will work to harmoniously integrate the various engineering teams through the consistent adoption of tools, methodologies and processes. You will create the glue that holds the engineering teams together in their ways of working.
  • Capacity Planning: Establish staffing needs and a hiring strategy by working collaboratively with the broader Product and Technology management team. Balance the size and composition of your teams against the expected deliverables while ensuring optimal team performance.
  • Strategic Thinking: Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit the team and their product(s). Work closely with your manager and other senior members of the Product and Engineering team to ensure that the roadmap is clearly understood and translated into requirements that the Core team should drive forward. 
  • Technical Delivery: Take ownership of the progress, costs, and quality of delivering engineering outcomes. Adopt, enforce, and contribute to the agile processes that define Kyosk’s way of working to deliver multiple product releases at scale. Own and refine the processes that your team uses to build and support products within the business. 
  • Technical Monitoring: Build a deep understanding of how our products work and are built. Though you will not be expected to code regularly or at all, you need to grasp code and architecture concerns. Identify and track metrics that can be used to ensure objectives are met and recommend process improvements. Understand engineering metrics and seek to improve them.
  • Process Improvement: Regularly monitor, determine and recommend methods to streamline and improve development processes and procedures. Spearhead various research and development initiatives to identify opportunities for new projects and improved processes.
  • Stakeholder Management: Prepare and deliver various engineering-related presentations, both internally and externally. Act as the point of contact with the business and technical leadership communicating their priorities to the team and vice versa.


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