BlitzAtelier 
 Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland (europe)
#### This is a hands-on engineering management role and is a great opportunity for someone who wants to transition from senior/lead developer to the management role, but would still write code 35% of the time. This is a high-impact \u0026amp; growth role (remote only) with 7+ years of experience preferably in the product development company as a strong senior developer/lead or early manager. Our team members love working here due to having Freedom, Growth, Learning, Recognition, and Respect.\n\n### What we do:\nLabra is one of the leading software product development companies, building cloud-native B2B SaaS software helping customers in their cloud transformation journey. We are rapidly growing and looking to hire smart people who can continue fueling our growth and be part of our success journey.\n\n### Job detail:\n*Remote only!* We only hire those people who want to grow in their career and give serious attention to their career growth path. If you are looking for an opportunity to keep yourself in your comfort zone, then this might not be a good role for you!\n\nWe are looking for an Associate Engineering Manager (with 7+ years of software development experience), who is passionate about building and leading a team of talented software engineers. You would be the one who will set directions to make the team and its members succeed in their work and career. You will also be required to work closely with the product manager to understand the vision of the application and help in backlog creation.\n\n### Why should you be interested in this opportunity?\n* Your freedom and opportunity to grow rapidly in your career. You will be fully empowered by tools and knowledge to grow in your career as well as helping your team members grow.\n* You would hire and lead the engineering team.\n* A culture of respect, humility, growth mindset, and fun in the team.\n* Work with a team of smart people and learn from them.\n* No boring or legacy/tech debt system - only challenging work - you will be helping in building something that would be running on a distributed environment with a fault-tolerant system in the cloud.\n* No micromanagement and flexible working hours - you get the goal - you decide a reasonable time to deliver, we care about QUALITY RESULT on *your committed timeline*. \n* Get rewarded and recognized for your work and effort.\n* Training and career development benefits.\n* Life Insurance paid parental leave and vacation days.\n\n### Responsibilities\n* Collaborate with management, product teams, and other key stakeholders to build a long-term technology and product roadmap\n* Manage team goals, product development timelines, and delivery dates while ensuring proper allocation of resources and budgets within the team\n* Lead and develop a team of talented and high-impact engineers, providing cultural, technical, and hands-on leadership\n* Grow engineers by actively shaping a culture of open communication, craftsmanship, ownership, and accountability\n* Drive and help the engineering team in adopting the engineering best practices to scale the team and the technology stack.\n* Be fully accountable to and drive accountability for KPIs pertaining to service health and uptime, software quality, and test coverage.\n* Drive work, execution, and accountability based on goals (OKRs) and measurable outcomes.\n* Drive a rigorous practice of thorough documentation and knowledge sharing\n* Resolve escalations arising from operations and work with various teams to solve problems\n* Work closely with company leadership to identify upcoming opportunities and risks\n* Align teams to broader company objectives\n\n### Requirements:\n* The most important requirement - Must have a growth mindset, be willing to learn new things, take risks and not be afraid of failure, welcome challenges, be result-oriented and hold him/herself fully accountable for its own commitments and last but not least - be a great team player, whom everyone likes to work with.\n* Work experience as a lead/manager or similar senior-level position at an engineering department.\n* 7+ years of professional experience as a senior/lead software engineer, having a few years of experience in engineering management during those years will be a huge plus. \n* Must have good functional knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodology. Can also act as a Scrum master, as needed.\n* A strong influential ability/personality for driving the team to success.\n* Proven hands-on technical experience with cloud-native application development (Distributed systems, event-driven microservices, AWS)\n* Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-volume applications \n* Proven understanding of business goals and strategy and how that drives direction within an engineering department\n* Experience in testing asynchronous systems that are developed in a cloud-based distributed environment.\n* Ability to translate a complex arrangement of software components into a cohesive architecture that yields clean, efficient, and highly maintainable code.\n* Strong working knowledge of modern software development methodologies, software design patterns, and SDLC\n* A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive\n* Have good knowledge of Cloud (AWS) systems and CICD pipeline. We have a fully automated pipeline to deploy docker images to AWS. We push several times a day.\n* We are language and framework agnostic and trust our engineers to make sensible decisions to select (or learn quickly) their language and tool carefully. However, if you wish to know our current software development stack - we are currently leveraging GoLang, Python, TypeScript, Serverless-computing (Lambda), Postgres, Redis, React, Redux, Jenkins, Github, Docker, and tons of other AWS resources. We expect you to have good working knowledge on some of these technologies.\n* Highly motivated and entrepreneurial – you not only can spot problems, but you can marshal resources towards creative solutions.\n* Self-starter and strong finisher with a positive, can-do attitude and biased to action.\n* Startup experience in Product development companies.\n* Effective written and verbal communication skills