Position: Engineering Manager (f/m/d)
Company: Foxit Software
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Reporting to the Vice President of Product Strategy, you will be a key member of the team that delivers the initial release of a growth offering for Foxit. You’ll be responsible for directing and overseeing the software engineering function in development, release, and maintenance of SaaS applications. You’ll oversee the overall product development lifecycle, managing departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, enhancing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.

The ideal candidate wants to make an impact; can build and manage large, diverse engineering teams; and is priorities-driven, extraordinarily self-motivated, and able to work autonomously while exercising solid business judgement. 

What You’ll Do

Develop and own an engineering roadmap that predictably delivers a high-quality SaaS platform that delights customers and drives business results
Help complete building the engineering team, and manage the day-to-day activities of the team within an Agile/Scrum environment
Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management/stakeholders
Partner with technical leaders to design platform architecture, negotiate dependency deliver and drive continuous improvements of existing and new frameworks/patterns
Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce and engineering talent
Lead software development teams and act as an escalation point to remove roadblocks
Engage in solutions to ensure the alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps
Develop and manage relationships with product owners, engineers, developers, and other business stakeholders

What You’ll Need

3-7 years experience leading diverse, geographically-distributed full-stack engineering teams
Experience building applications with Cloud Service Providers, preferably AWS/Azure
Experience with modern, distributed databases
Excellent understanding of cloud storage methodology
Experience with web collaboration tools and UI Design
Experience with Electron/native mobile development
Excellent understanding of Agile Principles and experience managing development via multiple development teams in an Agile environment.
Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment.

This is what you can expect:

The chance to contribute to the creation of a sophisticated and appealing product, built from scratch with a fresh, European team!
A fast, flexible, and rewarding incubator-like environment but with the solidity and seriousness of large and stable company in the background
Be part of the exquisite team that will shell out the next big Foxit product – Excellence built in Europe – all eyes on us!
Competitive remuneration package

Required Geography: Germany, remote, Slovakia, pref. greater Nitra area or North Macedonia, pref. greater Skopje area.