Position: Engineering Manager
Company: Upstaff
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Requirements**

- At least 5+ years in IT;
- Technical background (JS or Java or .net) - expert level; 
- Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, and Head of Engineering in the past;
- Worked in such companies as MentorMate, DXD, Luxoft, EPAM, Data Art, etc.
- Participated in more than 50 interviews; 
- Participated in company scale;
- The company size he has worked with is 50-100 ppl. 
 
**Responsibilities**

**Review approaches for technical assessment (technical interview) - Hackerrank**

- Pass the Hackerrank test
- Review Hackerrank (questions complexity, test structure, question formulation, timing)
- Suggest Hackerrank improvements (if needed)

**Review approaches for technical assessment (technical interview) - TI **

- Review TI structure ((questions complexity, test structure, timing, etc)
- Participate in 2-4 interviews as a silent listener (shadow mode)
- Provide the list of comments (format, structure, technical questions)
- Fill in the feedback form provided by Company

**Review Job description**

- Review the existing job description (attractiveness, clarity for the candidate)
- Review responsibilities in the Job description
- Review technical stack in JD (frameworks, technical sub-stack presence on the market)

**Review Client requirements**

- Review requirements for the existing clients
- Review technology stack and provide suggestions on primary and secondary stacks on the BG market

**Review leveling **

- General overview of existing level in BG and expectations on each level (years of experience, technologies, projects, etc)
- BG candidate's profile for each level, general expectations

**Market Research review **

- Review existing market research and provide inputs about the Tech Stack
- Provide suggestions (if any)

**Competitor analysis**

- Market Insights
- Top 10 companies on the market (Product/Outsource)
- Strengths and weaknesses of the companies
- Advise the donor's companies for recruitment

**Market of Juniors**

- Provide the list of reliable local universities/academics/hubs/courses/etc that can provide Juniors with an appropriate level of knowledge in JS, Java, DevOps
- Provide pros and cons for each of them
- Suggest an effective way for Junior preparation

**Approach on how to attract candidates (Hiring tips and tricks)**

- Messaging, source of approach (LN, dev.bg, etc)
- Provide the list of professional groups/networking
- Provide the list of events that may be interesting for the talents on the market
- Benefits for the candidates

**Review the Company page on the Job Portals**

- Provide the list of suggestions and improvements (please specify what is good, what may be improved, what is missed, and what should be removed)

**Suggest other ideas for minimizing the rejection rate (CoE/Candidate/Client/etc)**

- Please share your thoughts on how to minimize the rejection rate based on your experience