Position: Software Engineering Director
Company: Product Madness
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for a passionate hands-off software development director that can oversee remote full stack developers in primary eastern europe and a small team of native mobile client developers. Your role is to drive engineering excellence for a local engineering team as well as larger teams in Eastern Europe to support high performance using agile and lean methodologies.

Your teams are responsible for building and maintaining central services and platforms like customer support portal, email campaigns, game integration SDK for all our games to use the central services, 3rd party integrations to e.g. Appsflyer, Facebook, Apple as well as internal data integrations between the games and user acquisition and data science.

Essential:
 
Experience working closely with Product Owners, Quality Assurance, Platform teams, Server teams and other leaders to ensure the department is delivering world-class technology.
Experience advocating and promoting modern, agile software development practices.
Experience in native mobile SDK development using C#, ObjC/Swift, or Java/Kotlin
Experience with full stack web environments developed in Ruby on Rails and similar technology stacks
Experience with development using cloud based technologies a big plus
GCP experiences a big plus or alternatively other cloud environments.
Experience with managing multiple teams, and have successfully solved many of the tough organizational challenges that follow.
Experience of influencing across team & wider teams
Experience working in high volume releases environments
 
Nice to Have:
 
Foster the development of direct reports by providing coaching & setting short-term & long-term stretch goals to ensure employee growth.
Work with leaders and HR teams to attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent.
Ability to push standardization across teams and optimize workflows in collaboration with project management.
Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
A platform/service development background as an engineer.
Knowledge of good engineering practices and code architecture.
Experience in coaching and growing high-performing engineers.

What You'll Do

This is a role that will suit an empathetic technology leader, who can focus on driving a candid feedback culture, mentor and coach engineers and have a focus on great people and cross-team practices.

The mobile SDKs provide support for iOS and Android platforms, and are developed in ObjC, Swift, Java and Kotlin, with a C# bridge for integration with Unity. A great emphasis is placed on CI, employing xUnit tools for testing, with Gradle for build orchestration on Jenkins.

The main tech stack is currently web based against a Ruby on Rails backend running on physical machines. We will be moving to cloud based microservices and refreshing our technologies over the next years with a move to a mixed technology stack to be defined. Our development support runs on Jenkins for CI, Applivery, Artifactory, Git for source control, and Jira/Atlassian for project management.


Benefits:
24 Paid Vacation Days and Additional Days Off
Paid Sick Leaves
Learning & Development
English Classes
Comfortable Office Location
Office Wellbeing
Team Building
Travel: Business Trips to UK
Gifts: New Year Gift, Birthday Gift, Welcome Box for New Starters
Career Path and Mentorship Program
Parental Leave: Maternity and Paternity Leave
Referral Program: Active Program with Great Bonuses
Relocation Support
Performance Review and Bonus
Medical Insurance and Sport Activities Compensation