Position: Engineering Manager
Company: Skillers
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Overview**
An Engineering Manager is responsible for the overall development capability of an area of the platform. Specifically, the Engineering manager is responsible for the engineers that report to him, and their ability and effectiveness to design, build, and maintain their specific areas of responsibility of the platform. Each Engineering Manager should coordinate with other Engineering Managers to ensure alignment, or conscious misalignment, of practices and processes that facilitate and support the software development lifecycle. Each Engineering Manager should take direct responsibility for the assessment, guidance and development of each engineer that reports to them, and should do all that they can to help the engineers and their teams build great product.
The Engineering Manager will report to the Head of Engineering, and should collaborate and coordinate closely with key leaders in Infrastructure, Quality, and Process. Explicitly, all Engineering Managers should work closely together to ensure the best possible engineering function is created and maintained across all of development team.

**What is most important in this role?**
· Leads the engineers in technical practices, processes, and frameworks of development
· Ensures every engineer has a personal development plan and is regular assessed and consistently working to improve their skills
· Maintains a competent and functioning engineering organization that is able to design, build, deploy, and maintain the platform
· Facilitates building engineering teams that care about customers, security, reliability, maintainability, consistency, reusability, scalability, and other good engineering practices
· Works with Product and Engineering teams to ensure that created roadmaps are credible, achievable, and will deliver high value product increments
· Is forward-thinking, aware of new and upcoming technology, and helps ensure our software development capability is adequately future-proof and continually advancing forward

**Main responsibilities:**
· Provide technical input into the design and development process
· Ensuring an effective code review process
· Performance and security of the platform
· Provide technical leadership to your direct teams and individuals
· Support the maintenance and management of Azure environments
· Enhance and develop the skills of the development team
· Grow the development team and identify and nurture effective leaders
· Help build and grow self-organizing and self-managing high performing Scrum teams
· Help maintain the architecture to allow future development
· Monitor and introduce modern technologies and processes

**Key skills and technical knowledge:**
· .Net
· SQL Server
· Azure
· Angular framework
· Agile development
· Software architecture
· Deep technical understanding of full technological stack
· OWASP

**Key competencies:**
· Team management and motivation
· Individual coaching and mentoring
· Strong technical background
· Challenging the team to improve
· Recognize high performers and nurture
· Recognize and address poor performance
· Actively seeking ways to improve and do things better
 
**Benefits:**
· Stock options – discussable
· 20 paid holiday days per annum
· 5 paid sick days per annum
· Medical insurance
· English tuition
· In case if overtimes happen and approved - it is paid at a rate of 1.5 x salary
· In addition we fund a "motivation pack" to engage and motivate employees (this fund has been used for ski trips, birthday gifts, bonuses, events, paid courses etc).