Position: Senior Engineering Manager (Pro Marketplace Solution Architect)
Company: BlaBlaCar
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Your mission**
As Sr Engineering Manager Ukraine, you will own the architecture, tech roadmap, and tech stack of Global Pro Marketplace product portfolio, which basically is a set of interconnected products, used globally for aggregating, managing, and selling transport inventory from different sources by millions of users. You will have several engineering managers reporting to you, looking at yourself as an example and domain expert. They are working in pairs with product managers, developing the solutions via several of their teams.

** Your responsibilities:**
- Analyze current technologies used within the Pro Marketplace product portfolio, determine ways to grow scalable and flexible products;
- Lead the integration with Blablacar Foundations;
- Define clear goals for all aspects of Pro Marketplace products, and steer their proper design and execution;
- Work closely with team management to successfully monitor the progress of all technical initiatives;
- Guide the architecture of global distribution system for ground transportation

**Your qualifications:**
- Commercial experience in solution architecture design (more than 2 years): develop long-lasting relationships; leading and supporting medium to large size solution delivery projects; analysis of business, product, and technology requirements.
- Excellent business, and communication skills.
- Experience in managing engineering managers, team leaders.
- Management of engineering budgets, experience working with outsourcing vendors.
- Fluent Professional English.
- Relevant experience in software development with Java (more than 5 years).
- Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment, and project management.
- Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory: Paradigm & Principles; Database theory; Code testing practices; Algorithms; Architectural & Enterprise Patterns; Design patterns; Deployment patterns; Security patterns, computer security, and networking vulnerability.
- Understanding of network interactions and protocols, conventions.
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration.
- Practical experience with: Highload systems (e.g. E-Commerce platforms); Cloud technologies (GCP and AWS); Microservices and Serverless architecture; RDBMS / NoSQL / Key-value storages; Messaging systems; Version control systems (GIT); CI/CD tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, etc.).

**Nice to have:**
- Certifications on: Architecture framework (SEI, TOGAF, etc.); Cloud providers (AWS, GCP); Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc).
- Experience with: Release Management tools & Configuration Management tools and Infrastructure as code tools.

**Your future benefits:**
- Top of the market employment terms and conditions incl. meals and transportation allowance
- 100% coverage for health care insurance
- 50% coverage for spouse & children health care insurance
- 100% salary reimbursement for maternity leave
- 100% salary reimbursement for 1-month paternity leave
- The choice between the latest Mac or PC equipment
- Possibility to work full remote anywhere in Ukraine (even after the Covid crisis)
- Learning opportunities through trainings, Free English courses, Conferences