Position: Engineering Manager (R&D)
Company: Playson
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

The right candidate will lead an RnD Team to shape and deliver a new generation of Playson products such as analytics, integration, data processing, serverless, networking, security, data compression, user interface design. The list goes on and is growing every day.

**To succeed in the role, you will have:**

- 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams (mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, etc.).
- 5+ years of hands-on programming experience in one of the following: PHP, Java, Node.js, C++ or Python.
- Large systems software design and development experience, including experience in Unix/Linux
- Practical experience with software engineering best practices
- Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing products experience.
- Has a track record of Agile processes set up and service development
- Team management and recruitment experience
- Proven track record of delivering successfully within strict timelines.
- Excellent organization, prioritization and communication skills
- Upper-Intermediate level of English both written and oral
- Experience with task tracking systems (preferably Jira and Atlassian stack)

**What is your contribution?**

- Facilitate an effective execution environment for the RnD team
- Contribute to product strategy, grasp and drive architecture decisions
- Design large-scale solutions across various cloud and open source tools to resolve challenging problems for our internal, external customers
- Lead the team and company on Scrum and value-driven product development techniques
- Facilitate definition of done (DoD) negotiations enabling higher product quality and continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD)
- Facilitate consensus-building activities and conflict resolution in order to improve team effectiveness.
- Report progress, risks or issues to stakeholders
- Proactively and reactively remove impediments while ensuring root causes are addressed
- People management and recruitment of the new team members
- Coordinate cooperation with internal teams and departments
- OKR-based goal-setting system maintenance within the teams

**Why do we all choose Playson?** 🤩

- **Competitive salary fixed in USD with yearly performance reviews**
- **Transparent bonus system on a quarterly basis**
- Private Entrepreneur formalisation
- Full taxation coverage from the company’s side
- Flexibility in your schedule (you decide when it is convenient for you to come to the office as long as it does not cripple down our development plans)
- **Full Medical Insurance for you and your +1**
- Special Life Event financial support
- **Relocation to Cyprus**
- **Unlimited paid vacation leave and Ukrainian bank holidays**
- Unlimited paid sick leave in case of necessity
- Development courses/training reimbursement
- Online Corporate English classes
- Corporate team-building events, corporate parties
- Employee Referral bonus program and much more
- Legendary corporate parties and team buildings

This is **THE fostering environment you have been looking for** — let’s discuss how your talents can contribute to massive success. The time to apply is now.