Position: Head of Engineering
Company: Indigo Tech Recruiters
Experience required: 5y
Category: Product Manager
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our client is **a site-building platform with more than 13M users worldwide**. The company enables small businesses, non-profits, and everyday users to create, manage, and grow their online presence easily and with no technical knowledge. In addition to a robust, easy-to-use website builder and secure hosting services, its solution offers e-commerce and marketing solutions.

Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

**About the role**
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the entire engineering team management and effective team process implementation to grow the product according to the Roadmap. You’ll manage, guide, and coordinate a smart and experienced cross-functional engineering team that can solve any kind of technical and business problem.

We are a multinational company distributed within three continents, therefore advanced **English is a must**.

**Responsibilities:**
- Manage and mentor all members of the engineering department;
- Monitor the performance of individual contributors and help manage their professional development;
- Be in charge of Roadmap execution, and delivery commitments;
- Be a people manager, empowering the engineers to make the biggest impact possible for the company while reaching their professional development goals;
- Establish and maintain processes to ensure the Engineering team works efficiently (internally, and with other teams);
- Maximize team quality, teamwork, and team productivity;
- Plan Engineering team resources, build the best processes for the team, and analyze and eliminate defects in development processes and practices;
- Define and execute a hiring plan.

**Your Skills:**
- 5+ years of managing development teams experience (20+ team members);
- Has strong software engineering fundamentals and can grasp technical concepts quickly;
- Has a strong track record of building and leading productive engineering teams;
- Has the ability to systematically break ambiguous problems down and build execution plans;
- Must be an independent, self-motivated leader who is able to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results;
- Has experience with developers hiring and onboarding;
- Has experience in managing geographically distributed remote teams;
- Impeccable leadership, organizational, analytical, and time management skills;
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and mentoring;
- Advanced level using Jira / GitHub Issues;
- Excellent teamwork skills;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English);
- Is curious and has a learning mindset;
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.

**What we offer:**
- Opportunity to significantly influence our product roadmap and strategy, and technologies;
- Challenging work in the international professional environment;
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely;
- 20 paid vacation days per year;
- Paid sick leave;
- Team building events;
- Medical insurance;
- A social package, including gym membership, and English courses compensation (50%).