Position: Software Development Manager, React
Company: Surprise.com
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

**What will you be doing?**

- Delivering projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently;
- Taking full ownership over a delegated Feature(s), as well as teams and resources, assigned to the Functional unit;
- Identifying key business objectives and providing solution recommendations while performing business proofs;
- Working with the Product Manager to define the roadmap for any given
- Feature and evaluating user stories from a technical perspective;
- Ensuring all delegated Features are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (alpha/beta/production);
- Setting up procedural guidelines to establish a successful delivery process;
- Ensuring that operations are cost-effective and stay within budget;
- Handling all challenges in support of company-wide projects/programs delivery in a form of efficient scoping, prioritization, and requested functionality delivery expedition;
- Mediating and resolving cross-team negotiation issues, acting as a point of escalation for stakeholders and team members;
- Orchestrating team/teams backlog and scope adjusting to strict deadlines and business goals;
- Implementing and maintaining Feature and team/teams KPIs, metrics, and operational excellence according to industry best practices;
- Acting as liaison officer between different teams to build partnerships and develop solutions.

**What are we looking for?**

- BA’s degree in science, engineering, technology architecture, database design, or software engineering;
- 8–10 years of experience in technology development, with at least five years spent on using software delivery management tools;
- Proven experience delivering software projects effectively;
- Strong ability to develop code using modern languages and frameworks, such as JavaScript;
- Established experience with project management programs, SCRUM, and different variants of AGILE techniques are also expected, along with familiarity with code management and Continuous Integration/Delivery Implementation (CI/DI);
- Experience working with React/Redux, React hooks, RxJs/MobX, Typescript;
- Strong analytical skills and data-oriented mindset;
- Excellent people management and communication skills;
- Understanding of feature teams structure;
- Experience with Front-end technologies;
- Understanding of testing approaches.

**About us**

At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything we touch to be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer-driven – engineering, product, and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end-user experience. We’re also home for numerous internal teams building internally facing tools for customer service, finance, and others, to keep the operation afloat.

**Benefits**

- Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
- Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
- Competitive salaries;
- Option of equity;
- Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
- Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver);
- Flexible working hours;
- Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
- English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
- Ability to travel to the US;
- Corporate activities and parties;
- Dedicated wellness area in the office;
- 20 working days of paid vacation;
- 15 days of paid sick leave;
And, of course, we use Surprise internally!