Position: Engineering Manager
Company: Preply.com
Category: Lead
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Preply is a fast-growing ed-tech company, backed by Europe's most prominent investors. Since 2012 we are building a global human-to-human online tutoring marketplace with locations in Kyiv and Barcelona.

We work in small cross-functional teams to continuously improve and scale user experience. At Preply, we challenge each other to learn more and faster and promote a growth mindset in our daily work. We guarantee a friendly and multinational atmosphere within the team that you’ll fall in love with.

**Mission:** Lead and align engineering team with Preply vision. The manager main function is not about executing everything by their self, but rather setting up a favorable environment that will improve the execution process and make it more efficient over time. Engineers from 3-5 product squads(~20 people) will report to this position.

**Outcomes:**
- Interview new candidates and schedule 1:1 with existing employees, perform quarter reviews and salary reviews. We plan to grow from 35 to 70 developers within the next year;
- Together with HR & Product teams, co-lead engineers on-boarding to product & growth mindsets;
- Develop, inspire, mentor, and evaluate the engineering team. Ensure dev. culture to be customer centric;
- Define, measure, and improve developers goals, ensure OKR completion > 80%;
- Work with QA-team lead, DevOps, tech-leads, business analyst to improve the development process. Work on TTM metric;
- Improve engineering quality and efficiency (e.g. improve workflow, code review, etc.);
- Create positive team culture (e.g. curious, mutually challenging, collaborative);
- Co-lead developing a strong Employer Brand for engineers globally via engineering blog and meetups;
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers and leaders to deliver projects.

**Competencies:**
- 2+ years of experience as Engineering Manager.
- Exceptional communication skills;
- Business sense, entrepreneurial spirit;
- Experience in building, leading and scaling development teams;
- Developer’s background;
- Ability to speak two “languages”: language of business and tech. language;
- Technical proficiency, strong awareness of current mobile & web technologies, trends, products, tools, and design standards;
- Experience in Product Development in an online marketplace business or fast-growing internet startups with a strong focus on customers and growth is an advantage.