Position: Engineering Manager
Company: Wild.Codes
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2023-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

**ABOUT OUR CLIENT**

Our client's company has with international acknowledgment pioneered and inspired global trends in Insurtech since 2010. As the inventor of peer-to-peer insurance, they developed the claims-free bonus. With the new brand Business, they are pioneering another mission: the digitization of insurance services for banks or insurance companies and their customers. Through partnerships with leading banks and insurance companies like Deutsche Bank, they make a smart home for insurance available directly in these partners' digital solutions. Through their sophisticated, scalable, and modular insurance platform, they aim to make insurance more customer-friendly.

They are over 100 team members from more than 20 nations working from their headquarters in Berlin and from other external bases. They take pride in their agile culture. They have been part of Berlin's top employer and office ratings for several years.

**We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the client's growing technology team.**

In this position, **you will lead 2-3 cross-functional product teams** and **report directly to the CTO/CDO**. Also, **you will provide technical direction**, **coaching**, and **ongoing leadership** for your teams.

**YOUR PROFILE**

⚫️ You have been **leading a cross-functional team as an Engineering manager** and **have experience managing managers for 3+ years**
⚫️ You are **an experienced software engineer for 5+ years** developing high-performance, stable, and scalable software
⚫️ You can lead development from initial concept through production and understand technological concepts, as well as be hands-on on some topics when needed
⚫️ Your engineering experience is based especially on backend and infrastructure technologies - Java and AWS.
⚫️ You love to work with people as well as technology and know that mentoring, motivating, and inspiring people create an engaged, fun, and productive team
⚫️ You truly believe in and are a master of Agile methodologies
⚫️ You recognize and promote the importance of having a good monitoring and alerting system
⚫️ You highly value the quality of software and believe in test automation
⚫️ You have a strong capability and knowledge of designing, discussing, and reviewing multiple types of architectures - e.g. microservices, serverless, event-driven
⚫️ You like to share knowledge with others
⚫️ You know how to assess and implement security measurements in the systems
⚫️ Experience in frontend technologies is a plus
⚫️ You are familiar with and have experience with the majority of the client's technological stack

**YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES**

🔵 You are an active part of the Technology Leadership team setting the technical direction, encouraging the team to innovate and invent
🔵 You lead several Team Leads as your direct reporting line toward the success of their Agile squads
🔵 You work together with the Product Management Team translating product and business vision into technical language
🔵 You remove obstacles, connect people, align with stakeholders, lead your team by example, and measure the health of your teams
🔵 You are the focal point of contact for some of the client's external partners and providers - e.g. Penetration testing providers, AWS, Banks, Insurance Companies
🔵 You assure the best engineering quality, design principles, and best practices are followed and considered - e.g. Clean Code, SOLID
🔵 You build and grow your engineering teams by driving the entire hiring process, coaching, and mentoring
🔵 You are a key member of the technical guilds, including the architecture guild, which is the place where professional assessments and approvals of new architectures are made

**OUR CLIENT'S TECHNOLOGIES, TOOLS, AND PROCESSES**

**Back End:** Java, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL
**Front End:** TypeScript, ReactJS, Redux, SASS
**Testing:** Selenium, Serenity, JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha
**Build and Deploy:** Jenkins, Git, npm, Maven
**Infrastructure:** AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, EKS, MSK, Istio
**Agile Methodologies:** Scrum, Kanban

**OUR OFFER**

⚫️ Work with a team of Pioneers that is not afraid of change and constantly pushes the boundaries of digitization in the insurance industry - but also knows how to have fun
⚫️ Experience full flexibility by working where it suits you (work from anywhere remotely)

**If this sounds like the perfect match for you, don't hesitate! Jump right in and submit your application. Get ready to rock this opportunity!**