Position: Engineering Manager, Python
Company: Surprise.com
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**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;
- Handling all challenges in support of company-wide projects/programs delivered 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?**

- 8–10 years of experience in technology development, with at least five years spent on using Python;
- 3+ years of experience managing teams in a fast paced, agile environment;
- Proven experience developing software projects effectively;
- Strong ability to develop code using modern languages and frameworks, such as Python with any web framework (Fast API is preferable);
- 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 distributed microservice systems;
- Strong analytical skills and result oriented mindset;
- Sense of product ownership.

**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;
- Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
- Ultramodern offices in the heart of Lviv (Magnus);
- 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!