Position: Engineering Manager
Company: Playson
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

Operating with scale and speed, we are on a lookout for an experienced **Engineering Manager** and well-formed mature professional in one persona. You will have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership, but also manage, guide and coordinate teams of developers. 

**To succeed in the role, you will have:**

- At least 3 years of experience in IT project management ( product companies)
- Experience in managing several teams simultaneously 
- Upper-Intermediate level of English both written and oral
- Goal-oriented mindset with a strong bias for action
- Oriented to scale but being able to make pragmatic choices
- Experience in forming business value-oriented teams
- Leadership attitude, meaning ability to encourage, motivate and lead people by example within daily interactions
- Excellent understanding of agile projects life-cycle
- Proven record of crisis-management experience 
- Ability to discuss technical/architecture topics with Product Owner and Architect
- Proven experience with different Agile methodologies, like SCRUM and Kanban etc, 
- Experience with task tracking systems (preferably Jira and Atlassian stack)
- Experience in dispute mediation and effective facilitation
- Experience to successfully lead remote or distributed teams
- Ability and willingness to learn and grow as a professional in the field

**Preferred additional qualifications:**
 
- Understanding of web applications architecture
- Experience in process modeling and description
- Technical background in any programming language
- Familiarity with OKR-based goal setting system
- Experience being a hiring manager
 
**What is your contribution?**

- Facilitate an effective execution environment
- Maximize the productivity of the teams
- Overseeing daily process bottlenecks 
- Suggest and implement best practices
- Contribute with the strategic vision
- Lead several projects at a time within SCRUM teams
- Provide the best processes and practices for the shortest delivery time
- People management
- Coordinate cooperation with internal teams and departments
- OKR-based goal-setting system maintenance within the teams
- Coordinate and resolve processes related issues

**What you get in return:**

- Environment of massive contribution via strategic team management and effective process setup
- **Competitive compensation fixed in USD**
- **Transparent bonus scheme after a successful trial period**
- Full taxation coverage from the company’s side
- Flexibility in your schedule (you decide when it is convenient for you to come to the office as long as it does not cripple down our development plans)
- Opportunity to work remotely on a pre-agreed basis
- Corporate English classes
- Unlimited paid vacation leave and Ukrainian bank holiday
- Paid sick leave in case of necessity
- Compensation of professional courses, events, meet-ups, etc.
- Corporate team-building events, corporate parties
- Opportunity to visit our corporate gym
- Unlimited fruits, fresh vegetables, snacks, tea and coffee in the office with soul and spirit.
 
**Up for a challenge? Then the right time to apply is now. Looking forward to talking about your career boost. **