Position: Head of Engineering
Company: Syndicode
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Syndicode is looking for a Head of Engineer who’ll be responsible for all areas of the Engineering function and quality of service delivery, empowering and guiding engineering teams.

**🌟 What you’ll get at Syndicode**

- Fully remote job and flexible working hours
- Coverage of health insurance or annual health check-ups
- Opportunity for professional growth and development
- Competitive compensation, regular reviews
- Fixed annual balance for sports
- 15 days of vacation, 11 days off for holidays, and 20 sick leave days per year
- Internal tech meetups and education
- Positive work environment, friendly, collaborative, and professional teammates
 

**⚡️ Areas of responsibility**

** People**
- Act as a direct manager for Engineers and Technical Team leads. Hire, train, supervise and motivate TLs, be responsible for their professional development and software deliverables
- Guides TL and engineers on what the current development priorities are, in which direction the group and company are heading, what are the group’s customers' needs etc.
- Contribution to the development of the engineering strategy
- Performance assessment and performance management and implementation of PDP’s
- Work closely with other departments on different strategic initiatives, and projects
- Implementation of data security and business contingency process and configuration management

**Technology & Infrastructure**
- Be responsible for the software development and delivery process, foresee potential risks, analyze critical production issues and involve relevant teams to solve them
- Serve as an architect for the group’s technical domain:
- Analyze complex features thoroughly from various angles
- Provide guidance to Team Leads and other relevant engineers in selecting frameworks, platforms, or tech-stack that should be used to create a solution
- Make final architectural decisions when required
- Ensure all developed solutions are scalable and maintainable for the future
- Figure out the risks in using third-party frameworks/platforms
- Support the teams, Team leads and PMs in the solutions development and deployment processes
- Spearhead various R&D initiatives to identify opportunities for new features and improvement
- Contributing to the expansion of the product portfolio

**Processes and standards**
- Constantly work on optimizing the processes, tools, and standards within the group in order to achieve business goals and timelines with a high degree of confidence and efficiency, including:
- Processes
- Development lifecycle and tools
- Coding standard
- Configuration management
- Quality standards
- Suggests changes to the group’s organizational structure, uses processes and methodologies to the higher management when required
 
**💼 Required skills and experience**

- 7+ years of experience in software engineering and 3+ years of engineering management and hands-on experience
- Experience leading and developing medium-size engineering operations
- Strong leadership and communication skills with proven capability to build effective technical teams and develop Team Leads
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills
- Strong time management, problem-solving and prioritization skills
- Be fluent in English, both verbal and written
 
**⭐️ Why Syndicode?**

- Dynamic fast-growing environment: we react and adapt quickly to the world’s and market changes, meanwhile we don’t forget to take care of our employees’ needs
- We hear and implement your ideas: ability to participate in decision-making, bring new ideas
- Self-management: opportunity to manage your time and plan your activities
- Continuous feedback within teams and departments.