Senior Engineering Manager

We are establishing R&D center in Kyiv and looking for talents to join our team.  We expect this manager to work closely with the team's current Product Owners, Delivery and Project managers, Architects while owning the engineering roadmap and providing career guidance to the team. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading teams of engineers and accelerating their growth by providing thoughtful feedback, technical mentorship, and effectively manage performance 
• Working hands-on with your team and stakeholders to enable rapid delivery of features and technical solutions that make a positive user impact;  
• Collaborating with business leads across the company to define milestones and deliveries for new functionality to be added to existing applications
• Work with your teams under tough deadlines to design, build, and deliver projects.
• Ensure processes and training are in place for continuous improvement in our services  
• Continuously work towards improving team efficiency and engineering capacity by improving the flow and addressing technical debt in our products and processes

REQUIREMENTS

• You are a strong motivator, leader, team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees 
• You bring about 7+ years of experience as a technology leader with a proven track record of leading Engineering teams  
• Experience working with stakeholders and contributing to product definition.  
• Profound knowledge in parts of our tech stack - Java, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis / Aerospike, Relational & NoSQL Databases  
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus  
• Understanding of large scale, distributed systems, microservice architecture  
• Experience in recruiting, retaining and inspiring highly effective software engineering teams