Engineering Manager Platform Job in Celigo

Your Role

• Celigo is looking for an experienced Engineering manager to lead one of our Platform teams. Our platforms are built to be highly available and scalable supporting large-scale transactions.
• Our criteria of a successful engineering leader is one who understands the business landscape, is excited to work with people, highly collaborative, energetic, passionate about our product & our customers, and at the same time technically strong & loves technology.
• You will manage and lead a team of high-caliber developers working on one of our important platform areas.
• We expect our Engineering Managers to be customer focused, have an excellent grasp on business priorities, and be able to translate the team s contributions to tangible business value for our company. They are passionate about hiring & grooming high quality talent, keeping them focused & motivated and representing the team to leadership. They should possess stellar delivery execution skills, build good relationships with Product Management, have a good understanding of ROI, manage the technical team s roadmap and keep technical debt under control.

Who are we looking for?

• Masters/Bachelors degree required in Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering or Equivalent discipline (EEE, ECE).
• 12+ years of total experience in Software Product Development with at least 6 years of team management experience in leading.
• Experience building and leading team(s) of high-caliber software engineers.
• Must have successfully delivered complex, demanding projects for large scale SaaS product(s).
• Experience working in an Agile development environment. Experience playing the scrum master for at least one year is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Experience with full product life cycle including post production release support.
• Experience working with multiple functions including but not limited to Product Management, Program Management, Quality Assurance, UI/UX design teams, Documentation, Customer Success teams (including Support).
• Should be experienced in Software Engineering best practices including coding standards, code-reviews, Source Control, CI/CD, Testing, Security Standards, Compliance.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and comfortable working with minimal specifications.

What would you do, if hired?

• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with program managers, product owners, engineers (Dev & QA), architects and other cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to align on business objectives, priorities, trade-offs and assess risks, if any.
• Take critical decisions for the team whenever required to result in a successful product delivery.
• Should foresee issues and prevent/resolve them at the earliest opportunity.
• Work following Agile development methodologies using various related tools, like JIRA.
• Ensure the team is motivated, focused, clear on priorities and have all the needed resources for successful execution. Should encourage and be a role-model for the team to go above and beyond.
• Represent the team in business related discussions and articulate business values of the team s contributions in larger business-focused forums and/or to senior management.
• Drive technical excellence and high quality deliverables. Should constantly think for the future by building the right infrastructure at the right time.
• Provide guidance, career development and coaching to team members.
• Participate in planning, architecture, and design discussions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for coordination, planning, design decisions, and reviews.

The Best candidate?

• Is passionate about making a world-class software organization.
• Has experience building large-scale distributed platforms either as part of a team or must have managed a team building them.
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment, working with a highly-talented team and shifting priorities.
• Has excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Is great at making data-driven decisions; should use appropriate metrics and report using them in Executive/senior leadership meetings.
• Is comfortable in designing and implementing new processes (or) modify existing processes internally to improve the efficiency of the team.
• Has the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and key partners for the program.
• Has strong business and technical vision.
• Can stay abstract or detail oriented as the situation demands.
• Has demonstrated the ability of thinking big, bringing new ideas, building teams & infrastructure for the future.
• Learns quickly; must know when to listen, and when to take charge.