Engineering Manager

Skills & Requirements

Responsibility includes-

• People Management

  • Create a culture of an empowered employment ship and lead your team by example
  • Build team accountability through engineering- and team metrics
  • Manage personal development, salaries and recruitments
  • Provide onboarding support for new team members
  • Build and manage high performing teams with the right resource allocations, fit for the mission to develop the product according to the product strategy.
  • Accountable for the teams output, including technical design choices, quality and velocity, and for the teams delivering on their commitments and timelines.
  • Drive the team to define and conform to engineering best practices & standards through active involvement and hands-on tracking. Measure the quality of the deliverables using defined quality metrics and address issues that impact the quality of the deliverables from the engineers.
  • Actively involved in the technical and architectural discussions in the teams, and add value to the discussion with your own experience.
  • Communicate team progress and escalate issues to the direct manager, product management, and other stakeholders as needed.

• Manage relationships with the product owners and other stakeholders, including setting expectations regarding deliverables, product quality, schedules and costs. Ensure that team members are effectively communicating and collaborating within the organization.

• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement.

• Collaborate with colleagues, teams and projects distributed in different geographic locations.

Competence and experience :-
Requirements-

• 3-5 years of working experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role

• Passionate about management with the desire to develop both the team and yourself

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Fluent in English (written and spoken)

• Good organizational and analytical skills

• Interested in gaining good understanding of the product and its architecture

• Ability to engage people behind common goals and create commitment
• DevOps Mindset
  Build culture and shared understanding between development and operations, sharing responsibility for the software being build.

Technical skills-

Good working knowledge of most of these tools and technologies:

• Software Development
  • Java ( 8 & 11 )
  • Typescript and React
  • Git, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins
  • Ant (Gradle)
  • Familiar with IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ, VSCode)
  • Monoliths & Monorepo
  • CFX, Guice, Swing
  • AWS, Microservices
• Infrastructure & Operations
  • Linux (Ubuntu)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Apache HTTPD & Tomcat
  • AWS

Meet your Manager
Tellef Ormstad
Vice President of Engineering

How long have you worked for nShift?
17 years!

What do you love about nShift?
The possibility to deliver high quality products that help thousands of customers on a daily basis and the possibilities for professional growth within the company.
And all the great skilful people in nShift, located all over Europe!

What difference will this role make to nShift if I join?
By having this role you can contribute to building a collaborative and fun work environment whilst providing technical guidance, managing execution and ensuring the overall quality of one of the key products we deliver.