Your Mission
We are looking for a world-class Engineering Manager to lead a couple of small to mid-sized teams building our suite of SaaS digital advertisement products, powered by our ecosystem of loosely coupled NodeJS Microservices. You'll focus on guiding and upleveling Frontend and Backend Engineers. You'll regularly pair up with others, perform code reviews, plan out tasks and projects, estimate workloads, and provide guidance for others doing the same. You'll be working closely with Product Design, Product Management, and our Architects to elevate quality and reliability of development as well as the overall engineering culture.
To ensure success as an Engineering Manager at Factor-Eleven, ideally you should have some knowledge of Typescript and NodeJS-based services. Any experience with AWS, Kafka, and GraphQL is a plus. You'll occasionally be hands-on, demonstrating great mentoring skills, team spirit, and leadership abilities, resonating a highly positive impact on those around you. An accomplished Engineering Manager will be someone who effectively and permanently raises the bar of the teams he/she joins, resulting in a department-wide improvement of quality, reliability, scalability, and culture.
Your Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional teams in the conceptualization and implementation of complex features and services
Stay 50% hands-on! We believe the only way to be a great Engineering Manager is to continue to be a great engineer.
Mentor and provide career guidance to the engineers on your teams
Collaborate with peers, within and outside the team, to help develop a long-term vision for our engineering practices and tooling.
Consistently lead teams to deliver compelling products, features, and services, providing transparent updates, timeline estimates, and demos along the way
Participate in defining and fulfilling the engineering hiring plan for the team, including screening and interviewing
Help ensure that our coding standards and patterns are observed by participating in design discussions, testing, and code reviews
Assist our support and operations teams in triaging and resolving production issues
Conduct 1:1s and performance discussions with team members
Develop high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, secure, and efficient code
Recommend and implement improvements to processes and technologies
Keep informed of advancements in technologies including Node.js and AWS
Write and review tasks and estimate workloads for yourself and others
Requirements
Your Profile
10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
2+ years of engineering leadership experience guiding productive, high-functioning teams, with examples of how these teams were high functioning and your role in ensuring their productivity
You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability, security, and reliability
You are a strong communicator, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers, and comfortable with difficult, constructive conversations
You possess strong fundamentals in computer science: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval, applied at significant scale
Experience in cross-team, cross-discipline strategic planning and architectural design
Experience in organizing, planning, and delivering workshops, fostering a growth and quality-focused culture
Excellent proficiency in NodeJS with TypeScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
High familiarity with design principles behind scalable applications
Knowledge of event-driven architecture, message busses, and pub/sub systems
Proven expertise in automated and unit testing best practices
Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent project management, organizational, and time management skills
Extensive experience mentoring teammates in a respectful, educative manner
Benefits - Why Us?
Factor Eleven's tech department is responsible for our SaaS product suite offering localized digital advertising to enterprises of all sizes. We're powering the engine that Factor Eleven is built upon and continuously elevating our product's capabilities. Join our mission to advance digital localized advertising and enjoy the perks of our fully remote operations.
Our Perks Benefits
Transparent, above-market salaries
100% remote within Europe
Flexible work-hours and part-time options
Be part of a fast-growing, highly-skilled team
In-person department and company events
Home office, co-working space, and work-together allowance
Personal and professional development courses from Udemy
Case-by-case relocation and visa support
Please note: You need to reside in and hold a work permit for a country in the European Union to be considered for this role.
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