Engineering Manager - Assessment Software

About the Company :

The Client is a AI-powered developer assessment software that helps companies accurately measure a developer's skills through online coding tests. It has more than 500+ customers across the globe with many of the fortune 1000 names in the list like Walmart, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft etc.

Role: Engineering Manager

Location: Bangalore

Job Description:

1. Responsible for mapping business objectives to an optimum engineering structure, including correct estimation of resource allocation.

2. Responsible for key technical and product decisions. Provide direction and mentorship to the team. Set up best practices for engineering.

3. Work closely with the Product Manager and help them in getting relevant inputs from the engineering team.

4. Plan and track the development and release schedules, proactively assess, and mitigate risks. Prepare for contingencies and provide visible leadership in crisis.

5. Work closely with engineers, conduct their 1:1s, understand their requirements, and facilitate an environment where each engineer is happy and productive.

6. Work individually with engineers and help them with correct time estimation and scoping o tasks.

7. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of various engineers, and then map projects to career paths of various engineers.

8. Conduct regular 1:1s for performance feedback and lead their appraisals.

9. Responsible for driving good coding practices in the team like good quality code, documentation, timely bug fixing etc.

10. Be responsible for product metrics and drive them in the team.

11. Interact with other engineering teams, facilitate discussion among them and provide a framework for inter-team collaboration.

12. Build teams, hire the best talent with the right dynamics. Foster a result-oriented, performance-driven culture by setting clear goals, career paths, core competencies, reward and recognition mechanisms for the engineering team.

13. Create and maintain an open and transparent environment that values speed and innovation, motivates engineers to build innovative and effective systems rapidly.

Required Skills:

1. 8+ years of strong experience in full-stack software product development, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership positions.

2. Technically hands-on with prior experience in at least one compiled language (C, Java), one dynamic scripting language (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl), web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript), and database technologies (SQL & NoSQL).

3. Experience with architecture, high and low-level technical design.

4. Experience working with high-performance technical teams and the ability to create a culture based on those best practices.

5. Experience working with Product Managers and UX Designers

6. Excellent people manager. Strong in building relationships and collaborating with others.

7. A strong vision and ability to deliver quickly in fast-paced startup culture.