We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join Smartly and lead one of our engineering teams that is part of our 250+ Product and Engineering Organisation. 

As an Engineering Manager, your role is to ensure the team delivers the right things at the right time with high quality and clarity of purpose. You’ll focus on enabling your team to succeed through coaching, regular 1:1s, and personal development planning, while also actively identifying and removing blockers in their path. This is a great opportunity to shape a cornerstone product and lead a talented team at the intersection of creativity and technology.

Tech Stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka

Read more about the our developer ways of working: Engineering at Smartly

 What you’ll do:

• Build and lead an autonomous Fullstack development team. Lead by example.
• Facilitate the team at team level. Enable them.
• Care about your team members' growth and development. Go far together.
• Tackle ambitious technical problems and add your mark to our Engineering culture. Help us grow.

What we’re looking for:

• You are an experienced people leader with proven ability in building and leading high-performing teams
• You have experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with multiple teams
• You have built and maintained large-scale, high-availability web applications with an active and growing user base
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery.
• Ability to deliver constructive feedback that leads to meaningful changes and growth.
• Empathy and user-focused mentality: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them
• You are a skilled developer. You will need to be also hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Hiring Manager: Gain deeper insights into the role.
• Technical Interview: Engage in an interactive discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Leadership Skills: Final discussion will be focusing on your experience as a manager.