WHAT YOU WILL BE CHALLENGED WITH

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• Leading and developing a team of software engineers working on distributed microservices in a fast-paced SaaS environment
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• Promoting individual development and fostering a healthy, inclusive team culture
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• Partnering closely with Product, your Team Lead, Delivery Manager and other Engineering Managers to ensure alignment on priorities and roadmap delivery
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• Driving team delivery: designing and improving how the team plans, commits and ships; facilitating planning together with the Delivery Manager; unblocking the team and making delivery predictable.
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• Coaching, mentoring and supporting engineers in their growth through continuous feedback and structured development plans
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• Helping shape and steward long-term engineering practices in collaboration with Staff Engineers and senior leadership
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• Contributing to hiring efforts, onboarding programs and building a strong, diverse engineering organisation
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• Identifying and removing systemic bottlenecks in how your team works, and improving communication with the teams you depend on
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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

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• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams through coaching, feedback and clear expectation-setting
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• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals (software architecture, microservices, cloud-native systems) and the ability to support technical discussions
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• Experience with Agile delivery practices (Scrum or Kanban) and a track record of improving team effectiveness
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• A track record of changing how a team works, not just running the process it already has and the habit of knowing what you'd measure to tell whether the change worked
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• Ability to balance people leadership, delivery management and long-term strategic thinking
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• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and collaborate with product-oriented stakeholders
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• A great passion for enabling others to succeed, building teams and fostering a healthy engineering culture
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• Experience with Typescript, Python or Go are a plus
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• Fluency in English, both written and spoken; German is a plus
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