WHO WE ARE…

At Trustonic our products are making a difference across the world. One moment we’re ensuring low-income families worldwide can access the life-changing benefits of an internet-enabled smartphone. The next we’re protecting the safety and integrity of the vehicles we drive and the devices we care about.
We pride ourselves on living by the Trustonic culture code, a blueprint for our journey that recognises that great working environments don’t guarantee success, but bad ones almost always ensure failure.
Working here, you’ll find a company that celebrates its diversity and is looking to do the right thing: for each other, the community and the planet. We believe in equal opportunities and take to heart the old African proverb ’If you only want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together’.
We work flexibly when and where we’re at our best, but regardless of how you choose to work, we’ll make sure you feel like one of the team.
Click here if you would like to find out more about Trustonic’s culture code.
If you would like to work in a fast-moving global technology company, with great ambition, then we’d love to hear from you!
Job Description
Reporting to the Americas Lab Director, we are looking for an Engineering Manager for our development lab in Colombia. You will be part of the Product & Development team responsible for building and maintaining our SaaS platform and services, serving customers throughout Latam. You will work with the broader technical, support and product team whilst collaborating with strategic outsourced partners and customers. You will be more focused on the end to end technical aspects of our platform.

A BIT ABOUT THE TEAM AND WHAT YOU’LL DELIVER…

As an engineering leader within our Product Development team, you will be at the heart of the business collaboratively responsible for leading the engineering team in Colombia. You will work with various stakeholders, whilst driving the engineering teams to work through the technology components that build out the platform, inline with customer needs.
Reporting to our Chief Product Development Officer, we are looking for a individual with demonstrable engineering, technical and operational leadership experience in on-prem and cloud based services.

As an Engineering Manager you will:

• Build and maintain an engineering strategy that augments our product strategy, and furthers the platform technology strategy
• Create an inspiring work environment and drive for engineering excellence
• Participate in our product, design and engineering leadership team to ensure engineering initiatives are appropriately represented in planning and in product roadmaps
• Ensure that the performance of all engineering teams is actively measured and monitored, and identify and resolve impediments as quickly as possible
• Grow your teams by ensuring the right training and tooling is available to teams to balance working styles, experience, capability and career aspirations
• Lead your direct reports and enable them to thrive in the organisation, support them in their career development and goals
• Collaborate with your peers in other areas to share knowledge and work on common initiatives

EXPERIENCE:

• 7+ years of software engineering and technology management experience with a minimum of 3+ years in a engineering leadership role architecture and decision making.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills.
• Ability to effectively and clearly communicate software engineering concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated history of hiring, developing, retaining and upgrading technical talent including the management of globally distributed teams.
• Experience with integrating with partner solutions and acquired technologies.
• Experienced at modernising legacy systems including the technical and change management aspects that accompany transformative change.
• Poise and ability to act calmly and competently in high-pressure, high-stress situations.
• Must be a critical thinker, with strong problem-solving skills, project management skills: financial/budget management, scheduling, and resource management.
• A strong solution orientation with a penchant for not only identifying problems but also finding ways of solving them within typical business constraints.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve strategic goals.
• Ability to professionally handle confidential matters and show an appropriate level of judgment and maturity.
• High degree of initiative and ability to work with little supervision.

KNOWLEDGE:

• Azure, Oracle, AWS development environment and cloud platforms eco-systems
• Awareness of security platforms
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC) and other critical tools/systems
• Android, mobile OEMS and cloud platforms

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• use of JIRA and other engineering tools

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience
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Trustonic is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on any grounds. We empower, engage, enable and value differences between people, including; different races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, disabilities and sexual orientations, with differences in education, backgrounds, skill sets, experiences and knowledge

Please refer the Job description for details