Engineering Manager (with Java)

at  SPD Technology

At SPD Technology, we bring together a team of like-minded people who are driven by the desire to bring value through their work, united in their commitment to high performance and delivering custom, cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients’ growth. We empower our people with a culture of excellence and enable them with the opportunity to uphold their accountability to contribute on each level. We value humanity and collaboration, encourage professional and personal growth, and foster a supportive and flexible work environment where everyone’s contribution is welcomed.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN ENGINEERING MANAGER TO JOIN US AS PART OF OUR TEAM.

About the role
As the Engineering Manager in PitchBook’s team, you will be responsible for providing software delivery capabilities by building and growing software engineering teams.
About the project
The team focuses on developing and maintaining systems that manage and analyze funds, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other investment instruments. The team ensures accurate data handling, efficient fund allocation processes, and supports investors in making informed decisions. Project is in active development.
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in London, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Serving clients in 19 languages, we provide thousands of global business professionals with comprehensive data on the private and public markets to help them discover and execute opportunities with confidence. Worldwide usage includes large corporations, start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, and many others. Features of PitchBook: Advanced search / Discovery & insights / Company profiles / Workflow & efficiency / Many more
Team
2-3 dedicated teams, average team 5-8 engineers.
Technical stack
Java 17+, k8s, Spring/Spring boot, OpenAPI, PostgreSQL, Kafka

As a qualified expert, You will

• Manage and grow several engineering teams with their leads within a business unit or product area
• Participate and supervise conversations on key technical decisions, delivery expectations, people allocation, collaboration with product managers and external stakeholders; be involved deeply into team’s work and provide assistance to customers when necessary.
• Absorb and embrace the business expectations and needs when communicating with senior stakeholders and convert it into actions
• Coach teams on best practices for software delivery Facilitate relationship with product, program, customer success and other teams, providing the feedback to the stakeholders
• Ensure teams have clear understanding of goals and priorities, along with maintaining excellence: fixing technical debt, doing improvements and providing innovations
• Keep high morale and motivation within teams even during complicated situations; facilitate a culture of care, mutual trust, help, transparency, and open-mindedness
• Systematically support and recognize team’s success, assist them in understanding, accepting and learning from fails
• Manage staffing: hire new team members according to company values, culture code, budget but keeping the highest professional bar possible; make hard decisions when “no go” cases happen.
• Monitor and maintain performance, receive and process feedback on the team holistically and at the personal level
• Drive performance assessment and honest compensation review for the team members

We’re looking for you if you have

• 5+ years of experience in software development, primarily with Java stack
• 2+ years of experience in managing teams (or big team, 15+) in modern software development company with focus on result and efficiency
• Understanding and experience with a typical SDLC, Agile frameworks and their trade-offs
• Understanding and experience with modern software engineering technologies and their major pros/cons
• Humanity, empathy which are aligned with performance, business acumen, cost analysis, setting clear expectations and giving constructive feedback
• Be open-minded and capable to learn from the experience as well as courage of making decisions which lead to desired future state
• Excellent communication skills in English and native language, written and verbal. You can explain your idea to any engineer or manager and perceive valuable feedback

Nice to Have

• Experience in leading development of complex, distributed software systems requiring deep domain or technical expertise
• Experience with Scrum or Agile at scale
• Experience with metric based team management: motivation, performance, time analysis, etc

What’s in it for You

EXPERIENCE AN AGILE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Enjoy the freedom of fully remote work with a flexible working schedule. Empower yourself with a stable workload and a stable income, supported by provided laptops and licensed software. We focus on lasting cooperation and unite result-oriented individuals who stand on a high-performance approach to work.

Please refer the Job description for details