Engineering Manager - Docketwise

An important part of our engineering culture at AffiniPay is to build and grow teams that do their best work, and our Engineering Managers play an important role in supporting this.
As an Engineering Manager for our Docketwise Practice Management Team, you will be a critical part of leading the development, expansion and maintenance of Docketwise's products and services. Docketwise is vital to the success of our business and plays a critical role in our customer's operations and practice.
Your role will be a blend of leading and supporting software engineers, collaborating with product and design and be part of the greater practice management leadership team. You will be involved in key decision making, solving business and technical problems for the company as well as refining the technology and product roadmap.
In the longer term, success in this role looks like a cohesive, high-functioning, and diverse group of software engineers who help each other deliver high-quality software on predictable timelines.
What You'll Do:

• Partner with product, technology, and analytics stakeholders to balance an aggressive roadmap against engineering best practices and principals.
• Refine a broader strategy for cultivating an engineering organization of excellence
• Define strategic collaboration process and manage multiple products and services
• Collaborate with UX to modernize our product lines
• Collaborate with Architecture team to bring technology best practices to the engineering organization
• Ability to manage, grow and enable best in class engineering team and structure
• Contribute and help design/review/decide on key technological decisions
• Ability to get hands on with software development and provide code reviews in the following technologies: Javascript/TypeScript, React, VueJS, Ruby on Rails, MySQL
• Continuously improve output and productivity across team
• Coach a team of skilled engineers and contractors and create a culture of safety, high trust, and openness where people learn and strive to improve.
• Build multiple teams while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Guide the team with technology decisions and best practices using their experience with a variety of development technologies and languages.
• Facilitate the design, development, and delivery of secure, flexible, and scalable software.
• Participate regularly in strategic planning discussions to provide insightful ideas on process improvements and challenges with ambiguous specifications.
• Steer the team in troubleshooting production issues, ensuring there is proper test case coverage and leading to resolution of bugs in new and existing code.
• Determine project scope, limitations, and capabilities and make project-specific recommendations to assist the engineering team with successful project completion.
• Strong ability to break down large, complex problems into small, simpler ones to solve technical and business problems.
• Communicate well with multiple engineering teams as well as with leadership across product and project stakeholders as well as other leadership and executives within AffiniPay.

About You:

• Minimum of 5 years experience directly leading and managing software developers.
• Minimum of 7 years building large scale software
• Proficient in modern frontend technologies such as React, VueJS
• Proficient with Ruby on Rails
• Significant experience with addressing interpersonal conflicts/critical issues, organizing resources to meet strategic goals, mentoring/coaching employees, conducting employee performance evaluations, and recruiting/retaining talent.
• Experience with a variety of technologies, languages, making good technical and business decisions, and balancing technical debt with feature work.
• Experience setting up, running, and completing large scale, cross-team engineering projects successfully, including predicting dates with a large degree of accuracy and negotiating requirements.
• Excellent leadership, communication, prioritization, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong experience with resolving conflict and building trust within and between teams.
• A track record of building and managing high-functioning, inclusive, diverse, and productive teams.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD
• Preferred location: Bogota, Colombia or Medellin, Colombia