Do you want to change the world? At Cabify, that’s what we’re doing. We aim to make cities better places to live by improving mobility for the people living in them, connecting riders to drivers at the touch of a button. Maybe one day cities will be places where nobody needs a private car. But we’ve still got a long way to go...fancy joining us?
About the role
As an Engineering Manager at Cabify, you will be responsible for leading and guiding the most important part of our engineering organization - our people.
They have high interaction with other teams and business areas. This means nurturing our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams.
All these tasks deeply impact Cabify ability to be a profitable business, and they involve processing data in high volumes with precision and speed, offering a unique challenge from a purely engineering point of view.
We practice have strong ownership of our services, continuous integration, strive for high observability, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.
Prior to taking on engineering management, you likely were a senior individual contributor with a comprehensive understanding of complex systems that you were a vital part of developing & launching over the years. This has given you the perspective to help other engineers prioritise their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challenges.
You will:
- Lead a team of diverse and talented software engineers with different levels of expertise
- Drive technical projects to success and provide leadership in a fast-paced environment
- Think critically about the long-term career development of team members
- Conduct regular check-ins and 1-1s with team members
- Communicate across cross-functional teams such as Product, Analytics, Marketing, Creative, and Design
- Lead prioritization efforts and provide mentorship to others
- Be the Best Friend of team’s Product Manager, working in tandem to analyze problems and execution plans
- Deeply care about the happiness of others
- Directly report (and get support from) the Head of Engineering of your group
Our Ideal candidate has:
- Great alignment with our principles, we take this very seriously.
- A knack for effective and clear communication in all circumstances
- Hands-on people management and/or technical leadership experience
- A passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity
- Extensive professional experience in backend software development, working on robust, complex systems that serve a high volume of users
- An appreciation for engineering best practices and quality over quantity of work
Bonus Points:
- Ability to handle ambiguous problems and make the tradeoffs without compromising quality
- Experience working with remote and partially remote team members
- Ability to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, microservices, and relational/NoSQL/cloud databases
- Experience in Ruby, Go and/or Elixir
- Experience in modern frontend development using some framework and library like React, Angular or Vue.
- Experience with distributed system communication, performance analysis, and optimization
What’s it like to work at Cabify?
We’re a company full of happy, motivated people and we never want that to change. Here are some more reasons why it rocks to be part of our high-perfomance team:
💶Excellent Salary conditions: Up to 72K€
🏝️Recharge days: 10 Fridays off annually.
🌍Our office is located in Madrid. This position is open to a full remote and also to a partially onsite model.
⌚Flexible work environment & hours.
🙌Regular team events.
🚗Cabify staff free rides.
🚀Personal development programs based on our career paths.
📚Annual budget for training
🧘♀️ iFeel: Free access to the iFeel platform, so you can take care of your emotional well-being through therapy sessions.
📐Coursera: your own license in Coursera to take as many courses as you wish and continue developing your skills.
💳Flexible compensation plan: Restaurant tickets, transport tickets, healthcare and childcare
🐱A pet room ,so you don’t have to leave your furry friend at home
☕️And last but not least...free coffee and fruit!
Cabify is proud of being an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees regardless of background, gender, religion, orientation, age or ability. Join us!
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What We Do
Cabify, company that has been a signatory member of the UN Global Compact since 2018, connects private users and companies with the means of transport that best suit their needs. Its main objective is to make cities a better place to live. For this, it seeks to decongest the streets by providing, through technology, a safe and quality transport option. Founded in 2011, in Madrid, Cabify extended, a few months later, to Latin America and is currently present in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Portugal and the Dominican Republic. Cabify adapts to the particularities of the almost 100 cities in which it operates. With an almost entirely Latino team, it stands out for betting on local talent, generating jobs in an industry that is being transformed by technology. Cabify, as part of its commitment to be a socially responsible company and in line with the SDGs, is the first MaaS in Latin America and Europe to offset 100% of the CO2 emissions generated by its operation.
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