As an Engineering Manager, you will lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers to achieve technical excellence and deliver high-quality products. You will play a critical role in shaping our engineering culture, driving agile processes, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our products meet customer and business needs.
Job responsibilities
- Provide Technical Guidance: Act as a resource for developers, offering support with architectural decisions, debugging, and solving complex technical challenges.
- Promote Code Quality and Best Practices: Encourage high coding standards through regular code reviews, automated testing, and adherence to best practices across the team.
- Facilitate Knowledge Sharing: Organize team learning sessions, documentation efforts, and peer programming to enhance knowledge-sharing and skill development among developers.
- Optimize Development Workflows: Continuously improve development processes, toolchains, and deployment pipelines to maximize developer efficiency and reduce.
Job qualifications
- Language Skills: Advanced English and Spanish proficiency for effective communication with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Experience in backend development using Python.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles and ability to guide technical decisions.
- Previous experience as a backend developer, preferably with Java.
- Previous experience as a frontend developer, preferably with Angular, React, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Jenkins or GitLab-CI.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience using JIRA for task management and team collaboration.
Professional Skills
- Collaborate Across Teams: Facilitate communication between engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on goals and priorities.
- Manage Conflicting Priorities: Resolve conflicts and ensure that trade-offs between customer needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility are addressed constructively.
- Maintain Transparency: Keep all stakeholders informed on project progress, challenges, and roadmap adjustments to ensure shared understanding.
- Align Engineering with Business Strategy: Ensure that engineering efforts support the company’s strategic goals and product vision, driving effective decision-making and prioritization.
- Build a Cohesive, Empowered Team: Foster a high-performing team where individuals feel valued, empowered, and aligned with team goals.
- Promote Growth and Innovation: Create an environment that encourages continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation.
- Support Development and Set Goals: Identify strengths and areas for improvement, set clear goals, and provide resources for success.
- Remove Obstacles and Drive Results: Actively eliminate performance barriers and build a resilient, adaptable team that exceeds objectives.
Additional Information:
Leadership and People Management
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams effectively.
Project and Delivery Management
- Track record of delivering projects on time, setting priorities, and managing scope.
Business Acumen
- Ability to align technical efforts with business objectives and identify innovation opportunities.
Other things to know
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
About Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.
Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.
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