Engineering Manager

Job Description:

The Opportunity   

Our Operations services team is at the heart of how Workhuman helps our customers build and sustain cultures of gratitude. The team manages core functionality for the business and is dedicated to designing and delivering innovative solutions while maintaining and modernizing legacy systems that are crucial for keeping the business running. 
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers and be responsible for delivering business value while creating an engaging and inclusive engineering culture. You will join a group of peers with high levels of trust and respect, collaborating closely to build the best software we can. 
**This is a hybrid role requiring three days a week onsite in our Dublin office**
 
What we can offer you  
• An opportunity to guide strategy and delivery within your product area, collaborating across engineering, architecture and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables  
• An experienced product development team to work with in achieving your goals 
• An opportunity to impact engineering strategy and best practices 
• High levels of autonomy, trust, and support to create the right environment for your success 
• Exciting challenges to help grow your career through new approaches and experiences 
• An opportunity to guide your team in driving impactful outcomes in an environment where organisational, strategic and technical ambiguity and change is common 
• An opportunity to drive the full talent lifecycle for your functional area championing a culture of growth and development through a rich set of facilitation, coaching and mentorship skills 

 
The Skills you will bring  
• Strong expertise and previous experience in a engineering or technical leadership role 
• Experience leading high performing teams, creating the right environment for their success by keeping them focused, motivated, and supported to do their best work  
• Experience managing and developing people to achieve their goals and career growth 
• A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle as well as engineering and agile best practices and approaches 
• Experience using metrics for a data driven approach to product development 
• An ability to communicate and collaborate with colleagues in product, design, engineering and beyond to work with the best interests of our customers and the strategic goals of the company 

   
Achievements  
• You have successfully led a team to deliver features and applications projects with high impact on customers, on time, and to a high level of quality, scalability and performance 
• You have driven initiatives to measurably improve team ways of working, engineering process with your team and others 
• You have successfully mentored and coached engineers to grow in their careers resulting in new opportunities and career progression 
• You have led or coached teams to design scalable event driven solutions, making tradeoffs where required considering the constraints and long-term engineering and product strategy 
• You have successfully advocated for, and then delivered technical debt deliverables as part of the teams’ roadmap, and adoption of emerging toolsets and techniques to enhance the developer experience 
• You have cultivated an environment of accountability, trust and psychological safety where people are able to do their best work

Thank you for considering joining our team. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates. If you encounter any difficulties or have specific accessibility requirements while applying for this position, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected]for assistance. We are committed to ensuring equal access to opportunities for all individuals.

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset

We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.

•  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.

• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.