Manager, Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• You will fit perfectly if you share these values
• People first.
• Manage a team of 7+ Engineers.
• Being open-minded for discussions and promoting team collaboration.
• Taking initiative, responsibility, and ownership of the projects.
• Driving continuous improvement of the team's productivity, product, and processes.
• Provide career growth and development opportunities for the team and build effective backup/succession plan to handle unanticipated attrition.
• Interact with product management and other engineering teams ( XD, Devops, Tech support, Release teams etc.) to develop / release software products which fulfill the requirements defined by the product owner.
• Provide technical leadership to the team for design, architecture, code reviews and incorporate engineering best practices into feature development, refactoring work and product maintenance.
• Determine the staffing required for scrum teams to complete assigned tasks. Facilitate the required trainings for the team to help them to complete their tasks.
• Experience working with Quality Leads.
• Responsible for hiring of software engineers for agile development teams.
• Mentor, train and motivate software engineers to increase overall technical skillsets and stay current with technology trends.
• Drive the annual performance reviews and appraisal process for the team.
• Participate in the campus / Industry hiring drives.
• Work with team to resolve customer issues as per defined service level agreements.
• Able to successfully deliver committed features on time and meeting project objectives/deadlines.
• Participate in various scrum ceremonies such as Daily scrum calls, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospection
• Qualifications/Skills
• Bachelor/Master degree in computer engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years of software development experience in a technical capacity and minimum 3 years of managerial experience.
• Expertise in any of the development technologies: Java or C#.
• Expertise in designing complex solutions, code reviews, providing architectural input on team-wide/cross-location projects, defining branching strategies and able to drive cross-team initiatives.
• Good familiarity with testing pyramid, test plans, automation, code coverage, continuous integration, performance and security testing.
• Monitoring the team productivity and maximizing utilization across various projects / initiatives.
• Keep up-to-date with technology trends & processes while driving adoption of the same, encourage innovation and lead knowledge sharing strategies. Should be able to pick up and deliver stories/tasks based on the project needs.
• Expertise in agile methodology and handling of scrum teams.
• Assist the team to unblock issues by providing effective resolutions.
• Delegate to engineers with clearly defined responsibility and empowerment.
• Expertise in dealing with performance management which includes regular 1-1's, performance /appraisal discussions with the engineer.
• Ensuring team is adhering to the organizational policies and guidelines.
• Proven ability to drive and enhance team engagement, fostering a collaborative and motivated work environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experienced in managing high performance teams, understanding their feedback and guide them in their career path.
• Ability to attract/recruit/retain talent
• Be a coach, mentor and employee champion.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to abstract functional requirements.