Requirements:

Management Experience: Preferably 2+ years of managing multidisciplinary teams, with a proven ability to recruit, retain, and grow top engineering talent.
Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and mentor engineering teams. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills. You are a great active listener.
Engineering Excellence: Significant hands-on experience in various contexts, building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems and full-stack products, preferably on the JVM or PHP stacks.
Product Sense: A strong understanding of product development principles and a customer-centric approach.
Bias Towards Action: Balance speed and quality, make quick decisions, and learn from mistakes.
Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for finding creative solutions to complex challenges.
Passion and Energy: Demonstrate ownership and enthusiasm, seeing new tasks as opportunities to contribute and grow.
Always Be Shipping Mindset: It’s about consistently delivering value to customers, where speed and quality go hand in hand.

What You'll Be Doing:

Lead a growing team of application engineers, with a hands-on leadership approach expected from all engineering managers
Bring strong technical expertise and a proven track record in large-scale distributed systems and/or guiding teams through complex technical transitions
Drive strategic technical decisions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, and lead cross-domain technical initiatives that align with overall business and product goals
Identify improvements within the team, propose actionable solutions, and coordinate efforts to improve team velocity and effectiveness
Help shape the broader domain vision, influence strategic direction, and set goals for ongoing product improvement
Balance hands-on engineering with big picture thinking, taking pride in mentoring and developing high performing teams
Maintain a results-driven mindset focused on delivering impact at scale and speed