Engineering Manager

About Nintex:

At Nintex, we are transforming the way people work, everywhere.   

As the global standard for process intelligence and automation, we're trusted by over 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries. Our customers, from industry giants like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, rely on the Nintex Platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by managing, automating, and optimizing business processes quickly and efficiently. We improve their lives through the technology we build.  

We are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast-paced, and we value our people’s curiosity, ideas, and enthusiasm. Driven by passion and accountability, we take initiative, measure progress, and deliver results. Our culture fosters innovation and problem-solving, fueled by curiosity and a commitment to thinking big. Together, we move with agility, prioritize customer needs, and build unity through empathy, leaving a positive impact wherever we go.  

Working in engineering:  

Working at Nintex as an engineer means building more than just software; it’s about making a tangible impact with every line of code. Our engineers are process experts, developing the industry’s most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work. If you’re interested, curious and want to learn and do more, the sky is the limit here. We take a solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, constantly innovating our business and products. 

About the role:

The Engineering Manager is responsible for the development and on-time delivery of all technical aspects of a Product (or part thereof), in accordance with the Product plan, which should meet or exceed Nintex’s quality standards.      

Engineering Managers work in partnership with Product Managers and are responsible for maintaining the product backlog, iteration planning, communicating stakeholder requests and managing the ongoing development of team members. 

You will be leading a team that focuses on providing an architecture to support the efficient delivery and integration of AI-enabled features targeting team efficiency in creating and maintaining assets while facilitating cross-platform use cases and consistency. This is a great opportunity to lead a team running AI features into production and make a real impact for Nintex as well as our customers. The role is hybrid in Johannesburg.

Your contribution will be:  

Engineering 

• Ensure your team writes correct code (e.g. NodeJS, semantic HTML, pipeline YAML, etc.), following Nintex standards, guidance, and training materials.
• Know the core concepts in the Service Reliability strategy and manage your team’s services to SLOs and SLIs.
• Work closely with Product Management and User Experience Designers to define required product features and behavior in detail, sufficient to create the required design, resourcing, and development plans.
• Monitor new code and designs to identify where test coverage needs adjustment. Make sure that the test requirements are met and integrated into pipelines appropriately.
• Gather and assess all the relevant input to make quality, durable decisions  
• Champion quality, making sure it is a priority in your team and across projects.
• Follow security best practices, oversee the creation of secure code, and lead teams in threat modeling.  

 Delivery 

• Understand and run your team according to agile principles and use data (velocity, burn down, etc.) to track status and improve team performance.
• Maintain unobstructed vision of the risk factors in your workload including the amount of change introduced, cross-discipline developments, cross-product integrations, or the introduction of new development tools and methodologies.
• Proactively raise any risks or foreseeable changes to previously communicated schedules.
• Identify opportunities and contribute to initiatives that reduce and standardize tooling to streamline our processes, “ways of working” and reduce overhead.
• Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize user stories in line with the product roadmap and to plan product release timelines.  
• Oversee the development of all product features in your domain in a manner that meets delivery commitments.
• You play your assigned role in the Incident Management process, including contributing where your technical and problem-solving skills apply, and also creating space for your staff to engage as the incident’s impact level requires. 

Team Management 

• Coach, support, and enable team members in achieving personal growth and career objectives.
• Lead by example by promoting and embodying Nintex’s values.
• Conduct effective team workforce planning and forecasting.
• Create training plans collaboratively with your team members to produce the skill sets required in the relevant domains.
• Lead hiring cycles and contribute to designing the organizational hiring process. 

To be successful, we think you need: 

• 2+ years managing an engineering team 
• High-level knowledge of Generative AI (basics)
• Experience leading a team that is working on GenAI features would be highly beneficial
• Background in software engineering/data engineering
• Azure and ADO advantageous 

What’s in it for you? 

Our people work in the way that best suits them and their teams - whether at home, in an office, or another place that sparks creativity, focus, and collaboration. Our work environment is such that our people can successfully deliver their work while adequately supporting their lifestyle and preferences. 

While our offerings differ from country to country, we offer our entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including 

• Global Gratitude and Recharge Days
• Hybrid working model
• Flexible, paid time off policy
• Employee wellness programs and counseling resources
• Meaningful peer recognition and awards
• Paid parental leave
• Invention/patenting assistance
• Community impact, paid volunteer time, and opportunities
• Intercultural learning and celebration
• Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community

View more about our benefits here: https://www.nintex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Global-Perks-and-Benefits.pdf.  

Equity Statement: Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.