Senior Engineering Manager

Title 

Senior Engineering Manager

Reporting to

Senior Director Engineering

Job location

Jaipur/Gurugram

We seek an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join our Enterprise POS team leading our Admin Portal website and backend services teams.  Brink POS is our industry-leading cloud-based solution for front and back-of-house restaurant operations. You will partner with our product team to help define the vision, and the technical engineering roadmap and strategy to deliver that vision.  You favor data-driven decision-making and have a customer-oriented focus.    You will lead your teams, owning a set of obvious engineering goals and deliverables. To be successful, you will bring strong people management, technical leadership, and a track record of developing and implementing new ideas and leading technical development teams.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Manage a team of Software Development and QA Engineers
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to analyze, design, and develop system features and functionality within an Agile framework.
• Work with the Engineering leads and Architects, propose architecture and design optimizations, and drive them through implementation and ownership of the technical debt roadmap.
• Work with the development and testing teams to ensure consistent, high-quality deliveries
• Manage projects as needed to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope, while dynamically adjusting for any changes
• Continually strive for increased efficiency and quality
• Maintain highly cohesive and collaborative relationships with team members and other coworkers
• Recruit, train, mentor, and coach developers and QA team members
• Regularly engage with direct reports to assess and promote job satisfaction and career growth
• Perform performance reviews and complete other managerial employee-related paperwork and processes as needed
• Maintain a high degree of confidentiality concerning PAR’s and customer’s information

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Minimum of nine (9) years of software development experience
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience managing Software Development teams
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity and comfort with agile software development principles and practices
• Strong technical experience in Java & Python must be good fit if the candidate has experience in Ruby on Rails or Golang
• Experience with large-scale, distributed, micro-service or event-based architecture
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience with asynchronous architectures and patterns
• Experience with serverless AWS architecture
• Strong analysis skills and the ability to synthesize multiple perspectives
• A pragmatic approach to solving problems with off-the-shelf tools
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proactive communication style; ability to question, clarify and document
• Ability to manage/prioritize multiple tasks and projects to meet deadlines
• Self-starter who requires minimal supervision
• Experience working with contractors and remote teams