YouTrip is looking for an Engineering Manager to drive the development of our highly scalable applications and manage one or two scrum teams. You'll play a key role in expanding our growing suite of services as we scale beyond digital fintech services. We are dedicated to creating the next generation of digital finance services within an entrepreneurial culture that values diversity and inclusion.
What You'll Do
- Mentor and manage a team of software engineers, setting clear goals, facilitating career development, and conducting regular performance evaluations.
- Oversee software project execution, ensuring on-time delivery while meeting quality standards.
- Stay hands-on by contributing to codebases, performing code reviews, and maintaining technical depth to provide meaningful guidance.
- Define and drive technical direction, incorporating emerging technologies and industry best practices to improve innovation and scalability.
- Uphold engineering excellence by enforcing coding standards, fostering test automation, and continuously improving development processes.
- Foster a collaborative environment and ensure clear communication within the team and with cross-functional teams.
- Regularly engage with stakeholders, sharing progress updates, technical insights, and delivery outcomes.
- Coach engineers both technically and professionally, helping them grow into stronger, more autonomous contributors.
- Build a high-performing, agile, and self-organizing team that delivers stable, scalable, and reliable features and services.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in team management, with a strong track record of coaching and mentoring diverse engineering teams.
- Expert-level proficiency in designing and developing high-performance, concurrent applications.
- Excellent communication skills, with the capability to oversee squad-level priorities, deadlines, and project outcomes.
- Strong understanding of product and business metrics, adept at setting objectives using the OKR framework.
- Demonstrates a balanced approach towards project features and engineering excellence, with a solid product-oriented mindset.
- Background in working with distributed systems, parallel processing, and handling highly complex software applications.
- A good appetite for taking calculated risks, demonstrating the ability to weigh options and make strategic decisions under uncertainty.
- Understanding of the development lifecycle and experience collaborating with cross-functional and remote teams.
- Curiosity, creative outside-the-box problem solving abilities and an eye for details.
Nice to Have
- Experience using Golang would be a plus.
Team & Environment
You will manage one or two scrum teams.
