Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Overview
As a member of the Engineering leadership team at Conservice, you will be responsible for
leading, mentoring, growing and building a highly-effective Software Engineering team within an
Agile environment.
- Lead discussions with your team about what emerging tools, technologies and
processes are coming that may impact how our organization grows and evolves. - Your primary goal will be to drive your team to turn concepts into reality and ensure
consistent delivery of high-quality, scalable, innovative software to Conservice's utility
management platform. - As an Engineering Manager, you are a dynamic leader who drives an engineering team
to new heights each and every day. - You will work closely with Product Management and other technical leaders to stay
ahead of the curve with our products and architecture. - You will be responsible for Engineering craftsmanship and best practices on your team,
drive improvements as necessary, and most importantly, mentor engineers on your team
to be just as awesome as you are. - Manage an Agile process that consistently delivers a quality product to Conservice's
team members and customers. - Rally your team to make and keep commitments to customers, the business, and
themselves. - Team up with your Product Owner and Scrum Master in planning and preparing your
team's backlog. - Ensuring the quality craftsmanship of your team's software engineers is an ingrained
behavior and that we're always ensuring our code not only works as advertised, but it will
continue to work when thousands of people are utilizing it at the same time. - Meet with your team to ensure their path for success is clear and we're instilling and
exhibiting the right behaviors to ensure consistent, high- quality delivery. - Mentor, coach, and assist team members to be productive and efficient contributors to
Conservice's utility management platform. - Participate in interviews to find the next great engineer or leader at Conservice,
convincing them that Conservice has the best software jobs on the planet. - Have an awesome lunch with your team because we're nailing it.
- At the end of a release, as the rest of the company is validating that, in fact, you and
your teams are nailing it, take some time to do some research, train in a new technology,
or even play a game – em, we mean participate in a team building exercise – with your
team. - Knowledge of technologies, languages, and/or architectures in the Conservice environment (Microservices, .NetCore, C#, React, SingleSpa, PostgreSQL, Apache, Kafka, Azure, Docker, ML, AI, data pipelines, etc)
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of software engineering practices, craftsmanship, metrics, quality and testing procedures, process creation and enablement.
- Established track record of being the go-to person for your teams, spearheading or injecting yourself in necessary discussions to ensure you're always in the loop and your teams always have what they need to be successful.
- Experience optimizing software processes to ensure your team is always running efficiently and constantly striving to improve.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate details about the technical practices in software engineering in a way that makes sense and resonates with our customers and other departments in the business.
- Ability to adjust and adapt to changing situations in stride communicating effectively to achieve buy-in and minimizing downstream effect on performance and morale.
- Show that you have the ability and desire to mentor others to improve their capabilities in all areas above.
- Have unique experience in microservice architectures, real-time or massively distributed systems, big data, analytics or AI, or public cloud/PaaS systems like Azure.
- Demonstrate extraordinary communication skills to the point where we feel that, not only can you talk to engineers, but to the CEO, our customers and everyone in between.
- Convince us that you have successfully led measurable and, preferably, dramatic improvements in the engineering practices and execution of software teams and that you have the passion and drive to do it again.
- Show that you are a person who not only solves problems but anticipates them, and moves quickly to provide solutions without needing to be asked. Share stories about your leadership and how you got your teams to not only believe they could achieve more than they thought possible, but they actually did it.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering (or equivalent)
experience. - 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years of recent experience leading software
engineering teams - Knowledge of technologies, languages, and/or architectures in the Conservice
environment - Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of software engineering practices, craftsmanship,
metrics, quality and testing procedures, process creation and enablement. - Established track record of being the go-to person for your teams, spearheading or
injecting yourself in necessary discussions to ensure you're always in the loop and your
teams always have what they need to be successful. - Experience optimizing software processes to ensure your team is always running efficiently and constantly striving to improve.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate details about the technicalpractices in software engineering in a way that makes sense and resonates with our customers and other departments in the business.
- Ability to adjust and adapt to changing situations in stride, communicating effectively to achieve buy-in and minimizing downstream effect on performance and morale.
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