engineering
Posted 4 hours agoSenior Lead - Engineering Manager (Maternity Cover - 6 months)
at Ooon
Berlin, GermanyOn-site
Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with the Engineering Team, Product Management, and key stakeholders.
- Continue the culture of technical excellence. Advocate for necessary refactors, observability, and performance improvements.
- Drive the team's roadmap execution, ensuring the work directly fulfills the requirements, by closely collaborating with the PM around the projects, progress, blockers, and risks.
- Coach, mentor, and manage a diverse team, providing continuous feedback for high performance and growth.
- Create an environment for the engineers to make technical decisions by themselves by providing them the context and access to decision making tools.
Requirements
- experience levels in Berlin and London.
- experience leading, coaching, and managing split or distributed engineering teams.
- Strong background in backend development and modern data architecture (event-driven systems, microservices, GraphQL) to effectively guide technical strategy.
- experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Kafka, and GraphQL in a high-volume production environment.
- Experience or strong interest in incorporating AI systems into the software development lifecycle. Why Join Us?
Benefits
- Dive into the future strategic vision, asking critical questions and challenging the direction where appropriate. Strategic Leadership (After 6 Months):
- Align our software to the vision and strategy, shape product direction, suggesting viable alternatives when ideas are technically costly or difficult.
- Bonus Points If You Have: Hands-on
Additional details
- Are you an experienced technical leader passionate about product data, distributed systems, and building high-performing, geographically split engineering teams?
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