Engineering Manager - FinE Engineering Platform

Job Description

We are now looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager, preferably with experience of working with internal engineering teams as their main customers. As we at Financial Engineering are quickly growing and expanding our scope and ambitions we are forming an Engineering Platform department with the purpose of enabling our four other departments to experiment and turn successful experiments into long-term sustainable production solutions, with less repetition across and less required total engineering effort. The first squad to join the new department is our Audit Automation team, which builds and maintains a GitHub integrated system that supervises source code changes and the controlled testing of these to fast-track yearly auditing processes vital for any listed company. We envision the mission of this squad to expand into one where it is enabling all squads in the Mission to quickly build and quality assure all new components and systems to a high ITGC Modern standard. The Engineering Manager role is to lead the squad successfully on this journey. You will evolve and further develop an empowered engineering team, and work in close partnership with the squad’s Product Manager and directly with FinE’s engineering and product community to enable FinE Engineering and Audit to move faster with less friction. This is a highly visible and rewarding role with the potential to make a large positive impact, as it has the potential to greatly reduce and improve the work done by hundreds of engineers across the mission.

What you’ll do

• Build, lead and empower a team of cross-discipline engineers. Provide inspiration and technical leadership.
• Own the technical aspects of entire projects, feature sets and modules without needing daily oversight.
• Champion high architectural standards, drive sound technical decisions and promote innovative solutions in an iterative, fail-fast environment.
• Own your team’s overall delivery: timely, with the right functionality and the right quality.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices in your team.
• Actively foster a healthy team. Coach, mentor and provide career development guidance.
• Be an active partner to your product and engineering peers as part of an effective thought leadership team for the product area

Who you are

• Experienced in leading, coaching and mentoring software development teams delivering stable, maintainable and scalable software
• Thrive on solving complex problems in an iterative fashion, delivering frequent tactical wins while making progress towards longer term strategic goals.
• Have solid development experience in more than one tier (data, backend, frontend etc.) - you can perform peer code reviews and architectural reviews, as well as ship code on your own.
• Possess very good communication skills, and an ability to tailor communication style to different audiences, and to exercise good judgment in frequency and nature of communications to different parties (team members, customers and end users, senior management etc.).
• You preferably have enterprise process domain knowledge and have engaged with quality and compliance standards such as SOX and ITGC.
• Solid experience of working in an agile development environment where lines of responsibilities are sometimes blurry.
• MSc degree (or equivalent) in a relatable field

Where you'll be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard Time Zone for collaboration purposes

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