Software Engineering Manager

• Technical Leadership:
• Provide direction and be responsible for the output of frontend discipline within the application development.
• Implement software engineering strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives.
• Own the frontend application development capability for our web portal solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the solution product owner.
• Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures.
• Team Leadership:
• Lead, mentor, and manage the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Responsible for career development and performance management of the team members.
• Project Delivery:
• Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
• Develop solutions using TDD methodology.
• Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles, and development processes to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads.
• Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes, tools, and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity.

Requirements

• Experience: Proven experience (8+ years) in a senior/lead role within software development for web portals, APIs and mobile apps, with a strong technical background.
• Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management strategies, design patterns, DevOps, automation, and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability, flexibility, stability, ease of maintenance and security.
• Technologies covered: Strong experience in implementing software using React-Native framework, TypeScript, relational and non-relational databases, testing strategies.
• Strong experience in building highly scalable APIs and/or microservices .NET Core or NodeJS.
• Experience with integrating with headless content management systems such as Contentful.
• Experience in building well-architected solutions.
• Experience in integrating with OAuth security providers such as Okta or Auth0.
• Experience with building and deploying application code and configured CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo CI.
• Experience with working in agile teams and understood the concepts of iterative delivery, fail-early fail-fast, continued improvements.
• Leadership Skills: Good leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members.
• Education: Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Optional: Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as regulatory interfaces, multi-currency, multi-language etc is an advantage.
• Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions - specifically microservice architecture - at the code level, in collaboration with other team members.

Desirable

• Experience with cloud technologies and implementations on building Full-stack mobile applications
• Experience of using Jira