• Lead & manage technical projects from conception to completion
  
• Prepare technical specification documents with respect to the SoW
• Estimate effort and project timelines
• Prepare Gantt plan and allocate bandwidth
• Deliver at high-quality standards that meet the KPIs
• Collaborate with support & product team during the post-release hypercare period to meet the project’s KPIs
• Effectively manage projects using Scrum, or Agile or another equal framework of choice
• Manage priorities
• Keep track of risks, blockers and due-dates
• Analyze engineering challenges and develop solutions
• Identify and resolve process bottlenecks
• Automate redundant processes and tasks
• Research and recommend new technologies suiting to organization’s current tech and trajectory
• Support & Manage technical teams
• Ensure and advocate for staff wellbeing & work quality
• Prevent team member burnouts, timely address their concerns
• Conduct regular individual performance-assessments & survey
• Influence and coach engineers
• Set personlized learning paths and objectives for the team
• Organize frequent training sessions within the team
• Promote participation in tech-events for the team
• Provides strategic guidance and mentorship to other engineering managers
• Keep track of capacity, bandwidth and roadmap of engineering team members
• Collaborate to keep & stay aware of all ongoing projects and developments
• Monitor and assess the performance of the engineering team
• Follow DORA or another equal framework of choice
• Track and present performance, identify & lead improvements
• Travel for on-site offshore collaboration with clients
• Present project deliverables and the project roadmap
• Keep internal and external stakeholders informed with project progress
• Represent the company in events and meetings

What makes you a great fit:

• Minimum of 3 years of people management experience in a start-up
• Minimum of 5 years of recent experience launching & maintaining software products
• Minimum of 5 years of recent software development experience (in last 8 years)
• Realistic about budgeting, trade-offs, headcount, cash burn, etc
• Excellent communication skills - oral and written - mean that you are able to speak with clarity to customers, succinctly with investors and with precision to engineers
• Valid Passport and other requisites to travel offshore