Unit TestingGitVersion ControlAgileScrumCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of front-end, back-end and QA engineers, taking accountability for delivery across your team.
Actively foster a high bar for engineering excellence with a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.
Encourage and enable a customer-centric mindset within the team, working closely with our product and partner teams to develop solutions that exceed our customer expectations.
Support professional growth through regular feedback, coaching, and performance reviews.
Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices.
Lead communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focused space for engineers to do their best work.
Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to and improve company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards.
Champion and implement modern development practices and workflows to maximize team efficiency and transparency, using metrics to identify process improvements and make data driven decisions.
Align engineering efforts with business goals, product vision, and technical strategy.
Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
Requirements
3-5+ years as an Engineering Manager in a software development environment with direct experience leading cross functional teams.
Strong understanding of application development and release management.
Experience working on APIs and enterprise integrations is a plus.
Track record of shipping user focused applications and products.
Hands-on experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, unit testing, and version control (Git).
Proven experience leading teams using Agile and/or Scrum methodologies.
Ability to quickly build trust, motivate, mentor, and develop high-performing teams.
Strong communication, organizational, and decision-making skills.
Ability to work with a diverse set of teams and individuals with various working styles to drive clarity, make decisions and simply get things done.
Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, QA and marketing teams.
Benefits
Nitro provides all employees with a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, dental and vision coverage, and wellness perks.
We also offer pension/401k matching, along with many other country-specific benefits.