Engineering Manager

**Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and be responsible for leading a team of engineers, including alignment of the technical direction of projects, as well as system maintenance.
• Lead technology projects including implementations with 3rd party solutions, and internal cross platform dependent solutions.
• Participate in business planning discussions and define the technology delivery approach, including cross-applications / teams integration, and/or release coordination.
• Provide technical leadership to the team through coaching, pairing and mentorship.
• Adhere to high-quality development principles by establishing best practices while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
• Implementing the best practices and coding standards of the project.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards and participate in code reviews of solution designs.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products.
• Taking responsibility for maintenance/support, implementation of new and existing project requirements, and release of changes into the server dev, staging and production environments.
• Develop detailed design documents including release and deployment plans; package and support deployment of releases.
• Work with the Quality Assurance team to review the test cases and ensure that the project is delivered with a high degree of quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers to support, troubleshoot and resolve system issues to business users.
• Work closely with our CTO, VP and product team to ensure on-going focus on build structure, process, reusability and scalability, to maximize returns on the suite of products.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in Technology Product Development preferred in Fintech Industry, Data Management and Delivery including system design and project technical coordination.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Developer.
• Experience with APIs application development, high Availability system design and distributed systems.
• Experience with database development including relational database design and SQL, including non-relational database design.
• Knowledge in API design and implementation and system integration using APIs including REST API interface design.
• Knowledge of the business and technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications) from a strategic perspective and managing/directing teams and projects.
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum.
• Experience with source control management systems including GIT and continuous integration/deployment environments.
• Experience with application security.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities; excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

**Preferred Skills:

• Experience with monitoring tools like Newrelic, Datadogs, Zabbix, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience with load balancing tools like LVS, Nginx, Openresty or HAProxy.
• Experience with container technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos.