Engineering Manager (Python)

You will be leading a part of Collectly engineering team and work on core features or Collectly product. You will be working closely with CTO and responsible for implementation of complex features requiring a team effort, coordinate the team and make sure the team performs great.

This role would be a great fit for someone who is comfortable with a high level of responsibility, enjoys working with people and is looking for a great career opportunity to grow together with the company.

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Responsibilities

• Lead a team of professionals, backend, frontend and QA engineers.
• Collaborate with Founders and Product Team to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Represent the team in any meetings (product grooming with CTO and product designer, sprint planning).
• Coordinate the team when working on complex tasks involving multiple people, making sure everyone is on the same page and working towards the common goal.
• Help produce and execute. You should be helping solve problems the team needs help solving. and remove blocks if any.
• Help the team exceed their goals and potential. Provide technical and personal leadership to team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Provide architectural guidelines and lead product and features design/re-design, delivering code alongside the team you lead.
• Guarantee product and code quality (utilizing best practices like code review, automated testing, CI/CD.)
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience (3+ years) with Python, SQL, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery. Javascript (React) knowledge is a big plus.
• Experience in managing team of at least 5 people.
• At least basic algorithms and data structure knowledge.
• Understanding how to develop complex products work. e.g. race conditions, and how to mitigate them by crafting concurrent code.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment. Russian would be a great plus.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems, including SQL.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
• Ability to use GitLab.