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In this role, you will lead system reliability efforts through proactive troubleshooting and act as a liaison between engineering and stakeholders, while mentoring developers and supporting their growth. You'll execute the roadmap, integrate security and compliance into workflows and optimize workflows. You will own the entire delivery lifecycle from beta releases to production ready, scalable products suitable for new and existing customers. This is a hybrid role and is open to applicants located within commuting distance of Bucharest, Romania. In this role, you will report to the Manager, Software Development.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\nParticipate and support the management team in the hiring process. Assign day to day tasks and monitor performance of the team. Actively participate in professional development of the team. \nFoster and challenge established patterns and best practices to improve the people, processes and technology of the team. \nGuide the team through complex projects, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code with strong testing practices. Champion best practices and mentor developers to elevate code quality.\nLead troubleshooting and observability efforts, proactively addressing system reliability, improving alerting, and ensuring incident analysis leads to lasting improvements.\nParticipate in critical discussions on system architecture, provide inputs on strategic investments and support technical decisions to ensure alignment with business goals and scalability needs.\nEmbed security and compliance best practices into development workflows, identifying risks early and driving timely remediation.\nKeep sprints on track by optimizing workflows, managing dependencies, and proactively removing blockers to maintain momentum and efficiency.\nBridge engineering and stakeholders, clearly communicating progress, risks, and technical decisions while ensuring alignment across Product, Design, and PMO.\nMentor and support developers through 1:1s, performance feedback, and career growth initiatives, fostering a high-performing, growth-oriented team.\nDrive roadmap execution by ensuring backlog items are well-defined, strategically aligned, and supported by realistic capacity planning.\nMake informed decisions balancing technical feasibility, business priorities, and team capacity, adjusting timelines and escalating challenges as needed.\nTech Stack: GoLang, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Mongo, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, AWS\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED:\nA degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and significant years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining software or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact. \nAbility to foster continuous improvement and ensure patterns and best practices in writing and testing code are observed in daily work of the team. Deliver code and tests via stories and epics that impact the team or multiple teams. \nFoster continuous improvement and ensure that logging, monitoring and debugging best practices are integrated throughout the development process and across the team's services and apps. Independently use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs, outages and performance issues.\nFoster and ensure that architecture concepts and best practices are considered in daily work of the team. Collaborate with Manager and Developers to drive improvements in service and app architecture and design. \nFoster and ensure security and compliance practices in daily work and throughout the development process of the team.\nDrive team agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own high-complexity epics/projects. Support team in efficient and predictable delivery of high quality projects.\nCollaborate and communicate effectively within and across teams and with key stakeholders in Product and Design. Lead discussions that connect technical and non-technical aspects of a problem. Advocate for the team's perspectives while interacting with relevant stakeholders and other leads within the portfolio.\nCollaborate with the Manager in creating inclusive, cohesive environments for team(s) that support performance and development. Support performance and career development of reports through collaboration with the Manager, effective, continuous feedback, mentoring and coaching.\nLearn and follow people, process and technical management best practices and standards. Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting. Independent in creating goals aligned with personal development and supported in aligning a majority of goals with team needs.\nSupport roadmap creation with a focus on business and technical value. Lead development project scoping and analysis. Foster continuous planning. Facilitate team in effective roadmap execution.\nUnderstand human, technical and business context to make informed decisions impacting team execution. Seek feedback from the Manager and analyse outcomes to improve decision-making process..\nAlign stakeholders from product, design, and project management on team goals and project status. Support manager in aligning team objectives with broader business strategies.\nSupport short-term strategy for the team and ensure the work aligns with business and technical goals. Support building and executing short-term tactical plans.\nBuilds inclusive, cohesive teams which apply diversity to achieve common goals\nCapably delivers results through others, is good at establishing clear direction, helping others achieve their best work\nIdentifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; Builds an integrated plan for course of action to accomplish this vision\nChallenges and supports others to create results but also develop new capabilities. Successfully develops the capacity and capability of team and individuals on the team\nWHO YOU ARE:\nSolution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward-and you don’t wait to be asked.\nLifelong learner: You have a growth mindset - you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.\nResilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.\nIntentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.\nCritical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.\nActive communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.\nIntegrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.\nAccountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.\nBar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.\nIn all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:\nStep Up: Dare to go beyond the expected to achieve greatness. #StepUp\nOne Team: Make Hootsuite a place we soar together by respecting each other's individuality, building trust, and showing up for the team. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe\nCustomer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed\nGo Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile\nPlay to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses\nNeighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies\n Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.\n#LI-IA #LI-Hybrid\nUse of AI in Hiring\nHootsuite uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support our recruitment process. 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