Engineering Manager

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a fervent desire to learn and innovate. You challenge the status quo, and you are determined to help Nexthink stay on the leading edge of digital employee experience. As an Engineering Manager, you play a key role in leading more than one engineering team that is at the heart of Nexthink's solution. To be successful in this role, you need a strong mix of management and technical skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, going from high-level strategy, roadmap, and architecture to implementation details. We are looking for an outcome- (as opposed to output-) oriented professional.

Responsibilities:

• Build a high-performing engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance improvement, and career progression of the engineers.
• Attract and retain the best talent.
• Drive and lead the engineering processes, architecture, and technical roadmap within the team in alignment with the Engineering leadership team.
• Manage the technical debt, security, quality, and technical decisions in an efficient and structured manner.
• Evangelize, drive, and continuously improve our agile methodologies for software development to continue building our product iteratively and in a lean way.
• Instill Nexthink values as a building foundation for your team
• Work with Product Management and the UX team to help write effective user stories, to build an effective product roadmap with your technical inputs and ensure smooth and close collaboration with the engineers from discovery to delivery.
• Ensure coordination and full alignment between different agile teams across multiple locations, as well as cross-department collaboration, such as Marketing, sales, HR, or customer success.
• Ability to contribute technically within the team as required by bringing your experience in architectural decisions, code reviews, prototypes, and codebase.
• Own problems from end-to-end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to understand and minimize any impact on the business.
• Foster a culture of integrity, mutual respect, and collaborative decision-making.

Requirements:

• B. S. or Master's in Computer Science.
• Strong knowledge around the technology stack (like Java, Kafka, Postgres, Clickhouse, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, AWS, and CI/CD) and processes for full-stack development, microservices, and cloud architecture and deployment.
• Previous experience with AI technologies (ML, NLP, LLM) is a plus.
• Previous experience and excellent track record in a similar leadership role, building from scratch and leading engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Experience dealing with internationally distributed teams will be highly valued.
• Ability to work in a multicultural and hyper-growth-paced environment, managing effectively cultural gaps and embracing change.
• Prior experience as a software engineer or architect with an excellent understanding of coding and software architectures and the ability to discuss technical details and provide insightful inputs.
• Experience collaborating with the product managers and engineers to align product and engineering roadmaps to generate the highest business value
• Experience in leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers towards delivering timely and high-quality software while growing them to the next level.
• Strong get things done' mindset, willing to do what it takes to get concrete outcomes.
• Profound know-how in agile practices and frameworks.
• Teamwork and collaboration are part of your DNA.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proficient English (spoken and written).
• Enthusiasm to learn new technologies and work in a close-knit team to find new and better ways to serve the needs of the business.

Skills

AWS, Agile, Java, Kafka, React, TypeScript, cloud, full-stack, microservices