Engineering Manager
Skills
About the Role
You will lead Platform Squads responsible for Core Platform, Core Data (including blockchain integrations), Developer Experience and DevOps. You will manage and mentor engineers, own and refine agile processes, drive the technical vision and roadmap, and occasionally contribute hands-on to solve critical technical challenges. You will work across squads to coordinate roadmaps, improve developer productivity, ensure scalable data pipelines and maintain operational and security standards while monitoring key performance metrics.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- At least 5 years of experience as a backend engineer
- 3+ years in a senior leadership role managing multiple teams or squads
- Proven experience managing ~15–20 engineers within a larger organization
- Strong background in system architecture, data engineering, and infrastructure management
- Proven ability to manage tasks using JIRA and align work with roadmaps
- Deep understanding and application of agile methodologies including Scrum
- Experience monitoring and improving team performance using KPIs such as velocity and cycle time
- Familiarity with scalable architecture patterns, microservices, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with data pipeline technologies, APIs and DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform
- Solid understanding of CI/CD and cloud-native tools
- Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring and decision-making skills
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor engineers and engineering leads across multiple squads
- Build and maintain an inclusive team culture that promotes quality and accountability
- Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and ensure team alignment with objectives
- Own and refine team processes and enforce agile methodologies and ceremonies
- Oversee task management and prioritization in JIRA
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and manage roadmaps and timelines
- Drive technical vision and roadmap for Core Platform, Data Pipelines, DevEx, and DevOps
- Ensure delivery of scalable, high-performance data pipelines including blockchain integrations
- Advocate and implement software development and DevOps best practices
- Monitor and improve performance metrics such as lead time, uptime, pipeline latency and velocity
- Ensure platform components meet security, compliance, and scalability requirements