Backend Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Centric Market Intelligence™ as the Engineering Manager of the Backend Team, guiding engineers in maintaining data pipelines. You will collaborate with the technical lead to address team challenges, build roadmaps, and prioritize tasks. Responsibilities include managing team capacity, communicating with stakeholders, and occasionally contributing to coding tasks. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication, people management, and software engineering skills, along with experience in Python, Django, and AWS. Centric Software offers a 100% remote work environment, training and conference budget, health insurance, life insurance, and a private pension plan.

Requirements

• You can communicate in English proficiently with both technical and non-technical peers
• You are a “People first” person. You care deeply about the people in your team and look out for them in all situations
• You value a work environment where empathy and kindness are the baseline of relationships
• You facilitate and empower the career growth of those you manage
• Good motivational skills. You know how to make your team deliver while understanding the complexity of their tasks and the degree of uncertainty they can have
• Solid software engineering foundations. You have a degree in software engineering or equivalent knowledge and experience
• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, preferably with Python, Django, and, ideally, AWS, before becoming an Engineering manager
• 3+ years of experience working as a team manager (Tech/Team Lead or Engineering Manager). Providing feedback, hiring, and having 1:1 meetings is something that comes naturally to you
• You can manage very skilled and senior software engineers
• Good people skills. You can get along nicely with all kinds of personalities. You listen to others and are capable of changing your mind if arguments contrary to your ideas are provided. You prioritize finding a solution over winning arguments. You convince or get convinced

Responsibilities

• Team management (Follow up on tasks, 1:1s, talent retention). Keep the backend engineers happy, and make their careers grow at Centric Software
• Work closely in tandem with the technical lead of the backend team to: Identify, solve, and prevent blockings and dependencies within the team and with other teams
• Build roadmaps, set priorities, balance team capacity, and mix short-term productivity with long-term maintainability
• Work with Product, other team’s Tech Leads, and the CTO to understand the company’s needs and help with estimations and capacity planning
• Be the “face” of the backend team. Communicate with stakeholders, help or push back when needed
• You take the occasional coding task to keep your skills in shape

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Training and conference budget
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Private pension plan