Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Airalo, a global eSIM company, as an Engineering Manager! This remote-first position offers a chance to lead and mentor a team of engineers, driving technical excellence and fostering a collaborative environment. You will be responsible for overseeing project execution, ensuring high-quality product delivery, and contributing to the company's technical direction. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of 5 years of technical experience and 2 years of team leadership experience, along with expertise in distributed systems and AWS services. Airalo provides competitive benefits, including health insurance, a work-from-anywhere stipend, and annual wellness and learning credits.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions, drive technical decisions and perform code reviews
• Minimum 2 years of experience in leading the team and guiding them through their career development
• Experience in guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Expertise in building and refactoring of distributed systems
• Expertise in event-driven architecture and Messaging systems: Queue, Pub/Sub, etc
• Good knowledge of SQL/NoSQL
• Good knowledge in AWS services (EC2, Lambda, SQS, Security, Aurora, DynamoDB)
• Experience with Docker
• Knowledge and experience about Unit Test/Feature Test/Mocking
• Good communication skills and fluency in English
• Reside in countries with the same time zone as CET or similar and have a permit to work in the country where they are based

Responsibilities

• Lead technology excellence in the company in the related domain
• Extend and improve engineering best practices in the teams
• Maintain and improve a collaborative environment, commit to driving projects to completion creatively
• Motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
• Ensures that the team delivers high-quality products and solutions by following the best practices, e.g. testing, observability, etc
• Build a team that is collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short-term and long-term goals
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products
• Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Work-from-anywhere stipend
• Annual wellness & learning credits
• Annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination