Engineering Manager

Summary

Join BETER, a rapidly growing product company specializing in competitive content and analytics for sports tournaments and broadcasts, as an Engineering Manager (.NET/C#). You will develop and implement a technical strategy for a sports analytics system. This leadership role involves team building, fostering a technical culture, addressing critical development areas, mentoring others, and driving continuous improvement. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills and leadership experience within the .NET ecosystem. BETER offers a remote work option, flexible schedule, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Be a business person, have a sense of responsibility for the entrusted area and treat it as your brainchild, be demanding of the team, but fair, set goals, monitor their implementation, control the workload of people, and systematically improve the level of skills in the team
• 3+ years of experience in managing a team: organizing work, motivating, maintaining discipline, delegating and monitoring execution, exchanging feedback, and leadership
• Write high-quality code in C# (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core), understand OOP and SOLID concepts, understand design patterns
• 6+ years of expertise in the .NET ecosystem: tools, libraries, frameworks
• RDBMS/NoSQL experience: knowledge of the principles of engine operation, ability to profile queries, design schemas, understanding the logic of index operation
• Experience working with message brokers: knowledge of the operating principles of broker types, building asynchronous data delivery and processing with various guarantees and for various scaling requirements, fault tolerance, etc
• Loyalty to DevOps practices and experience in their application: automation of development and quality assurance tools, monitoring, tracing, and debugging
• Skills in profiling, debugging, optimizing code and queries to the database
• Willingness to participate on-calls according to a pre-planned schedule
• Experience writing unit tests, understanding when it is appropriate and when it is not
• Adhere to the opinion that without code review it is impossible to work and convey this message to the masses :)
• Striving to improve existing solutions and develop new solutions, searching for growth points
• A desire to share knowledge with engineers and be able to convey it

Responsibilities

• Organizing the work of the team, implementing and monitoring compliance with the necessary processes
• Planning and distribution of work in a team, monitoring implementation
• Design of services on the balance of the team in collaboration with the architect and business analysts
• Implementing and maintaining good software development practices, such as coding conventions and code review
• Writing code in C# as part of the implementation of tools and products
• Writing unit tests for functionality
• Mentoring engineers in a team, assistance in drawing up PDP
• Assistance in troubleshooting, and training on how to prevent them in the future
• Help in finding bottlenecks and performance problems, profiling database queries, and code
• Conducting knowledge tests, developing tests for self-control and for hiring needs
• Participation in interviews of team candidates, assessing the level of knowledge and expertise
• Providing regular feedback to team members
• Conducting team meetings on a regular basis
• Approval of vacations, sick leave, time off, overtime in the team, and - correction of current plans

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing in languages other than C#
• Experience in digging into the insides of frameworks for self-improvement
• A constant search for answers to the questions “why” and “how to do it better”, but at the same time critical thinking to understand when it is rational to do it “better”
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms, understanding how O(1) differs from O(n)
• Understanding the difference between AMQP and Kafka, the pros and cons of such solutions
• Higher technical education, training in mathematical/technical lyceums
• Experience with Kafka, MongoDB, MS Orleans, Prometheus, ElasticSearch and OTel
• Frontend development experience
• Experience in cloud environments in general and AWS in particular
• Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics

Benefits

• Ability to work remotely
• Flexible work schedule
• 100% paid sick leave
• 20 working days of paid vacation
• Competitive and timely payment for services
• Personal mentoring and coaching
• Team building and corporate events
• Paid child care leave