Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Factor-Eleven as a world-class Engineering Manager to lead small to mid-sized teams building SaaS digital advertisement products. Guide and mentor frontend and backend engineers, perform code reviews, plan projects, estimate workloads, and collaborate with other departments. You will be 50% hands-on, ensuring high-quality development and a positive engineering culture. Ideal candidates possess Typescript and NodeJS knowledge, with experience in AWS, Kafka, and GraphQL a plus. Success requires strong mentoring, team spirit, and leadership skills, consistently raising the bar for team quality, reliability, scalability, and culture. The role involves leading cross-functional teams, providing career guidance, and participating in hiring.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of engineering leadership experience guiding productive, high functioning teams. You can describe why these teams were high functioning and what you specifically did to ensure engineers felt productive
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability, security and reliability
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you and you don't shy away from difficult and constructive conversations with your team
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval - and have applied these at significant scale
• Proven involvement in cross-team, cross-discipline strategic planning and architectural design
• Experience in organizing, planning and giving workshops, fostering a growth and quality focused culture
• Excellent proficiency of NodeJS with TypeScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
• High familiarity with fundamental design principles behind scalable applications
• Common knowledge of event-driven architecture, message busses, and/or pub/sub-systems
• Proven expert knowledge on implementing automated and unit testing best practices
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Excellent project management, organizational and time management skills
• Extensive experience in mentoring teammates in a respectful, educative manner

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams in the conceptualization and implementation of complex features and services
• Stay 50% hands-on! We believe the only way to be a great Engineering Manager is to continue to be a great engineer
• Mentor and provide career guidance to the engineers on your teams
• Collaborate with peers, within and outside the team, to help develop a long-term vision for our engineering practices and tooling
• Consistently lead teams to deliver compelling products, features and services. Providing transparent updates, timeline estimates, and demos along the way
• Participate in defining and fulfilling the engineering hiring plan for the team, including screening and interviewing
• Help ensure that our coding standards and patterns are observed by participating in design discussions, testing and code reviews
• You'll assist our support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues
• 1:1s and performance discussions with team members
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, secure, and efficient code
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies
• Keeping informed of advancements of technologies including Node.js and AWS
• Write and review tasks and estimate workloads for yourself and others

Preferred Qualifications

Any experience with AWS, Kafka, and GraphQL is a plus

Benefits

• Transparent, above-market salaries
• 100% remote within Europe
• Flexible work-hours and part-time models
• Be part of a fast-growing, highly-skilled team
• In person department and company events
• Home office, co-working space and work-together allowance
• Personal and professional development courses from Udemy
• Case by case relocation and visa support