Engineering Manager, Software Engineering Lead

Summary

Join Jooble, a leading global IT company, and lead a team of 4-5 engineers developing its international job search website. As Engineering Manager, you will set goals, conduct performance reviews, and foster a product engineering approach. You'll need 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, 5+ years of software development experience (preferably with .Net, React, or Python), and strong communication skills. Jooble offers remote work flexibility, flexible hours, paid training, health insurance, mental health support, and generous paid time off. The company prioritizes a supportive and collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 2+ years as Engineering Manager/Software Engineering Lead
• 5+ years of software development experience as a Developer with .Net (preferably) or React or Python
• Engineering mentorship experience
• Great communication skills
• Deep understanding and commitment to modern software engineering principles/processes (Agile, Lean, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement
• The ability to work closely with other colleagues to find the causes of problems and ways to solve them
• You enjoy detect team members’ potential and help them develop professionally
• Ukrainian proficiency level: Upper Intermediate and higher (spoken and written)

Responsibilities

• Manage a team with 4-5 members
• Set goals and develop PDP for engineers (personal development plan)
• Take a part in a performance review
• Hold One-On-One meetings with engineers
• Help the team inspect and adapt their processes
• Participate in recruiting and staffing your teams
• Communicate with stakeholders and Area Engineering Manager to ensure that priorities are correctly aligned
• Actively contribute to the team’s codebase when possible, guiding design and architecture decisions
• Lead the identification and clear specification of technical debt, ensuring it is transparently represented in the technical backlog
• Foster a product engineering approach within the team, encouraging them to question what, why, and how. Collaborate with Product Managers (PM) to align technical decisions with product requirements and business objectives

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible working hours
• We cover the cost of trainings: professional courses, webinars, and language courses
• We provide health insurance for everyone who has worked for more than 3 months. For colleagues who are abroad, financial support is provided in case of medical expenses
• We are cooperating with the well-being service. It provides employees with psychological consultations or a 50% discount on different psychologists’ services
• 24 days of annual leave, paid sick days, + the possibility to take 4 additional sick days without a medical certificate