Head Of Engineering

Summary

Join SpotMe/Onomi as Head of Engineering and lead a team of 15+ engineers across Europe. You will be responsible for delivery and release management, technical leadership, and team growth. This hands-on role requires expertise in large-scale SaaS systems and a proven ability to improve engineering excellence. You will work closely with the Product team, manage sprint planning, resolve critical issues, and scale the engineering organization by onboarding nearshore engineers. The position reports to the VP of Engineering and involves significant contributions to the company's growth in the life sciences sector.

Requirements

• Strong background in large-scale SaaS systems
• Expertise and drive to push high-performing feature teams even further

Responsibilities

• Organize and document sprint line-ups for the teams you handle so that they are ready to be tackled on the Monday of each two week sprint kick-off
• Secure high quality feature releases on time and as committed by the teams by performing day to day standups in order to detect and resolve potential roadblocks
• When impediments appear, step in personally by providing architectural guidance and when necessary set up task forces and lead by example through code reviews, PR’s and actively contributing to the code base
• Ensure engineering teams keep the backlog of issue tickets under its maximum defined level by dispatching issue tickets on the dedicated daily standup
• Personally step in to take over PR reviews that are stuck or piling up - prevent bottlenecks. When necessary, take ownership of fixes and pair programs with engineers to tackle complex problems and accelerate delivery (task force)
• Analyze and resolve critical issues, escalating to the VP of Engineering only when necessary
• Manage engineering talent, interview nearshore candidates to support team expansion, and foster a culture of excellence and accountability
• Perform regular reviews, ensure actions are planned and written down when performance standards are not met, organize improvements reviews with engineers and VP of Engineering
• Assess what is working and not working within the engineering development teams, build a 6 months plan and present it to the CEO and VP Engineering
• Assist to the first sprint planning and then take over the next ones - present the work to be performed to the entire team (product & engineering) for each sprint kick-off
• Achieve a clear understanding of our platform’s architecture and code base - with your working development environment at hand you will have created PR’s for two bug fixes
• After having planned 6 consecutive sprint plannings, an increase in the deliverability improvement of ~15% should be observed
• Continue evaluating and onboarding nearshore engineers - hiring of 1-2 additional engineer(s) is secured
• Handle the analysis and resolution of at least 4 critical issues and report back to the VP of Engineering
• Achieve 90%+ adherence to sprint commitments by improving planning, execution, and accountability within squads
• Handle all critical issue analysis and resolutions, escalate to VP Engineering when required, manage engineering on-call rotations
• 4 large features/projects will have been handled from design phase to delivery, including documentation, test plan and product official announcement
• # of nearshore engineers reaches 5 FTE’s
• Application engineering teams are fully staffed with the addition of 2-3 extra nearshore engineers bringing it to a total of 20 engineers
• Identify and scope the most important tech debt refactoring project (highest impact) within our platform that brings significant value to scalability and performance and lead it to completion