Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join HiveMQ's Product Development organization as a (Senior) Engineering Manager to lead the Edge team, responsible for developing and maintaining HiveMQ Edge, a software-based Edge MQTT Gateway. You will guide and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring successful product delivery aligned with customer needs and the open-source community. Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to define team goals and priorities, break down roadblocks, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. You will also contribute to HiveMQ's overall platform strategy and live a culture of teamwork and quality. This role requires strong leadership skills, extensive software development experience (JVM), and a deep understanding of IIoT and related protocols. The ideal candidate will possess a servant leadership mentality, excellent communication skills, and a systematic approach to problem-solving.

Requirements

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing product teams in technology companies
• Extensive experience in developing high quality software for the JVM
• Experience with IT/OT convergence and an understanding of the IIoT domain with topics like IIoT protocols (OPC UA, Modbus, S7 or similar), SCADA and MES, data aggregation, predictive maintenance and industrial automation
• A belief in a servant leadership mentality, but also the ability to lead from the front when needed
• Excellent communication skills and an outstanding work ethic
• Deep understanding of modern agile software engineering methodologies
• Ability to work with customer requirements and experience collaborating with customer success, sales and other product teams
• A systematic but pragmatic approach paired with a high sense of ownership and pride in the work you accomplish as a team
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Guide, mentor, and support a team of passionate engineers, fostering career growth, skill development, and high performance
• Own product and value delivery in close collaboration with the Product Manager, ensuring alignment with customer needs and the open source community
• Work with product and engineering leadership, product managers, and engineers to define clear goals, objectives, and priorities for the team
• Break down roadblocks as well as manage communications with stakeholders and other teams. Create a culture of continuous improvement through retrospection
• Help define and own team metrics, KPIs alongside the data and means to measure them
• Drive quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes and rituals. This includes leading effective postmortems and ensuring actions are followed-up
• Contribute to the overall HiveMQ platform, technical and engineering strategy and direction of HiveMQ
• Live a culture of teamwork, quality, growth and bias for action