Software Engineer Manager

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Software Engineer Manager in Brazil! Oversee a team of software engineers, ensuring high-quality technical deliveries. Collaborate with the Product Manager to evaluate task feasibility, prioritize issues, and manage agile ceremonies. Design, build scalable APIs, and integrate Gympass with partners. Foster a culture of innovation, mentor your team, and assess their performance. Participate in the development of critical services, focusing on scalability and resilience. Work in a collaborative, agile environment, and contribute to incident resolution. Live the mission of inspiring and empowering others by prioritizing wellbeing.

Requirements

• Experienced in managing and mentoring multiple multidisciplinary teams of software engineers
• Experienced in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications
• Experienced in designing and developing complex modern web applications
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
• Experienced in Cloud-based architectures (AWS / GCP)
• Experienced in developing RESTful/GraphQL web services collaborating with front-end teams to create mocks, define payloads and follow the HTTP best practices
• Experienced in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience dealing with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as RabbitMQ, KAFKA , ActiveMQ, etc and a in depth understanding of their use cases and pitfalls
• Versed in concepts such as DDD, SOLID, Design Patterns distributed systems and architecture. Capable of understanding pitfalls and anticipating common failure modes of a microservice
• Experienced in working with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB understanding common use cases and performance pitfalls
• Experienced in implementing prototypes and in practices and concepts such as MVP, A/B testing, and feature toggles for rolling-out features to production
• Communication skills to work with multidisciplinary teams located in several countries with different cultures - You need to be able to articulate ideas clearly when speaking to groups in English

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of software engineers and ensure the pace and quality of their technical deliveries
• Serve as a technical reference for your team
• Code key features, review pull requests, and actively participate in architectural decisions
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to evaluate task feasibility, choose the best strategy for assigning and splitting user stories, and prioritize engineering issues and technical debts
• Ensure that agile ceremonies are running effectively and watch out for any process bottlenecks
• Design, build scalable APIs, the integration process between Gympass and partners (Club Management Systems), and implement new features at the Partners Portal and Wellhub App
• Question the product team and stakeholders about the scope and timing of features, balancing complexity and opportunity cost
• Foster a culture of innovation in your team
• Mentor, facilitate, and conduct regular one-on-ones with team members
• Ensure team members are constantly challenged, recognized, engaged, and improving their technical skills
• Assess team member performance regularly and plan for their career development
• Be accountable for the squad's deliverables in terms of both quality and quantity
• Participate in the development of some of the most critical and challenging services in our ecosystem, seeking to build long-term and sustainable solutions
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve services focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience
• Develop, often in pair programming, parts of the system (expected around 50%)
• Account for systems reliability, scalability, SLA and SLO
• Manage technical debts and engineering backlog
• Support existing systems looking to enhance functionality, increase scale, and transform in new ways to meet our product demands
• Work in a collaborative and agile environment that prioritizes people over process and is laser-focused on productivity
• Take part in incident resolution and troubleshooting in production
• Maintain the project technical vision up to date and complete for everyone
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and edge cases on a global scale
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life balance

Preferred Qualifications

Kotlin

Benefits

• Health, dental, and life insurance
• Flexible hybrid and full remote work options
• Home office stipend and a monthly flexible work allowance
• Flexible schedule to adjust working hours based on personal schedule, time zone, and business needs
• Access to onsite gyms and fitness studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more
• Gold plan of Wellhub benefits at no cost, and other premium plans significantly discounted
• Vacations after 6 months and 3 days off per year + 1 day off for each year of tenure (up to 5 additional days) + extra day off for your birthday
• 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave
• Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth