Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Azul, a leading Java company, as a Software Engineering Manager for Azul Platform Prime - Optimizer Hub. You will oversee the design and development of this crucial product, mentoring engineers and collaborating with product managers and technical leads. This role demands strong project management skills, including release cycle management, bug tracking, reporting, and schedule forecasting. Based in the Czech Republic, you will leverage data analytics to drive development processes and work with customer support to resolve escalated issues. Azul offers a competitive compensation package including equity, annual bonuses, flexible working hours, and a generous vacation policy.

Requirements

• Experience leading and building teams, ability to asses engineer’s skills and experience and help with their development
• Deeply knowledgeable in engineering project management including release cycles, bug tracking applications, reporting, and schedule forecasting
• Understand project architecture, used technologies, and engineering practices
• A stellar skillset of collaboration, planning, influencing, prioritization, and time management
• Ability to drive data analytics and reporting of development processes
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Expert in the use of Jira, Confluence and related tools by engineering teams to accurately track software development projects
• 3+ years minimum working in an engineering manager or technical project manager role for a software organization
• Software Engineering background, i.e. hands on experience developing software product in Java or C/C++
• A positive attitude around learning new skills and growing your career
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and development of Optimizer Hub product
• Mentor engineer
• Work with product managers and technical leads to respond to customer needs by clearly articulated plans and execution of the plans
• Keep a living release calendar of implementation phases / events to ensure plans can accommodate realistic schedules / avoid conflict and provide accurate reports on major activities
• Build and manage dashboards and reporting on development performance metrics, top-down and bottom-up forecasting, benchmarks, trends, and ad hoc analyses
• Use your subject matter expertise to drive processes that lead to predictable insights with the minimum necessary overhead
• Work with customer support to track escalated issues
• Help to improve our project management processes with a special focus on Agile development

Preferred Qualifications

Startup / Small company experience would be benefitial

Benefits

• Equity Program - be part of the company success
• Annual bonus based on company performance
• Referral Program - bring your colleague we would all love to work with
• IT Equipment - MacBook Pro or any other HW according to your preferences
• Work-life balance - 5 weeks of holidays, 5 sick days, flexible working hours, 100% work from home also possible
• Offices in Prague City Centre - if you prefer
• Most importantly you will work with top experts worldwide who contribute to the Java ecosystem