ENGINEERING MANAGER (Hybrid-URUGUAY)
ADVANCED In this role, you will provide leadership within a highly agile development environment, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and cross-functional teamwork. You’ll play a crucial part in aligning engineering efforts with company goals, guiding both front-end and back-end teams through all stages of the development lifecycle—from concept through production. The ideal
candidate brings a passion for mentorship, a strategic approach to problem-solving, and experience in an Agile setting, empowering their team to achieve excellence in both product quality and delivery.
What you’ll do:
- Demonstrate ability to effectively manage people, including a clear understanding of team members’ roles, responsibilities, and skillsets.
- Develop and maintain a strategic vision to ensure the team possesses the right skillsets and capabilities to meet current and future business needs.
- Lead and manage a team of engineers through the technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment of Lightspeed software.
- Build and implement efficient processes for managing projects and sprints.
- Implement efficient testing processes to ensure continuous application/service quality and prevent regressions and disruptions.
- Deliver scalable, resilient, high-availability applications and services running on robust deployment architectures with comprehensive health monitoring/alerting.
- Maintain effective communication and collaboration with teams, both local and remote, in completing interdependent work items.
- Maintain clear visibility of project/feature status to program management, product management, and other collaborators.
- Attend to team morale; communicate effectively with team members to understand concerns and address them.
- Enhance team efficiency, sprint velocity, and feature turnaround time while promoting a satisfying work-life balance.
- Manage individual performance, employing ongoing performance feedback and mentorship.
- Work with each team member
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years in a technical or leadership role, ideally in a software, product, or technical
- environment.
- Demonstrated experience in managing the complete product or service development
- lifecycle, from initial planning through first release, with a focus on delivering projects on
- schedule.
- Strong knowledge of and experience using agile software development techniques.
- Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, highly available web applications or services.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with fluency in English (verbal and written).
- Live in Montevideo or close
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with and supporting JBoss/Wildfly Java application server.
- Extensive experience in Java.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud-based service development, particularly using Amazon Web Services
- (AWS).
Join a North American company that is establishing itself in Uruguay with an interesting growth projection.
Possibility of working in a hybrid work scheme.