Engineering Manager - Core Platform Team

Job Description

As a leader of the Core Platform team, you will be leading work on business critical features that spun across business boundaries. You ll be able to impact most if not all of our internal staff by improving features like our search system, authentication and permissions, our tasking and traceability systems, batch operations, staff management and many others. As such, you ll have the opportunity to have direct and first hand feedback with users of the system with a fast feedback and improvement cycle.The Core Platform team is a new product development unit. You ll be able to contribute with it s creation by helping define the team s culture, processes and objectives. On the product side, you will be supported by the creative visions and careful planning of a Product Manager and Product Designer, and together bring about amazing new features to life.On the technical side at Core Platform, you ll be involved in technical and architectural decisions that will have a wide impact and require top notch quality, test coverage and planning.This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere. Due to the remote nature of this role, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.Responsibilities:You will be leading a team of highly skilled professionals to create and maintain world-class products used by our users externally and internally. Among other responsibilities:
• Lead the recruiting and hiring process of the team.
• Set goals for your team and team members using the OKRs framework.
• Understand the big picture of what your team is doing and why.
• Inspire and motivate your team.
• Communicate with stakeholders regularly and proactively.
• Communicate proactively with your team and the Product Manager.
• Create a productive and enjoyable work environment for the team.
• Own process of ticket creation and ticket quality, as well as effective grooming and planning, all the way to delivery.
• Establish feedback loops and give your team members immediate feedback.
• Participate in regular performance reviews.
• Facilitate, and when necessary resolve technical and interpersonal discussions.
• Ensure the overall output quality of the team and frequently engage in code reviews.
• Mentor team members and collaborate with them on personal and career growth.
• Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager and architects.
• Actively discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors to help shape engineering s environment at Toptal
In the first week, expect to:
• Start at the team by being introduced to Toptal and its culture, meeting colleagues, and get access to documentation and repositories.
In the first month, expect to:
• Complete onboarding, understand the team s immediate roadmap, become acquainted with your team and processes and participate in hiring team members.
In the first three months, expect to:
• Have led the shipping of at least one major feature in your team having company-wide impact.
• Be working with your team and understand its mission and domain.
• Conduct regular 1:1s with your teammates, and begin to understand their strengths and aspirations.
• Be leading your team s efforts from planning to delivery.
In the first six months, expect to:
• Have set and followed through at least one full quarter of OKRs.
• Build a deep understanding of the mission, constraints, and capabilities of your team and squad.
• Develop relationships with engineers, team leads, and other colleagues to maximise cross-collaboration whenever beneficial.
• Contribute improvement suggestions at an Engineering-wide and even Company-wide level.
In the first year, expect to:
• Organize at least one team gathering.
• Have defined yearly OKRs with and for your team.
Requirements:
• Be first and foremost a leader, not a developer. However, you stay up to date with programming-related topics and work shoulder-to-shoulder with your team when required.
• Have 5+ years of web development experience.
• Have previous experience leading a product engineering team.
• Have a solid understanding of development and quality assurance methodologies and concepts. Have a track record of delivering successful products as an engineer and as an engineering manager.
• Have experience guiding the continuous improvement of process and technology.
• Thrive on providing and receiving honest but always constructive feedback.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will lead by example and not simply be here just to tell other people what to do.
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Keyskills :
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