[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @Genea

Role Description

Genea is looking for a Engineering Lead to help grow our development team. You will participate in the full SDLC from preliminary system analysis to testing and deployment. This hybrid-engineering role includes building high quality and fully performing software that meets quality and software development standards alongside a great team.

What you would do, day-to-day?

• Drive team efforts
• Have a keen eye on code quality with code scalability, maintainability, readability in mind
• Have a solution-oriented mindset and high load capacity system in mind
• Estimate work, delegate work
• Manage the people on a large engineering team to keep them aligned and focused on achieving the team’s goals
• Drives the design, strategy, and execution of software development projects to support product roadmaps
• Lead technology architecture and development as per product needs
• Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple SCRUM teams
• Monitor, and continuously update, team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence
• Ensure a consistent, regular process for assessment of goals and improvement of deliveries
• Lead many SCRUM teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features and fix prior mistakes
• Collaborate with Product Managers on new products and new features
• Implement data driven approach to execution to drive transparency

Qualifications

• 8+ years of total experience and 3+ years of relevant work experience as team lead
• Experience in microservice and event driven architecture
• Proficient in backend technologies, preferably JavaScript, but open to other technologies
• Proficient in frontend technologies, preferably React, but open to any other JavaScript-based frameworks like Angular, Vue, etc.
• Proficient in database technologies like MongoDB or RDBMS (We use PostgreSQL)
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) with experience guiding teams through planning, development, and rollout using best in industry agile practices
• Having experience in work estimation and delegation is preferable
• Understanding of testing practices like writing unit/integration test cases
• Strong articulation skills - Ability to write/explain complex problems over email or call
• Obsession for excellence - Should strive for being excellent at work in terms of quality and speed
• Professionalism - Sincere, Integrity, Commitment, Ownership
• Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate product and business strategies
• Prior experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of manager, senior engineers simultaneously working on multiple projects and technologies
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills at high levels
• Possess innate customer service skills including the ability to be empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful, and conscientious
• Strong relationship management, strategizing, project management, problem solving, and change management skills
• Experience working with AWS is highly preferable. We work with AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, RDS, SQS.

Benefits

• ✨ Work Your Way: Enjoy a flexible working environment that suits your lifestyle.
• ✨ Time Off: 24 days of PTO and 10 holidays to unwind and pursue your passions.
• ✨ Comprehensive Leave Options: Including maternity, paternity, adoption, wedding, and bereavement leaves to support you during important life events.
• ✨ Health & Safety First: Benefit from family health insurance and personal accident coverage beyond your CTC.
• ✨ Top Workplace Honors: Celebrated as a Top Workplace from 2021 to 2025.
• ✨ Balanced Workweek: Embrace a balanced life with our 5-day work schedule.