Engineering Manager

Job title: Engineering Manager

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 260+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment. 

Location: Bangalore, India

Department: Engineering

Job summary:

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, with experience in developing scalable SaaS applications and leading and managing high performing distributed teams, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. 

We are looking for an individual with great leadership and team handling skills, strong hands-on experience in software development, and excited to work in a fun and friendly fast paced environment.

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Manage a team (comprising of Software Engineers, Sr. Software Engineers, QA Engineers), including providing technical direction, task allocation, and code reviews.
• Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Owns overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
• Contribute technically to projects.
• Work closely with the Product Management team to ensure we're building the best products which deliver value to our clients.
• Set up best practices for development, champion their adoption
• Work closely with team to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment

• Managing customer issues and escalations and tracking the Customer SLAs closely
• Defining/evolving and enforcing relevant software development processes for the Engineering team.
• Ensuring that the team complies to the quality standards
• Active communication and coordination with clients and internal stakeholder
• Motivating, mentoring, and helping your team with developing their careers and provide guidance for performance appraisals
• Participate in hiring different roles required within the team

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima: 

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10- 12 years in the software industry and 3-5 years of experience managing customer facing software development teams.
• Minimum of 5 years of software product development experience, and hands on technical work with full life cycle implementations.
• Experience in Web application development / Hosted solutions
• Comfortable guiding teams in an Agile environment
• Should have worked in cross functional teams (product management, development, QA, sales, customers), should be able understand team dynamics and priorities of each functional stakeholder and work with them to meet project goals
• Should be assertive, proficient in resolving conflicts and gains consensus in cross functional teams
• Adaptable to changing business requirements and priorities
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, build effective teams and to motivate, direct and coach team members; ability to manage multi-site teams
• Strong Java, Database fundamentals.
• Knowledge of and experience in, maintaining mission critical applications with 24x7 operations, 5 9’s availability (Desirable)
• Knowledge of AWS, Springboot, ReactJS, Postgres (Desirable)

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

• 32 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work From Home assistance and equipment budget
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• International travel opportunities & Global annual meet-up
• High-quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)