Engineering Manager

You will:

• Be passionate about building great software products 
• Be passionate about building and leading a great software development team
• Thrive in leading innovation as well as day to day execution and problem solving in a fast paced cutting edge technology environment. 
• Be responsible for ensuring the on time, on budget and high quality delivery of digital entertainment products and cloud systems that are used by millions of consumers
• Partner with cross functional and cross cultural  teams including designers, architects, project managers, QA engineers, third party systems providers and customers to meet company business objectives
• Retain and spread organisational knowledge through documentation, best practices and training
• At all times consider how to engineer software solutions the right way for high performance and for future maintainability instead of taking shortcuts 
• Contribute to product roadmap and improvement of development methodologies 
• Be proactive and be alert for potential organisational, process and technical issues before they arise.

You have:

• Experience in recruiting, motivating, managing and retaining a high performing software engineering team that evolves and improves its knowledge over time
• Understanding of quality processes required to ensure delivery of best possible software products every release
• Hands-on development experience and ability to lead your team at a code / architecture level 
• Experience with react , Kotlin and optionally swift.
• A solid grasp of Agile software development and deployment lifecycle on multiple consumer devices, cloud services and physical servers in data centers
• Experience with Git based source code management, Continuous Integration and JIRA configuration / task management 
• Good understanding of latest internet technology stacks on both client and server side
• Good understanding of tools / best practices for integration, security, scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, logging and error handling
• Good understanding of digital media domain systems including one or more of the following: video workflow, video delivery, DRM, content management, ecommerce,  payments, data analytics and consumer device platforms
• 3 or more years of experience of managing software engineering teams
• 6 or more years of hands on enterprise / service provider grade development experience 
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time and your team’s time to get the job done at the high international quality levels that we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry