Backend Engineering Manager

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YazioNutrition app
This role is 100% remote and open to candidates based in Germany, Spain, Portugal or the UK.Full-TimeManager
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Experience
Before moving into management, you spent several years as a senior backend engineer.
Required Skills
PHPSCRUMJiraGoRESTful APIsNotion

Requirements

  • Have led an engineering team with direct reports.
  • Have helped a team take on new responsibilities or change the way it works.
  • Have spent several years as a senior backend engineer before moving into management.
  • Be comfortable discussing system design, infrastructure and technical trade-offs with an experienced team.
  • Coach engineers to make decisions and handle stakeholder conversations themselves.
  • Communicate clearly and calmly under pressure, including during an outage.
  • Build relationships with leads and stakeholders while remaining open to the best solution.
  • Connect the team's work to user and business needs through a strong product mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of team rituals, including stand-ups, refinements, sprint planning, retrospectives and a bi-weekly written sync.
  • Build working relationships with squad leads and product managers so backend work is included in squad plans from the start of each quarter.
  • Build the quarterly roadmap with engineers and keep progress visible to dependent teams.
  • Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, development goals and timely feedback, and address accountability issues early.
  • Hire for the team with the Talent Acquisition team as it grows.
  • Monitor production issues and outages, ensure they reach the right person, and see that they are resolved.
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