Engineering Manager

September 11

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BetRivers | PlaySugarHouse | RushBet

iGaming • Sports Betting • Casino Industry • Casino • B2B Vendor

501 - 1000

💰 $160M Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Description

• The Engineering Manager is primarily responsible for the delivery and quality of services in their product team. • Participates on a limited basis in engineering wide improvement activities related to processes, innovation, and ways of working. • Ensures team members are fully informed about information relevant to them and given clear expectations, justifications, and receive follow up on the impact of their services. • Provides guidance to direct reports on how to manage their work, while also monitoring and addressing any people management concerns for direct reports, including low performers, high performers, personal development, engagement and job satisfaction, morale and culture, formal performance reviews and others. • Leads effective delivery of sprint and quarterly goals. • Creates clarity for the team on sprint, team, and career goals. • Solves almost all problems within the team. • Communicates problems proactively with proposed solutions. • Proactive in identifying and clearing bottlenecks & roadblocks for the team. • Learn and help the team to learn from failures (not delivering or not meeting quality standards). • Lead in resolving any production incidents for services owned by the team. • Monitor that all agreed engineering best practices and defined processes are followed. • Continuously improve the delivery process. • Listens to feedback from the team. • Listens to feedback from PO, SEM, and Head of Delivery. • Provides feedback to PO, SEM, and Head of Delivery about inefficiencies in the current process. • Makes sure that improvement ideas are either implemented or follow up on why the idea did not pan out. • Helps PO to succeed in creating specs and scoping of features. • Gives feedback to specs early and often. • Drives scoping of sprints with the team using the input from Product Owner. • Helps POs break down large deliverables into more manageable but independently valuable chunks. • Promotes and enables tackling of technical debt and technical roadmap items. • Drives and monitors technical excellence within the team. • Understands the personal needs of each team member. • Manages morale and motivation within the team. • Leads recruiting efforts and makes headcount recommendations for their team.

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record of applying software engineering practices and the software development life cycle to deliver features • Demonstrated track record in the use of Jira and Confluence to manage software delivery to successfully deliver features • Capable of participating and contributing in high level technical discussions • Proven experience in diagnosing and resolving complex problems • Strong attention to detail, ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment showing flexibility and adaptability in dynamic circumstances • History of skillfully prioritizing and effectively managing multiple tasks and projects • Experience in reviewing business requirements and translating into delivery plans • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written, including the ability to present technical information to non-technical stakeholders, facilitate team or other defined scope meetings, listening and interpersonal skills with a commitment to continuous self-development, positive mindset) • Proven history of mentoring and coaching team members to improve performance • Comfortable managing team members with different skill sets from their own