Engineering Manager

A day in the life:

• Set the daily and long-term priorities and direction for your team.
• Oversee project logistics and resource allocation, including long-term resource planning.
• Review and evaluate technical architecture from a birds-eye view to proactively identify areas of improvement in terms of long-term stability, scalability, and extensibility - implementing solutions that have platform-wide impact.
• Provide mentoring/technical guidance to junior team members and contribute to consistently raising the bar for engineering best practices such as coding standards, writing well-tested, extensible and reusable codebase/libraries.
• Conceptualise, institutionalize and provide visibility into the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to the senior engineering and leadership teams. 
• Play an active role in the recruiting process; interview, hire, and train new engineering staff.
• Exemplify and foster Fairmatic’s humble, collaborative and impact-obsessed culture.

If you feel we’re describing you, it was meant to be…

• Overall 9+ years of experience, with 2+ years in people management.
• Expertise in architecting and scaling distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of backend technologies (Python, Java, or Golang) and distributed databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Proven ability to lead teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with a business-first mindset.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills