The Team:Celonis is one of the world’s most exciting companies ($12B valuation, 3k employees). Come help us in Palo Alto by further developing a tightly-knit 9 engineer team that is designing and building Celonis’s full stack systems that enable users to write accurate queries and store their business definitions in a reusable manner.  Since Knowledge is a platform capability that touches all parts of the Celonis product, you’ll encounter a variety of technical challenges and work closely with backend, PM, and UX partners to build best in class user experiences. You’ll help bring order to querying big data in creative and insightful ways while bringing the next generation of Celonis to all of our customers.

Join us if you want to grow in your engineering knowledge and management skills. You’ll leave your mark on a rapidly growing company.

The Role:As an Engineering Manager, you’re responsible for delivering robust full stack applications and libraries. You will be at the frontier of frontend development, pushing the boundaries of product, UX, and engineering to enhance the Process Intelligence Graph with the next generation of process mining.

Users need help categorizing and simplifying their data in order to explore and identify insights to optimize their unique business processes. We are building the next generation of process insights with object-centric process mining to help them save time and money.

If you are looking to be challenged and build solutions that scale, Celonis is the environment for you to thrive. There are a variety of tech stacks at Celonis, including but not limited to Java Spring Boot, Postgres, Vertica DB, Angular, Typescript, and more. We focus on building extensible, performant, reliable, and beautiful applications.

Your work at Celonis will directly impact companies and people around the globe as they improve their processes to save money, reduce waste, improve automation and generally become more efficient. For example, Celonis can help a company understand their carbon footprint in order to reduce CO2 emissions and deliver a healthier planet for future generations.

The work you’ll do:

• Build, lead and grow the Knowledge Full Stack team in Palo Alto to successfully deliver their mission
• Use technical judgment and intuition about customer behavior to determine the best paths forward on the features we have and trade off properties like time to implement, maintainability, scalability, performance, etc.
• Work closely with other engineering teams, x-functional stakeholders, and leads to ensure the development and delivery of impactful product features that drive customer value and shape the overall product strategy
• Manage the performance and support the career development of engineers up to the Staff level
• Build and maintain an engineering culture of trust, ownership, and collaboration within the larger organization, including providing upward and outward visibility of the team and their work.

The product you’ll work on:

• You’ll help build the next generation of process mining!
• Allows the user to add semantic meaning to their business graph which they can then query in milliseconds
• A best-in-class query authoring experience that guides users through answering their deepest process mining focussed questions
• Helps users store and reuse their business definitions while building applications on the platform
• High visibility to sales & executive leadership

The qualifications you need:

• 3+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager or technical leadership position leading projects and people
• Strong technical knowledge (staff engineer-level knowledge of software engineering is expected)
• Experience working with technologies like Java, Postgres, and microservices
• Strong communication skills (English), allowing you to collaborate smoothly with people across multiple roles & countries
• Ability to work earlier in the day to coordinate with Europe timezones
• Knowledge of day-to-day team organization methodologies like agile
• Ability to lead and make decisions to define the road ahead
• Ability to resolve technical conflicts when necessary, fostering a positive environment for escalations
• Ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team