Responsibilities

• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to team members.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, emphasizing innovation and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within scope, even in a distributed workforce setting.
• Implement effective project management strategies to mitigate risks and ensure successful project outcomes.
• Develop and implement strategies for effective collaboration within a distributed workforce, leveraging communication tools and collaboration platforms.
• Establish and maintain transparent communication channels to keep distributed teams informed and aligned with project goals.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among distributed teams, fostering an agile and adaptable work culture.
• Implement and champion Agile best practices within the engineering organization, ensuring teams adhere to principles and methodologies.
• Lead the design and implementation of software solutions based on microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with architects and development teams to establish and uphold microservices best practices.

Requirements

• Previous experience managing a team of 7+ Engineers.
• Experience working at scale in an enterprise environment, ideally developing SaaS applications/platforms.
• Expertise in agile processes and driving a high-level of execution in teams.
• Proven success with accountability and leading a team through complex challenges that are large in scope.
• Successful track record of identifying roadblocks and keeping teams on track to their roadmap. 
• Pride in predictability and maintaining a high quality product while meeting deadlines. 
• Strong knowledge in OOD, Domain-driven design, and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge in mobile and UI technologies beneficial.
• Excellent communication skills and understanding of the realities of developing in an enterprise environment.




Firstup expects the base salary for this role to be between $160,000-200,000. The starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.