At SPD Technology, we bring together a team of like-minded people who are driven by the desire to bring value through their work, united in their commitment to high performance and delivering custom, cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients’ growth. We empower our people with a culture of excellence and enable them with the opportunity to uphold their accountability to contribute on each level. We value humanity and collaboration, encourage professional and personal growth, and foster a supportive and flexible work environment where everyone’s contribution is welcomed.
We are looking for an Engineer Manager to join us as part of our team.
About the role
As the Engineering Manager in PitchBook’s team, you will be responsible for providing software delivery capabilities by building and growing software engineering teams, supporting them during changes, enabling talents and forming productive relationships with the entire organization. You will utilize your extensive background for working with talented engineers and insightful product managers to build exceptional solutions relied upon by thousands of PitchBook customers (many of them have big names, and the team is proud to work for their needs).
If you love growing strong teams, build customer-centric solutions, can drive and embrace changes, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused, and believe work should be fun, come join us!
About the project
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in London, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Serving clients in 19 languages, we provide thousands of global business professionals with comprehensive data on the private and public markets to help them discover and execute opportunities with confidence. Worldwide usage includes large corporations, start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, and many others. Features of PitchBook: Advanced search / Discovery & insights / Company profiles / Workflow & efficiency / Many more
Team
2-3 dedicated teams, average team 5-8 engineers.
Team is responsible for the creation and maintenance of our gold-copy list of users, accounts, subscriptions/licenses, and groups. Included in identity management is “right to forget” and other user anonymization features. Various facets of identity data (user, account, group, license, etc.) with 3rd parties, which includes maintaining consistent data synchronization with various known vendors today (Auth0, Marketo, Salesforce) and potential integration with future entities that own parts of identity data.
Technical stack
Java 17+, k8s, Spring Boot, Kafka, GCP.
Methodology
Scrum-based Agile
As a qualified expert You will
- Manage and grow several engineering teams with their leads within a business unit or product area.
- Participate and supervise conversations on key technical decisions, delivery expectations, people allocation, collaboration with product managers and external stakeholders; be involved deeply into team’s work and provide assistance to customers when necessary.
- Absorb and embrace the business expectations and needs when communicating with senior stakeholders and convert it into actions.
- Coach teams on best practices for software delivery.
- Facilitate relationship with product, program, customer success and other teams, providing the feedback to the stakeholders.
- Ensure teams have clear understanding of goals and and priorities, along with maintaining excellence: fixing technical debt, doing improvements and providing innovations.
- Keep high morale and motivation within teams even during complicated situations, facilitate a culture of care, mutual trust, help, transparency and open-mindedness.
- Systematically support and recognize team’s success, assist them in understanding, accepting and learning from fails.
- Manage staffing: hire new team members according to company values, culture code, budget but keeping the highest professional bar possible; make hard decisions when “no go” cases happen.
- Monitor and maintain performance, receive and process feedback on the team holistically and at the personal level.
- Drive performance assessment and honest compensation review for the team members.
We’re looking for you if you have
- 5+ years of experience in software development, primarily with Java stack.
- 2+ years of experience in managing teams (or big team, 15+) in modern software development company with focus on result and efficiency.
- Understanding and experience with a typical SDLC, Agile frameworks and their trade-offs.
- Understanding and experience with modern software engineering technologies and their major pros/cons.
- Humanity, empathy which are aligned with performance, business acumen, cost analysis, setting clear expectations and giving constructive feedback.
- Be open-minded and capable to learn from the experience as well as courage of making decisions which lead to desired future state.
- Excellent communication skills in English and native language, written and verbal. You can explain your idea to any engineer or manager and perceive valuable feedback.
Nice to Have
- Experience in leading development of complex, distributed software systems requiring deep domain or technical expertise.
- Experience with Scrum or Agile at scale.
- Experience with metric based team management: motivation, performance and time analysis, etc.
What’s in it for You
Reveal great tech solutions
Join the team of experts who create custom, cutting-edge tech solutions for world-renowned businesses, fueling client growth. Unleash your potential, tackle new challenges, and be part of a team that values your skills and contributions. Focus on long-term impact and building tailored, long-lasting partnerships with our clients.
Experience an agile and flexible working environment
Enjoy the freedom of fully remote work with a flexible working schedule. Empower yourself with a stable workload and a stable income, supported by provided laptops and licensed software. We focus on lasting cooperation and unite result-oriented individuals who stand on a high-performance approach to work.
Embrace the opportunity for personal and professional growth
Benefit from performance and merit reviews, elevate your skills with personal development plans, and individual learnings through the corporate library, public speaking support, and more.
Be among like-minded people
Work with a team of one mind who cares about what they do and how they do. Collaborate with top-notch experts who are always ready to help and support you through any challenges. Join company-wide tech and cultural events, and contribute to meaningful CSR initiatives that resonate with your values. Feel supported by your HR, and take advantage of our referral bonus program.
Interview steps
- Pre-Screening with the recruiter.
- Technical Interview.
- HRBP Interview.
- Client Interview.
