Engineering Manager, Platform Team
SonarSource
- Genf
- Unbefristet
- Vollzeit
- Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success.
- Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard.
- Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly.
- Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy and ensure that the team's work and focus align with this vision.
- Be responsible that the squad defines clear objectives aligned with team, department, and company goals.
- Be accountable that the squad tracks sprints and progress.
- Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully.
- Ensure the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.).
- Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensure we recruit enough to reach our goals.
- Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad.
- Lead by example, modelling the behaviours and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership.
- 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, including a proper understanding of testing. Advanced knowledge in the Java ecosystem is mandatory for this role as well as a good understanding of the devops mindset and ecosystem.
- Having a developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework.
- Good knowledge of at least one programming language along with its development environment to understand end-user's context and expectations.
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams with a strong taint on DevOps skillset.
- A growth mindset and a passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential.
- Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and resources effectively.
- Capability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it, before jumping to possible solutions/actions.
- Ability to deliver effective feedback.
- Good listening skills.
- Ability to face small conflicts in a healthy way and help parties resolve them.
- High level of autonomy and still accepting help and feedback from team members and peers.
- Ability to challenge yourself.
- We value a safe work culture - founded in respect, kindness, and the right to fail.
- We hire great people - we value communication skills as much as technical prowess and we strive to create a work environment that allows for everyone to succeed and feel empowered to do their best work. Our 500+ SonarSourcers from 35 different nationalities can relate!
- Work-life balance - a healthy work-life balance is very important at Sonar.
- Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life's important moments.
- We promote continuous learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is the key to growth and success! We're happy to support all employees in this journey if desired.