Head of Engineering (offline)

Our client is a site-building platform with more than 13M users worldwide. The company enables small businesses, non-profits, and everyday users to create, manage, and grow their online presence easily and with no technical knowledge. In addition to a robust, easy-to-use website builder and secure hosting services, its solution offers e-commerce and marketing solutions.

Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

About the role
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the entire engineering team management and effective team process implementation to grow the product according to the Roadmap. You’ll manage, guide, and coordinate a smart and experienced cross-functional engineering team that can solve any kind of technical and business problem.

We are a multinational company distributed within three continents, therefore advanced English is a must.

Responsibilities:
- Manage and mentor all members of the engineering department;
- Monitor the performance of individual contributors and help manage their professional development;
- Be in charge of Roadmap execution, and delivery commitments;
- Be a people manager, empowering the engineers to make the biggest impact possible for the company while reaching their professional development goals;
- Establish and maintain processes to ensure the Engineering team works efficiently (internally, and with other teams);
- Maximize team quality, teamwork, and team productivity;
- Plan Engineering team resources, build the best processes for the team, and analyze and eliminate defects in development processes and practices;
- Define and execute a hiring plan.

Your Skills:
- 5+ years of managing development teams experience (20+ team members);
- Has strong software engineering fundamentals and can grasp technical concepts quickly;
- Has a strong track record of building and leading productive engineering teams;
- Has the ability to systematically break ambiguous problems down and build execution plans;
- Must be an independent, self-motivated leader who is able to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results;
- Has experience with developers hiring and onboarding;
- Has experience in managing geographically distributed remote teams;
- Impeccable leadership, organizational, analytical, and time management skills;
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and mentoring;
- Advanced level using Jira / GitHub Issues;
- Excellent teamwork skills;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English);
- Is curious and has a learning mindset;
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.

What we offer:
- Opportunity to significantly influence our product roadmap and strategy, and technologies;
- Challenging work in the international professional environment;
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely;
- 20 paid vacation days per year;
- Paid sick leave;
- Team building events;
- Medical insurance;
- A social package, including gym membership, and English courses compensation (50%).

About Trueplay

Trueplay is a tech company that turns over digital industries by tokenizing and moving businesses to Web3.

We carry out brands from Web2 to Web3, making it safe and easy.
Our focus is on creation a solid ground for businesses to develop and communicate in the Web3 format.
Our mission is to tokenize businesses so every user can access transparent information and brands to open up new opportunities.
Our vision: we develop a culture of transparency by empowering brands to build credibility in their relationships with stakeholders such as partners, customers, and users.

Used technologies: VueJs, TypeScript, Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Quartz, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Microservices, AWS, Kubernetes(EKS), Aurora, S3, Sentry, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, REST, WebSockets, GitLab, Maven, Gradle

Company website:
https://trueplay.io/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/trueplay/