Engineering Manager (Java stack), PitchBook (offline)

About us

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 Engineering 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

Our stack
Java 11/17 — Spring Boot — PostgreSQL — Kafka — Junit —, K8s — GCP, AWS

Team
SDEL, 3 SDE BE, 3SDE FE, 3QA,

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
Experience an agile and flexible working environment Work fully remote or from our office hubs or in a hybrid work model. Enjoy 20 business days of paid vacation, unlimited sick leave, 4 days of emergency leave.

Feel cared about Organize your well-being with a medical insurance yearly budget / financial reimbursement of expenses on medical services outside Ukraine. Get compensation for education, sports, equipment, massage, and rehabilitation, along with access to our well-being program, corporate loan, and tax and legal support.

Embrace the opportunity for personal and professional growth Take advantage of individual learning and certification budget, career paths and personal development plans, company-wide tech and cultural events, educational leave, language courses, access to our corporate library, and more.

Interview steps
Interview with Engineering Managers
Interview with Principal Architects
Interview with HR Partner
Interview with the Directors of Engineering
Embrace the opportunity to innovate with us!

About SPD Technology

SPD Technology is a custom software product development and IT consulting company with a world-class team of over 600 experts with extensive expertise in solving big-time technical challenges, efficiently managing large-scale software development efforts, and seamlessly integrating with the client’s business through tailored, long-term partnerships for delivering cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients' growth.

Our major expertise includes 10 key industries: Fintech, E-commerce, Telecom / IoT, e-Learning, Logistics, Insurance, Biotech, Cybersecurity, Medicine, Wellness. Our top-notch engineering teams deliver Web, Mobile, AI/ML or Enterprise solutions for world-renowned businesses and budding startups. Our key clients are iconic brands such as PitchBook, MorningStar, Roche, and more. Ten of our clients report more than $100 million in annual revenue.

We have 3 development centers in Eastern Europe, and remote teams, working worldwide. With over 17 years of experience in designing, building, streamlining, and supporting software products, SPD Technology drives growth of businesses from the US, the U.K., Israel, Switzerland, Mexico, and other countries.

Let’s create empowering tech solutions together!

Company website:
https://spd.tech/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/spd-ukraine/

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