Syde GmbH

Engineering Manager – Enterprise WordPress

Syde GmbH

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

ERPJavaScriptLAMPPHPReactWordPress

About the role

  • Conduct regular check-ins, 1:1 meetings, and feedback/performance reviews with your direct reports.
  • Gather and provide professional feedback to your direct reports from their respective project teams, including project managers and delivery leads.
  • Offer mentorship first-hand or help find support elsewhere inside or outside the company.
  • Be the primary point of contact for your direct reports regarding handling planned and unplanned time off, personal updates, but also any needs or difficulties they may be facing.
  • Develop a thorough knowledge of Syde's engineering career ladder and assist your direct reports in setting and achieving progression goals, helping them identify growth and skill development opportunities.
  • Regularly review allocations for your direct reports, discussing fit for upcoming projects, skills, and other allocation considerations.
  • Represent your direct reports, as well as their project teams, in meta-level discussions about team structure, well-being, and professional development.
  • Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure the engineering discipline remains innovative and competitive.
  • Provide continuous technical expertise and guidance to your direct reports and other engineers.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, encouraging the adoption of best practices across the Engineering discipline.
  • Contribute to the setting of engineering standards and the maintenance of documentation, tools, and templates.
  • Facilitate clear and effective horizontal and vertical communication within the engineering discipline, and between engineering and other relevant departments within the company.
  • Participate in project retrospectives and other relevant ceremonies of your direct reports.
  • Help ensure a cohesive approach to solution design and development, contributing to the development of the overall engineering strategy, and aligning engineering activities with overall business goals.
  • Participate in the hiring process for Engineering Managers and other engineering roles.
  • Fortlaufende fachliche Begleitung und Anleitung deiner direkten Mitarbeiter:innen und anderer Entwickler:innen
  • Aktive Unterstützung von Entwickler:innen in ihrer persönlichen und beruflichen Weiterentwicklung
  • Aktive Unterstützung bei der Gestaltung und Verwirklichung von fachlichen und beruflichen Wachstumszielen
  • Mitwirkung bei der Klärung von Konfliktsituationen und Bewältigung von Herausforderungen in Teams, Squads oder des Unternehmens
  • Mitwirkung am Einstellungsprozess für Engineering Manager:innen und andere Positionen im Engineering-Bereich

Requirements

  • At least two years of experience managing engineers in an international, multicultural agency context.
  • Technical background, with past experience of at least five years in software/web engineering, also in technical leadership roles.
  • Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers.
  • Experience with gathering and delivering constructive feedback.
  • Ability to create professional development plans aligning individual and company goals.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Growth-oriented, problem-solving, and conflict-navigating skills.
  • Availability to work in European timezones (UTC-1 to UTC+3), and occasionally participate in meetings in the LATAM timezone (UTC-7 to UTC-3).
  • Nachgewiesene Erfahrung in der Führung von Entwickler:innen in einem internationalen, multikulturellen Agenturumfeld
  • Umfassendes Wissen über Technologien und Trends der Webentwicklung, insbesondere mit WordPress, dem JavaScript Ecosystem und dem LAMP/LEMP Stack
  • Langjährige Praxis in der technischen Leitung und Realisierung anspruchsvoller Webprojekte
  • Tiefgreifendes Wissen über die Herausforderungen in der Abwicklung komplexer Engineering-Projekte im Kundenauftrag
  • Bewährte Kompetenz in der beruflichen Unterstützung und Anleitung von Koleg:innen aus dem Engineering-Bereich
  • Erfahrung im Einholen und Vermitteln konstruktiven Feedbacks
  • Expertise in der strategischen Planung beruflicher Entwicklungspfade
  • Ausgezeichnete kommunikative Fähigkeiten und soziale Kompetenz
  • Kompetenzen im aktiven Zuhören, entwicklungsorientiertem Denken, Problemlösung, Verhandlungsgeschick und Konfliktmanagement
  • Erfahrung mit Einstellungsverfahren und Leistungsbeurteilungen im Engineering-Bereich
  • Experience with Slack, Jira, Confluence, Personio, Leapsome, or Runn.
  • Erfahrung mit Tools wie Slack, Google workspace, Jira, Confluence, Personio
  • Kompetenz in der Nutzung digitaler Tools für die Arbeit im Homeoffice