Software Engineering Manager
ŌURA
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Helsinki • 🇫🇮 Finland
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering their technical skills and professional development.
- Drive the technical vision and execution for critical, cross-functional projects in collaboration with Product, Design, Data Science, and other global teams.
- Own the planning, scoping, and delivery of your team's engineering efforts, ensuring we build robust, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance. While you won't be coding daily, your technical depth will be crucial in guiding architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and unblocking your team.
- Champion engineering excellence, cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, and refine our development processes.
- Partner with recruiting to act as the hiring manager, attracting and retaining top engineering talent for your team.
- Translate complex scientific concepts and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps and deliverables.
Requirements
- A strong technical foundation with a minimum of 6+ years in software engineering and 3+ years in a people management role.
- A technical degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven experience shipping and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications or their backend services at scale.
- A deep understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and a track record of improving team processes.
- Experience hiring and building high-performing, inclusive engineering teams.
- Strong communication, delegation, and project management skills, with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception to launch.
- Excellent people leadership skills. You champion your team, celebrate successes, and are adept at providing direct, constructive feedback to foster growth.
- A deep-seated belief in fostering a sustainable, healthy work-life balance for yourself and your team.
- A passion for leveraging data and technology to solve complex problems, thriving in an environment with high impact and high ambiguity.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Lunch benefit
- Wellness benefit
- Flexible working hours
- Collaborative, smart teammates
- An Oura ring of your own
- Wellness Time Off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringmobile applicationsbackend servicesAgile methodologiesScrum methodologiestechnical leadershiparchitectural decisionsproject managementtechnical roadmapsconsumer-facing applications
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationdelegationpeople leadershipteam buildingcontinuous improvementcollaborationproblem-solvingfeedbackwork-life balance
Certifications
degree in Computer Sciencedegree in Software Engineering