Engineering Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Provide managerial oversight of multiple scrum teams to deliver products, considering both individual performance and team goals and ensuring alignment with the overall product line objectives.
• Develop your team to grow them as engineers and as people, to make their development positions at athena their 'best job ever.'
• Maintain technical knowledge of product architecture and provide connective tissue, manage dependencies; ensure delivery of quality releases in partnership with product management and other engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance within the engineering team.
• Develop and implement processes to optimize engineering workflows and efficiency.
• Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent.
• People and Performance management.
• Manage engineering budgets and resources effectively.

Typical Qualifications

• Have 2+ years leading teams in a product company, with expertise in modern programming object-oriented languages, knowledge of Unix/Linux, relational databases, and various other technologies like modern JS frameworks.
• Strong Agile experience and excellent technical knowledge in software development, maintenance and production support including experience with web technologies, cloud computing, databases, and APIs.
• Track record of developing employees professionally, utilize all individuals to the fullest potential, building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, keen understanding of the needs of the team, to provide opportunities for growth and learning.
• Record of success in delivering results, balancing priorities to ensure delivery, demonstrating excellence in leading teams and in liaison to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong experience with risk management and planning.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.