Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Rakuten Kobo

• You have 5+ years of experience in a leadership/management role
• You are a Certified Scrum Master or have equivalent experience in an Agile practitioner role
• You’ve demonstrated the ability to grow the abilities of others by providing coaching and mentoring
• You have 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in an agile development environment, preferably in an embedded or C++ environment
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Desirable

• Rakuten Kobo is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the team building our market-leading eReader devices
• Leading a team of 20 (mix of permanent employees and contractors) to deliver market-leading software to a large number of devices and millions of customers
• Overseeing and evolving the team’s Agile delivery process to continuously improve velocity and quality while maintaining high engagement levels
• Collaborating with Product Management to understand the Product roadmap, requested scope and timelines, helping communicate it to the team, consolidating feedback and negotiating to secure achievable delivery dates and scope
• Diving deep with people on a technical level to improve processes, quality, and technical ability
• Coaching and mentoring developers and QAs on their soft skills and improve the team’s ability to self-manage
• Hiring and improving employee onboarding
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses within the team and supporting learning activities accordingly
• Investigating and analyzing team metrics to track team health and identify areas for improvement
• Communicating with excellence on behalf of the team, sharing challenges and accomplishments with stakeholders
• Organizing regular social activities to help keep the team engaged and improving work/life balance