Engineering Manager, NALA

• Have 8+ years of Engineering experience with at least 2 years experience managing high-performing engineers
• Empathetic leadership style and care deeply about helping others achieve their goals
• Have hands-on experience with Go
• Experience in building complex, scalable, and high-performance products, taking them from idea inception stage through to full development life cycle
• You have experience working asynchronously with global teams using tools like Slack/Teams/Jira as well as other modern communication systems
• Strong time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
• Proven results-oriented person with a strong business and technical vision
• Passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Desirable

• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Be a key technical contributor to the team by this, we mean, please expect to get your hands dirty with coding as you build high-quality products for NALA
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Help individuals reach their professional goals through coaching and regular 1:1s and mentor them on right training courses, conferences, and potential stretch projects to pave the way for career progression
• Develop a high-performing engineering team by managing performance and providing constructive feedback regularly to the team
• Build a strong team and provide support in hiring new engineers to the team
• Report status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management regularly
• The approximate role split:
• 20% Direct line management (approx 5-6 reports)
• 60% Building engineering culture/processes, managing work with other EMs and Product
• 20% Hands-on ie System design/writing code

• If successful you will be selected for our interview process which has 4 stages:
• [30mins] Interview with the Talent Team
• This is our initial touchpoint. We're keen to understand your motivations and experiences better. As a tip, reflecting on why you applied for this role and being familiar with your application responses will be beneficial
• [1 hour] Coding Challenge
• You’ll complete a pair programming exercise live, with two of our engineers
• [1.5 hour] Architecture Interview
• You’ll solve an architecture challenge with two of our Engineering Managers. As well some behavioural questions on how you manage a team
• [30 mins] Interview with the CTO or Hiring Manager
• The final interview will involve speaking with the CTO about your motivation for the role and will be a great opportunity to ask any questions you have about the business
• References
• We conduct reference checks as standard for all of our hires at NALA
• Decision
• We’ll aim to come back to you with a timely decision and feedback on your overall interview process