Senior Engineering Manager, Elopage
3+ days a week in office
Digital business management platform
Open for applications
Digital business management platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make growth available to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Solid people management experience, with a minimum of 5 years managing technical teams of 10+ people
- Experience working with remote teams is a plus
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails development (3+ years)
- Familiarity with high availability setup on AWS, including service management and escalation processes (SRE, DevOps, Incident & Problem Management)
- Proficient in agile software development approaches such as Kanban or SCRUM
- Strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills
- Experience in requirements analysis and maintaining technical documentation
- Previous experience in interviewing, onboarding, and coaching
- Startup environment experience
- Fluency in English
What the job involves
- Join our dynamic software engineering team as a (Senior) Software Engineering Manager (f/m/x) and become an integral part of our growth
- In this role, you will lead and coordinate multiple teams of talented software engineers, tackling challenging technical and business problems with speed and efficiency
- Strategise and execute plans to ensure project completion within deadlines
- Evaluate the feasibility of implementing new technologies or frameworks, collaborating with Technical Leads to develop technical solutions
- Collaborate with engineers and product managers to establish effective team processes, prioritise backlog, and set short-term and long-term goals
- Identify and resolve inefficiencies in the development process while promoting observability and data-driven decision-making
- Manage cross-functional teams, providing guidance and support
- Conduct regular 1:1 meetings with direct reports to understand their objectives and challenges
- Offer continuous feedback, address underperformance, and acknowledge individual strengths and contributions
- Oversee performance reviews and OKRs, acting as a problem solver to enhance team productivity and quality
- Foster development and career growth, considering skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality work by overseeing the engineering team's progress and addressing any issues
- Represent the engineering team in company and division-wide meetings
- Cultivate transparency and trust within the team
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to implement the agreed roadmap
- Identify competency gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Communicate with stakeholders to align priorities correctly
- Serve as the advocate and enforcer of team development processes
- Manage risk by identifying and mitigating potential issues in the team's projects
- Continuously improve the team's processes and practices
- Work closely with the elopage recruiting team to identify and hire exceptional candidates
- Understand the team's staffing needs and ensure successful onboarding
- Participate in and contribute to the improvement of the hiring process
- Conduct technical interviews or delegate the task to team members
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to align strategies and expectations
- Implement the agreed roadmap, reporting on progress and addressing deviations
- Continuously communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities
- Champion continuous improvement of the team's processes and practices
- Manage risks effectively, escalating as necessary
Our take
Digital businesses are faced with administrative and technical hurdles, spending at least ten hours a month on repetitive administrative tasks. elopage is setting out to eliminate these barriers to getting a business off the ground and scaling it.
The company is a one-stop payment provider and content delivery service. The SaaS platform enables digital entrepreneurs, creators, SMEs and enterprise businesses to launch and scale online businesses by selling digital products, courses, memberships, and subscriptions. Users can easily develop and host websites and sales funnels, collect payments and take care of tax payments.
Similar companies operating in the market include Floww and Valuatum. The company has, however, become the platform and payment provider of choice for tens of thousands of digital businesses. elopage is pushing forward with the expansion of its technology and team, and has a goal of enabling at least one million businesses to unlock their potential through elopage by 2025.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2021
$35.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $35.4m
Company benefits
- Paid Time Off - 30 vacation days
- Personal Training & Development, including coaching opportunities
- Responsibility and trust from day 1
- Team Events - join us on boat trips, stunt workshops, or our legendary rooftop parties
- Employee discounts at numerous companies (e.g. at the gym or in online stores)
- Pension Program with company match
- A Culture of equity and Inclusion where you are appreciated for the person you are
- Stylish offices in the heart of the city
Company values
- Think Big & Bold. Assumptions are being disrupted, conventions broken, and innovations introduced. Think big. Think bold and think contrarian: What would no one agree with us on?
- Be Curious & Drive Change. We live with a high level of curiosity and a proven hunger for knowledge, drive, change, and the urge to move forward. We never give up. We are open to change and to reimagine the possible until we get there
- Disrupt & Innovate. We are brave enough to disrupt the status quo, question conventional wisdom, keep trying, learn through failures, and always recognize growth opportunities in them. We innovate. We change for the better
- Customer Obsessed. We are intensely devoted to placing our customers first in everything we do
- As One Tribe: logging into elopage makes us feel like we’re entering our community; a safe space where we are humble and achieve great things together
Company HQ
Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Articles
Leadership
Özkan Akkilic
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Gastrokult in 1998, elopay in 2013 and elopage in 2015.
Tolga Önal
(Co-Founder)Co-founded multiple companies including CoupoBox, appmanya!, neta2p.com, Netmoda and Namotto.Lab.
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