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Engineering Manager
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BRAINLY

Engineering Manager

BRAINLY
Kraków
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Remote

Tech stack

    English
    advanced
    Engineering Managment
    regular
    People Management
    regular

Job description

Online interview
Friendly offer
ROLE OVERVIEW 

The Brainly Engineering Management Team’s mission is to maximize the value delivered by Brainly Production Teams by building, leading, and growing a world class group of production engineers through the improvement of production engineering practices, engineer hiring, and partnership with all department leaders at Brainly where production engineers are installed.

The Engineering Manager will be a member of the Engineering Management Team.  The role will contribute through assessment of SDLC and software engineering practices within the assigned Product Teams and across the Product Department as a whole.  The Engineering Manager will also be responsible for professional development of engineers in the respective area, including building upskilling and mentoring programs.
They will cooperate closely with Delivery Managers, Product Managers and Director of Product to identify opportunities, forecast hiring needs and build efficient, motivated and happy product teams.

Read more about Brainly model and work of Engineering Management Team in the article written by Bill Salak (Brainly’s CTO).


WHAT WILL YOU DO?
  • Collaborate with team to develop process, policy, protocols, and solutions within the team and company-wide as it relates to work process and SDLC best-practices
  • Is co-responsible for engineering-skills needs assessment in the engineering practice across the assigned Product Department
  • Is co-responsible for performance review cycles for engineers
  • Is co-responsible for upskilling and mentoring programs for engineers
  • Is co-responsible for hiring needs forecasts, assessments, and logistics for Engineers within the Product Department
  • Work with the Product organization to identify opportunities for Engineering Manager initiatives
  • Collaborate with the team to make decisions regarding platform level needs, capabilities, and investments

WHAT MAKES YOU THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
  • At least 5 years of relevant management / IT / engineering experience
  • At least 2 years working with engineering teams on a daily basis, with exposure to their organizational, personal and engineering-related problems
  • Experience with hiring, sourcing, recruiting and onboarding software engineers
  • Experience with professional development support of engineers through mentoring and coaching
  • Previous accountability/responsibility for the team’s SDLC processes
  • Technical background (Software Engineering – related studies, or on-the-job equivalent experience)
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in Polish and English
  • Agile project management background (and related)
  • Interest in an engineering discipline
  • Ability to learn fast
  • Maturity and high level of self-organization

WHAT WILL BLOW OUR MINDS
  • Previous experience as a Software Engineer would be a plus
  • Hands-on experience with managing engineers and/or engineering teams
  • Previous experience working with Mobile Teams
  • Prior experience managing direct reports
 

WHAT YOU GET BY JOINING BRAINLY

  • We want to see you grow along with us – you will have 800$ per year for personal development, extra time for attending conferences and workshops, and unlimited access to an online learning platform (courses from Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Harvard ManageMentor, and many others!)
  • Health is important, which is why at Brainly, we fully cover private health & dental care packages for you and your family and provide you with a sport card (Multisport Plus in Poland, Andjoy in Spain) 
  • You will also get an access to online individual psychological consultations with professionals in English & Polish via the Mental Health Helpline
  • Flexible working hours – working requires communication, so we work within the European business hours, but we also know that life may be unpredictable, so if you need to jump out of work (doctor’s appointment, emergency, anything) – no problem!
  • Your personal concierge AskHenry will support you in your daily duties, eg. planning your dream vacation
  • We will provide you with all the necessary equipment & tools, including an additional budget for accessories which will make your remote setup even more comfortable.
  • You can join internal communities and contribute to charity, diversity and inclusion initiatives, take part in great internal events or represent Brainly at conferences or meet-ups.
 

WHAT IS BRAINLY
Brainly is the online learning platform where over 300 million students and parents go from questioning to understanding. With their smartphones, users can snap a photo to instantly solve any problem or homework question and be matched with a Brainly product such as Community Q&A, Brainly Tutor, Math Solver or Textbook Detective.

Brainly is built to provide students, parents, experts, and teachers with a collaborative platform and tools needed to succeed in any educational environment. Based in Kraków, Poland, with U.S. headquarters in New York City, Brainly apps and websites are visited by users from over 35 countries.
Backed by Prosus, Point Nine Capital, General Catalyst, Runa Capital, Learn Capital and Kulczyk Investments. Learn more about Brainly at www.brainly.com

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