Senior Engineering Manager - Desktop App

About Egnyte:

Egnyte is a product-focused company. We build and scale our flagship product: a secure content platform called Egnyte used by companies like Red Bull, IKEA, and Yamaha. It’s a large-scale system with 17,000+ customers and over 6000 instances across geo-distributed Data Centers and Cloud providers. Our customers can access and manage their data through different devices and interfaces like mobile, desktop apps, or WebUI.

For more information about our product, visit our website: www.egnyte.com.

The opportunity:

Currently, we have over 240 employees in Poland with the main office located in Poznan. We are constantly increasing the size of our Engineering team driven by growing business demands and opportunities. To support this goal, we’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager who will manage the Desktop Team responsible for developing Egnyte Desktop applications both on Windows and macOS. These apps are business-critical since they’re the main entry point to our ecosystem from the end-user perspective.

As an (Sr) Engineering Manager, you will be reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. At the same time, you will enjoy full autonomy regarding the team you manage. 

We are looking for a leader who will be working directly with 20+ engineers and hand in hand with other members of the Egnyte Leadership team. A person who makes sure engineers are working on the right things and have room to grow. A manager who will drive a technical debt roadmap aligned with the business one.

Your day-to-day at Egnyte:

• Direct cooperation with the Product team in Poland and US: 
• Gathering business context
• Working out the product development plan (prioritizing, combining technical and business part of the agenda)
• Reacting to customer feedback (patch releases, reprioritization, etc.)
• Ensuring the requirements are well-defined
• Distributed team management: 
• Direct cooperation with all local and remote team members (20+ people)
• Setting up team-specific processes, improving productivity (inc. monitoring)
• Unblocking the team
• Setting up career development plans for all team members
• Providing business context for items the team needs to deliver
• Direct involvement in recruitment processes
• Aligning the team structure to changing business demands
• Driving innovation by encouraging your team to try new tools and technologies to improve the technology stack and work environment
• Developing a high-scale product: 
• Working on tech debt agenda: ensuring the product can scale and the technology is aligned with world-class standards 
• Monitoring product usage, performance, and reliability (feature-level)
• Improving the quality of the product, adjusting the quality process if needed
• Being a member of Egnyte leadership team:
• An active member of the leadership team who can act on Egnyte global forum of leaders, driving global initiatives, promoting Egnyte culture, improving our standards, influencing the work environment.
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About you:

• Proven experience in leading SW development team (10+ people)
• Experience in working on a mid/large-scale product
• Good judgment when to step in and when to step back to give your team space to act
• Very good understanding of how to navigate teams within a long-term technical strategy aligned with a product roadmap
• Strong leadership and facilitation skills, as well as the ability to balance engineering and product-related concerns
• Solid communication skills, including good written and spoken English
• Ability to manage a distributed team

What we can offer you:

• Attractive salary package based on skillset
• Stock options
• Your own Egnyte account with lifetime access to 1 TB of cloud storage
• 4000 PLN gross conference budget per person and additional 4 training days off each year
• MyBenefit: you can choose a MultiSport card or gift cards every month
• Private medical health care
• In-house English classes