Hands-on Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the implementation of the mobile application service layer (backend for front end) for the upcoming iOS and Android travel mobile application along with the overall program’s technical governance across engineering teams, and delivery, vendor and stakeholder management for the program
Deep knowledge and experience in programming, testing, and application design for microservices using Java 17 and above or Kotlin, Spring and build automation with Gradle.
Observability – Logging, Monitoring & Alerting Strategy & Implementation using industry standard frameworks like Sentry
Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github actions, CircleCI
IOS Seasoned experience with Swift is a must have / Android Kotlin experience is must have
role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.
About the Role
We are looking for a skilled and hands-on Sr. Engineering Manager to lead on the implementation of
the mobile application service layer (backend for front end) for the upcoming iOS and Android travel
mobile application along with the overall program’s technical governance across engineering teams,
and delivery, vendor and stakeholder management of the program.
The Sr. Engineering Manager actively provides people-leadership, deep technical knowledge and
contributes to the engineering team that will design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, deploy,
document, and ensure reliability and availability for the software and systems that meet the needs
of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user tools and
applications.
Key Responsibilities
Software Engineering
· Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
· Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including
design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
· Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver
improvements to the platform
· Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the
code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
· Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or
production environments
· Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to
identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
· Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to
drive software maturity and practices
Leadership
· People Leader to software engineering team, including colleagues and contractors, dotted
line leadership to sr. engineering colleagues in team(s)
· Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
· Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring,
feedback, and metrics
· Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
· Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in
direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the
team
· Hire top talent for the team
Experience
· Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience
required; advanced degree preferred
· 5+ years of active engineering – Experienced with Kotlin / Java
· 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable
experience
· Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology
assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
· Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as
Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
· Experienced ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
· Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated,
functional, and performance)
Essential Criteria – Technical Skills
· Deep knowledge and experience in programming, testing, and application design for
microservices using Java 17 and above or Kotlin, Spring and build automation with Gradle.
· Observability – Logging, Monitoring & Alerting Strategy & Implementation using industry
standard frameworks like Sentry
· Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production
quickly and reliably with Github actions, CircleCI.