Our IT-Team is focusing on continious improvments of our smava ecosystem for personal credit solutions. We continuously develop our online loan comparison platform and implement new product features. The whole application system consists of more than 50 individual services. Now we are looking for a Director Engineering (m/f) who will make interaction with Product Owner and other stakeholders smooth and efficient and push the right balance of ambitious yet realistic planning for software projects and initiatives.
“smava is coming together as a technology-driven company, while managing exponential growth. 2018 is the year you do not want to miss out in order to be active part of the transformation." (David, CTO)
Our tech stack:
- Java 8
- Spring (e.g. Boot & Cloud Netflix)
- Web technologies
- JavaScript (React & Node)
- PostgreSQL, Dynamo DB, Redis
- Hybrid Cloud Technologies
Your daily business:
- Ensure a smooth and efficient execution of software development (joyful efficiency, operational excellence) through supporting and challenging Technical Product Owners (local and remote) who are leading each of the software development teams
- Reach smooth interaction with Product Owner and other stakeholders, backlog definition, backlog grooming, execution in sprints, good integration of QA and automated testing into the development process, software integration and delivery
- Keep a strong focus on software quality, including unit test coverage, logging and monitoring
- Ensure a healthy and sustainable balance between new features, software refactoring and software architecture improvements
- Challenge software hacking as much as over engineering
- Help to define the quarterly balance between business (product) related milestones and technical milestones (code quality, re-architecture or prototyping of new technologies)
- Monitor and support the Technical Product Owners and engineering teams towards the execution of the quarterly milestones. Help Technical Product Owners sign-off (or push back, e.g. because undefined) backlog
- Perform Bi-weekly monitoring (control execution) and monthly reporting on the progress of engineering teams towards committed quarterly goals, for each product initiative and for the tech-driven milestones
- Be a good line manager for the Technical Product Owners, bringing them personal and professional growth, setting stimulating business goals and taking care of their careers in smava through one2one and performance evaluation meetings every 6 months
To get things done you will need:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering
- Know-how in software engineering concepts such Java Spring, React, microservices or testing and automation in the continuous delivery space
- At least six years of working experience with comparable technologies to our software stack.
- Min. 4 years of hands-on experience in leading, building and coaching medium-sized engineering organisations inside web product based companies
- Good understanding of processes and practices related to continuous improvement & agile development
- Ensure efficient interaction between Product Management and Tech teams.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to drive future technology that changes the financial industry
- Great prospects for a personal and professional growth
- A changing organization which knows what needs to be improved
- Smart colleagues from all around the globe (40 nationalities)
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support
- Signing bonus
- Relocation bonus (in case you are relocating to Berlin)
- Flexible working hours
- Employer-funded pension
- Paid education (e. g. trainings, workshops, conferences)
- Language courses
- Subsidized Lunch offer (smunch.co) and subsidized public transport ticket (VBB Umweltkarte)
Did we get your attention? Then we are looking forward receiving your application including:
- CV, salary expectations and earliest starting date addressed to Martin Firlus
- In case you are not an EU citizen, we also need a copy of your academic degree & valid passport
- If you already have a Blue Card, Visa or Work Permit, please let us know
Note that it will be difficult to proceed with your application without the documents mentioned above. Please tell us, where you first found our job advertisement.
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