Eshipz.com - Engineering Manager

Job Description :

The Engineering Manager leads a team of engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions while fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development planning.

- Conduct regular 1 : 1s, performance reviews, and build growth paths for team members.

- Foster a supportive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.

- Partner with recruiting to attract, interview, and hire top engineering talent.

- Collaborate with tech leads and architects to guide system design, implementation, and technical decision-making.

- Ensure best practices in code quality, testing, architecture, reliability, and security.

- Provide technical context and remove blockers during development cycles.

- Balance short-term execution with long-term architectural health.

- Drive accountability for technical initiatives, infrastructure improvements, and adoption of new technologies.

- Plan, prioritize, and coordinate engineering work in alignment with product and business goals.

- Manage sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and delivery timelines.

- Monitor KPIs such as velocity, reliability, performance, and quality metrics.

- Partner with Product Managers to refine roadmaps, define requirements, and align priorities.

- Work closely with Design, QA, DevOps, Security, and Analytics teams.

- Implement and optimize engineering processes (Agile, Scrum, Kanban).

- Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives, tooling upgrades, and workflow enhancements.

- Champion engineering standards, documentation, and automation.

- Identify and mitigate project risks, dependencies, and technical debt.

Technical Skills & Expertise :

- Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in modern programming languages such as : Java, C#, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript

- Proficiency in web and cloud architectures, including microservices, RESTful APIs, and serverless architectures.

- Experience with front-end frameworks : React, Angular, or Vue.js (preferred).

- Familiarity with back-end frameworks : .NET Core, Node.js, Spring Boot, or Django.

- Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms : AWS, Azure, GCP.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Strong understanding of databases : relational (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra).

- Knowledge of unit testing, integration testing, automated testing frameworks, and code quality tools.

- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and logging : Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Cloud Monitoring.

- Exposure to security best practices, authentication/authorization frameworks, and encryption standards.