Manager

The job responsibilities outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may evolve over time and be reviewed according to business needs.

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The incumbent will develop operational software components and solutions for SES to support their operations of the satellite fleet and ground station network.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES / KEY RESULT AREAS

• Lead a team of engineers.
• Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
• Run agile project management processes
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.
• Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices.
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to do technical interviews
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team
• Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team
• Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
• Improve product quality, security, and performance
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for GitLab.com are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members.

WHERE YOU WILL SPEND TIME

• Daily standups
• Unblocking the team
• One-to-ones
• Coding / Proof Of Concept
• Recruiting 
• Meeting stakeholders and peer leaders to build trust

COMPETENCIES

• Solid foundation in computer science and a wide range of experience in many aspects of software develop-ment (design patterns, application development, network authentication, security systems, microservice ar-chitecture, layout technologies, browser testing and debugging, web development)
• System view (“full-stack”) and general understanding of satellite communication, or motivation to develop an understanding of the interactions between all the disciplines involved in this area (Satellite, Gateways, Platforms, Network)
• Ability to work within an Agile/Scrum ecosystem
• Ability to work lead engineers in a global environment and mentor team members
• Willingness and proactivity to learn constantly, keep knowledge up to date with latest technologies.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Graduated in Computer Science or Software Engineering (Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree level)
• Minimum 12 years of relevant work experience in back-end software technologies with 3+ years as a people leader
• Exquisite brokering skills: regularly achieve consensus amongst departments
• Demonstrated progressive experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
• In-depth technical experience in at least one of the core languages, frameworks, or technologies used by the team – Golang , React preferred.
• Familiarity with other functional areas of your team
• Any additional experience required by the position’s specialty
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills