Engineering Manager

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Europe

Category: Partner Experience

Job Description:

About Airalo

Alo! Airalo is the worlds first eSIM store that helps people connect in over 200+ countries and regions across the globe. We are building the next digital service that revolutionizes the telecom industry. We are a travel-tech company and an equal-opportunity environment that values and executes diversity, inclusion, and equity. Our team is spread across 40+ countries and six continents. What glues us together is our commitment to changing the way you connect.

About you

We hope that you care deeply about the quality of your work, the intrinsic worth of tasks, and the success of your team. You are self-disciplined and do not require micromanagement in terms of your skillset and work ethic. You do your best to flourish as an individual every day while working hard to foster a collaborative team environment. You believe in the importance of being and staying authentic, honest, positive, and kind. You are a good interlocutor with clear and concise communication. You are able to manage multiple projects, have an analytical mind, pay keen attention to detail, and love to get your hands dirty. You are cognizant, tolerant, and welcoming of vulnerabilities and cultural differences.

About the Role

Position: Full-time / Employee

Location: Remote-first

Benefits: Employee Stock Options, Health Insurance, work-from-anywhere stipend, annual wellness & learning credits, annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination & other benefits

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help us scale, improve organizational transparency, provide career development, mentorship, and honest feedback for our smart and talented engineers. Using your varying technical backgrounds and interests, you will drive and provide general technical direction and oversight. You will keep your team efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Lead technology excellence in the company in the related domain

Extend and improve engineering best practices in the teams

Maintain and improve a collaborative environment, commit to driving projects to completion creatively

Motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team

Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members

Ensures that the team delivers high-quality products and solutions by following the best practices, e.g. testing, observability, etc.

Build a team that is collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other

Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members

Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short-term and long-term goals

Own your teams deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products

Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds

Must-haves:

Minimum 5 years of technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions, drive technical decisions and perform code reviews

Minimum 2 years of experience in leading the team and guiding them through their career development

Experience in guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work

Expertise in building and refactoring of distributed systems

Expertise in event-driven architecture and Messaging systems: Queue, Pub/Sub, etc.

Good knowledge of SQL/NoSQL

Good knowledge in AWS services (EC2, Lambda, SQS, Security, Aurora, DynamoDB)

Experience with Docker

Knowledge and experience about Unit Test/Feature Test/Mocking

Good communication skills and fluency in English

Good to haves:

Expert knowledge of PaaS/ SaaS, SOA, Microservices, AWS

Prior work experience in telecommunications and network infrastructure

Knowledge of eSIM and GSMA related technologies and services

If you are interested in this position, please apply via the link.

We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this opportunity with Airalo.