Engineering Manager - JavaScript

Swivel Group
Full-timeSri Lanka

Swivel Group, headquartered in Australia is best known for building and implementing custom solutions for businesses to enable them to innovate, scale and compete at a global standard. We've been around since 2019, with a team growing beyond 160+ employees that help us challenge and innovate for our partners across the software, digital, and finance landscapes.

Our Brands : Swivel Tech, Swivel Finance, Swivel Talent, and Swivel Foundation

Role Description: Engineering Manager play vital role in SwivelTech being the technical and management authority in the engineering management team. This role reports to vice president of engineering and it is the 3rd level in the organization hierarchy. The role has direct client exposure in delivering software solutions, offering advocacy around software discipline and uplifting engineering practices and software engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage development teams, providing guidance, support, and mentorship, ensuring they follow architectural guidelines and best practices.
  • Conduct discovery sessions with client stakeholders, create resource allocation plans, generate project timelines and high-level delivery schedules, and work closely with engineering leadership team to obtain projects to SwivelTech.
  • Ability to oversee end-to-end project delivery, including aspects such as personnel management, quality assurance, architectural considerations, and overall engineering ownership of the projects.
  • Have a keen interest in defining, reviewing engineering best practices and collecting project metrics periodically and analyzing them to continuously improve the teams to be better at their engineering skills.
  • Ability to perform research and development to evaluate multiple approaches and finalize optimum results while recommending options to go ahead by considering cost, timelines and effort.
  • Offer periodic updates to the leadership team, identify and mitigate project risks from the inception to project handover. · Implement and oversee agile development processes including backlog grooming, iteration planning, daily sync-up meetings, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within scope.
  • Coordinate effective communication and collaboration between technical and non-technical client stakeholders and the engineering team, while managing the process of gathering client requirements and resolving any client issues. · Coordinate with development, quality, dev-ops, UI/UX teams to plan and prioritize project work.
  • Participate in the recruitment process by interviewing and offer hiring recommendations to engineering leadership to grow SwivelTech.
  • Conduct periodic performance reviews, set goals, and provide feedback to help team members grow in their roles.

Years of Experience: Minimum 12+ years of software development experience with 6+ years of team leading and software architecting experience. Minimum 3+ years of experience in engineering management experience is required.

Must Have Skills:

  • JavaScript Stack: 6+ Years

o TypeScript: 6+ years

o NodeJS: 5 + years

o ReactJS: 5+ years

o Next.JS: 3+ years

  • Architectural & Design Exposure: 6+ Years

o Microservices

o Serverless Architecture

  • Cloud Experience: 5+ Years

o AWS Lamba, Azure Functions

o Design and deploy micro-services and serverless based applications

o Knowledge in containerization and orchestration

  • Experience with Agile Software Development
  • Research & Development

Required Attributes:

  • Leadership and mentoring skills
  • Strong interest in learning and ability to adapt to new technologies
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills

Qualifications:

Individual should possess a bachelor's degree in computing, Information Technology, or other relevant field (physical science, mathematics)

Engagement

  • Full -time, permanent

Work model

  • Hybrid

What We Can Offer You:

  • A dynamic and supportive working environment
  • Full medical benefits
  • Training & Development
  • Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
  • Attractive remuneration

Work Culture

Swivel promotes a culture of positivity, openness, growth, collaboration, and fairness within our work environment. Individual development matters to us. We put in a sincere effort to help our team grow on professional and personal levels.

Swivel Values

Trust: A confident relationship in our staff, that would adhere to transparency and honesty in our dealings

Innovation: Initiative, collaboration, challenging the industry and continuously evolving

Premium: Top talent, going above and beyond and treating your workplace as your own business

Respect: Everyone matters and so do their ideas

Team: Be supportive, welcoming, community, family-oriented and as strong as our weakest

Our Channels

Website - https://swiveltech.io

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/swivel.group/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/swivelgroupau

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/swivelgroupau/

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