About the role

Engineering Manager leading multiple software development teams at FanDuel in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Driving high-quality software delivery and fostering team growth and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Manage multiple software development teams where the overall business opportunity or strategy may not yet be defined
Your team owns existing software in a segment of a business, functional area, or technology and you will own the day-to-day management of software development where you are accountable for the customer experience, project prioritization, software quality, and system maintenance
Responsible for delivering architecturally sound solutions in the absence of a highly experienced individual contributor
You help Software Engineers grow by encouraging them to contribute to cross-team technical discussions, supporting their ideas, and empowering them to make decisions
You will help make trade-offs; balancing the larger picture (e.g, resourcing, business goals, user experience, dependency impacts, efficiency, availability, etc.) against the needs of building, maintaining, refactoring, scaling, and extending features to properly support the life of the technology
You can handle most problems, decisions, and escalations providing realistic solutions to mitigate long-term risks
You will write tenets and clear documents around establishing best-practice processes
You will exhibit best behaviour and exemplify our company behaviours
Responsible for taking part in the recruitment process identifying the best candidates and providing a great candidate experience

A strong programming/technology background (preferably in Java or other backend programming languages)
People management, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
Experience leading teams delivering technology
Experience designing and delivering technology solutions for consumer-facing products required to work at scale
Ability to lead cross-functional teams to problem solve and design best practice solutions for our application stack
Ability to pressure-test solutions, spot edge cases and work with other Engineers to solve these
Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices, agile delivery methodologies, and proven track record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality
Experience supporting software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability, and performance of those systems
Delivery of technology solutions working closely with multiple stakeholders and users