Hybrid Engineering Manager - Payments at Booking Holdings

Overview

B.responsible

You will primarily manage, coach and develop an engineering team, ensuring the development of both (the individual and team as a whole) are in line with organisational objectives and direction. You will be responsible for timely delivery of new features and with good quality. In addition to this, you will confer with leaders, and key stakeholders determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, scalability and time-to-market for new and existing products. 

People Leadership

• Inspire and motivate multiple cross functional product teams
• Directly manage Engineers in multiple teams
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Technical Incident Management
• Building software applications
• Continuous Quality and Process Improvement

Architecture & Product Strategy

• Thought partner for Product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap
• Architectural Guidance
• Drive innovation in own team

B.Skilled

• At least 3 years of experience leading and managing  a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
• You have worked with large scale distributed systems, highly available APIs, and products that impact millions of customers.
• Experience with cloud technologies is a must
• Experience with AWS is a plus
• Strong people management skills and experience dealing with complex people issues
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field or 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent
• Strong business and technical vision
• You own your systems end-to-end and are comfortable performing incident management. 
• A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of developing and shipping software
• Having experience with Docker, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Protobuf, Kafka, and GraphQL is a plus.
• Proactive, flexible and capable of working independently as well as working in a team
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful
• Solution oriented and result driven