Engineering Manager – Ecommerce

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead the Ecommerce team within Phorest’s Consumer sector, taking responsibility for its overall health, productivity, and impact.

• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Leads, and stakeholders to shape the overarching consumer strategy.

• Balance the introduction of new capabilities with technical maintenance during each development cycle.

• Identify bottlenecks within the team, enhance processes, and apply best practices in software delivery.

• Monitor progress across teams to ensure timely and quality releases of capabilities.

• Advocate for observability, set SLOs, implement monitoring, and proactively resolve reliability issues.

• Establish quality processes, uphold code quality, define automated testing strategies, and guarantee test coverage.

• Actively contribute to team efforts, review code, and assist in the design and implementation of intricate distributed systems.

• Provide guidance on technical solutions that promote scalability, resilience, and reliability.

• Manage a scrum team through one-on-one meetings, coaching, feedback, performance evaluations, and career development.

• Participate in Product and Engineering management meetings to influence decisions across the group.

• Report on progress, strategy, and challenges to the Head of Engineering of the Consumer group.

• Enhance Phorest’s engineering brand through speaking engagements and blog contributions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of proven impact in a comparable leadership position with hands-on experience in people management.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related area.

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in object-oriented software design, primarily using Java.

• Capability to lead team strategy, roadmaps, objectives, and sustainable delivery.

• Strong coaching skills and the ability to clearly communicate expectations and provide feedback.

• Established relationships with product counterparts and external stakeholders.

• Strategic thinker with the ability to articulate ideas in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Previous hands-on development experience with complex distributed systems.

• Experience in working with and managing Agile teams.

• Proven track record of enhancing the complete development process.

• Experience in mentoring engineers and supporting their career advancement.

• Strong focus on quality, efficiency, value delivery, and waste reduction.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private healthcare.

• 2 Wellness Days.

• Employee assistance program.

• Free online GP service.

• Competitive Compensation.

• Employee Share Purchase Scheme.

• Pension.

• Life Assurance.

• Income Protection.

• Bike to work scheme.

• Tax saver transport tickets.

• 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss, and Menopause.

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.

• Great learning environment and extensive development opportunities.

• Development programs.

• Access to online resources including LinkedIn Learning.

• 3 moving days.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Flexi-time.

• Working from home.

• Remote work.