As an Engineering Manager, your primary responsibilities include:
Maintaining and improving current systems while designing and implementing new ones
- Uphold a high-quality standard in the backend stack in collaboration with other teams
- Deliver well-tested and scalable solutions.
- Collaborating with customers and business teams to translate requirements into technical documentation and architectural drawings
- Monitoring systems and optimizing their performance and reliability
- Mentoring and guiding junior members of the team and participating in the interviewing process for new candidates
- Proactively share and debate best practices with your peers.
- Coordinating with other departments to avoid duplicated efforts
- Developing solutions using modern technologies
- Understanding data storage engines, data processing pipelines, and APIs
- Writing well-documented, elegant, and self-testing code
- Communicating effectively with colleagues and management to ensure we're building the right thing at the right time.
What you have:
- Minimum 5+ years hands-on experience on a production system as developer.
- Solid understanding of APIs and contracts.
- Solid understanding of micro-services and domain-driven design.
- Excellent knowledge of Java, we are using Java 21.
- Intimate knowledge of the Spring Framework and the Spring ecosystem (although other similar frameworks are also fine).
- Experience with highly distributed, event-driven systems
- Experience with relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. Elasticsearch, Bigtable, Redis) databases.
- In-depth knowledge of RESTful APIs, their design and implementation.
- Working knowledge of messaging technologies, Apache Kafka is a plus.
- Experience in building and debugging complex systems.
- Some exposure to reactive programming (is welcome).
- A record of coaching & mentoring other team members.
- Willingness and aptitude to influence the technical, architectural direction of our product.
- Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes
- The ability to write concise, to the point and idiomatic code in Java.
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks and end-to-end testing.
- Excellent skills in communication and teamwork.
- Adaptable, resourceful and able to share your knowledge with the rest of the team.
- Fluency in English.
Top Skills
What We Do
Brandwatch is the world’s leading digital consumer intelligence company, allowing users to analyze and utilize conversations from across the web and social media.
It is the perfect platform to make sense of your consumers, their needs, wants, and interests.
With official access to Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr's firehose, plus data coming from 100 million other sites, our historical archive includes over a trillion conversations, with 501 million new ones added every day.
Our platform then combines queries and AI to help you parse and analyze the data that's useful to you. From there it can be chopped, sliced, and combined to find insights you can put into action.









