Engineering Manager

Job Description:

This is a hybrid role, requiring presence in our Dublin office in Park West at least three times per week. 

 The Opportunity 

Our Recognition & Celebrations team is at the heart of how Workhuman helps our customers build and sustain cultures of gratitude. The team comprises multiple squads dedicated to designing and delivering innovative market leading solutions that enable our customers to spread a culture of recognition and celebration within their workplaces.  We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a Mobile engineering squad who are expanding and improving our Recognition & Celebrations solutions on devices. You will join a group of peers with high levels of trust and respect, collaborating closely to build the high quality software that inspires our customers.

What we can offer you:  

• An opportunity to guide influence strategy and own delivery within your product area, collaborating across engineering, architecture and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables  

• An opportunity to lead a high performing team, bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills and expertise to build great products 

• An opportunity to guide your team in driving impactful outcomes in an environment where organisational, strategic and technical ambiguity and change is common 

• An opportunity to lead and contribute to strategic & technical initiatives, driving continuous improvement across the Technology department 

• An opportunity to drive the full talent lifecycle for your functional area championing a culture of growth and development through a rich set of facilitation, coaching and mentorship skills 

 
The skills you bring: 

• Communication & Influencing : You have excellent communication skills, which you use to create a collaborative high trust environment where the expression of diverse ideas and opinions is valued 

• Thinking Strategically: You help your team understand, align and deliver to strategic goals 

• Agile mindset: You own and facilitate your squad’s software development lifecycle and agile practices, coaching individuals and teams using agile & lean values & principles while fostering continuous improvement to maximise delivery effectiveness and team health

• Leading people : You have experience in recruiting and evolving existing teams into high performing, collaborative teams with high trust, where people can do their best work 

• Problem solving : You can analyse situations, diagnose problems, identify key issues and act decisively and promptly  

• Adaptability/Resilience : You have the ability and flexibility to embrace change and work with ambiguity, supporting others through the change process 

•  Technical Accountability: You take ownership of your squad’s technical capabilities, operational excellence, and code quality, ensuring the team maintains high engineering standards

• Technical Foundation: You have 5+ years of hands-on software development or technological experience. Experience with SaaS cloud-based platforms, Android, iOS, or similar technologies would be advantageous 

Achievements: 

• You have experience leading a team of engineers, enabling them to achieve key business results through their design and software development activities in an agile development environment 

• You have confidently influenced and guided your team’s execution aligned to product strategy across six-to-twelve-month time horizons

• You have guided your team in proactively driving impactful outcomes in the face of significant organisational and technical ambiguity and change 

• You have led a product delivery team throughout the entire end to end product development life cycle 

• You cultivate an environment of accountability, trust and psychological safety where people are able to do their best work. 

• You have built world class teams and a culture for scale through hiring, developing and retaining talent. 

• You have led and contributed to cross-cutting initiatives that drive continuous improvement across Engineering. 

• You have driven the full-talent lifecycle for your team championing a culture of growth and development through extensive coaching 

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (increasing with tenure)

• VHI health & dental cover for employee + dependents

• Pension scheme (post-probation)

• Income protection & life assurance

• Employee recognition programs

• Tuition reimbursement & access to Workhuman University

• Perks: free breakfast & lunch options, catered events, wellness activities, onsite gym, travel discounts, car parking)

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset

We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.

•  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.

• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.