Engineering Manager

Octus is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Application Development organization within Technology. You will be responsible for overseeing a team of 6-8 software engineers focused on designing and building scalable, end-to-end software solutions. The products you and your team build provide a powerful range of data, analytics, intelligence, technology and reports for more than 30,000 leveraged finance and restructuring professionals working within the global credit markets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the successful delivery of new features and the maintenance of existing applications across a broad spectrum of technologies, including databases, backend, and frontend systems.
• Mentor and manage one or more large-scale application development teams, demonstrating a track record of effective leadership.
• Lead the design and development of scalable enterprise-scale APIs, ensuring they meet both functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, and security.
• Utilize hands-on experience to design, build, and support customer-facing enterprise-grade applications.
• Participate in business and technical design reviews, and work with the product and commercial stakeholders to ensure that we are allocating engineering resources appropriately. 
• Manage distributed teams effectively, fostering collaboration and ensuring efficient project execution.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding the team in applying design patterns and adhering to SOLID engineering principles, promoting reusability, modularity, scalability, durability, and fault-tolerant architecture.
• Manage senior stakeholders, resolve conflicting priorities, and provide visibility on established priorities, scope, resource allocation, and project timelines.
• Partner with technology leadership team members to ensure service reliability through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Develop standards and procedures to ensure quality standards are met and maintained.
• Ensure compliance with security and firmwide architecture standards. 

Requirements

• At least 3+ years of leadership experience, managing and mentoring engineering teams.
• At least 10+ years of experience with Python, C#, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, VueJS, Angular, React, Elasticsearch or equivalent technologies.
• At least 3+ years of experience with AWS/GCP/Azure, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Docker, and other technologies. 
• Strong understanding of technical design patterns such as SOLID engineering principles.
• Extensive experience in the release of enterprise-grade applications.
• Experience with Django and Laravel is a plus.
• Proven experience in data modeling and database design, with proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and scalable solutions.
• Experience with software development life cycle including but not limited to tools used to manage software development processes such as JIRA, Confluence, GitHub etc.

At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.

The salary range estimate for this position is $165,000 - $190,000.

The actual compensation will be at Octus' sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors.