We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who expects more from their career. It’s a chance to extend and improve Mindera’s Software Engineering Department. It’s an opportunity to work with a market-leading business to explore new opportunities for us and influence global retailers.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and inspiring multiple engineering teams to deliver high-quality, innovative software products that drive business growth. You will set the technical direction, build high-performing teams, and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
Your Role & Responsibilities
In the capacity of Senior Engineering Manager, you will oversee multiple engineering teams, promoting a culture of technical excellence, agility, and innovation.
Your responsibilities will encompass:
• Defining & Leading the Engineering Vision – Spearhead the technical strategy, drive platform evolution, and modernize our software ecosystem. Shape the adoption of cloud technologies, API-first development, automation, and the maturation of DevOps practices.
• Owning Sub-Domain Level OKRs – Collaborate closely with Product, Design, UX, and Commercial teams to co-manage objectives, ensuring that engineering initiatives are aligned with overarching business goals.
• Managing High-Performing Global Teams – Lead teams across India, the UK, and the US, ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-quality software solutions within an agile framework.
• Hiring & Talent Development – Cultivate, mentor, and develop premier engineering talent, nurturing a culture of learning, inclusion, and career advancement.
• Technical Excellence & Architecture Alignment – Partner with Architects and Principal Engineers to establish best practices in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native design, API strategy, and front-end development.
• Driving Automation & DevOps Best Practices – Advocate for CI/CD pipelines, cloud transformation, and platform engineering principles, ensuring robust observability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Engineering Governance & Innovation – Continuously enhance engineering processes, improve team productivity, and reduce technical debt, promoting a shift-left approach and industry-leading software development methodologies.
• Stakeholder Collaboration – Collaborate with Product, UX, and business leaders to influence platform roadmaps, balancing the priorities of speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Hands-On Leadership – Engage closely with technological aspects, providing technical mentorship, contributing to architectural decisions, and ensuring the adherence to engineering best practices.
What You’ll Bring
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role overseeing global teams.
• Demonstrable experience as an Engineering Manager (senior), Lead Engineer, or Technical Manager, handling complex engineering projects.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture (GCP & Azure), microservices, API design, and scalable platform engineering.
• Comprehensive knowledge and practical experience with .NET, Python, Spark, Git (GitLab), Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud development (GCP & Azure).
• Familiarity with React.js.
• Profound understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and best practices in cloud security.
• Proven ability to establish engineering strategies, enhance processes, and exhibit high-velocity agile execution.
• Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and managing global teams across various time zones.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making abilities, collaborating cross-functionally with PMs, UX, and Business Leaders.
• A commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and remaining at the forefront of technological advancements.
- Fun, happy and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self organisation;
- Work with large scale systems powering global businesses;
- Competitive salary and benefits.
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.
Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
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What We Do
At Mindera we craft software with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world
Our offices are located in: Portugal | UK | USA | India | Romania | Brazil
