Backend Engineering Manager

Centric Software; Tarragona; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 68.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading software technology company is seeking a Backend Engineering Manager to lead their backend team. The role involves managing team operations, ensuring smooth workflows, and collaborating with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have extensive software engineering experience, specifically in Python, and excel in people management. The position offers full-time remote work along with competitive benefits including health insurance and a training budget.

Servicios

100% remote work

Training and conference budget

Health insurance

Life insurance

Private pension plan

Formación

• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, preferably with Python.
• 3+ years of experience working as a team manager.
• Ability to manage skilled software engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Manage the backend team and maintain team morale.
• Identify and solve blockings within the team.
• Communicate with stakeholders effectively.

Conocimientos

Team management

Communication in English

Empathy and kindness

Motivational skills

Software engineering foundations

People skills

Educación

Degree in software engineering or equivalent experience

Herramientas

Python

AWS

Django

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Centric Market Intelligence (formerly StyleSage), is an AI-driven competitive assortment benchmarking and market trend insights solution for fashion, beauty, and home goods brands and retailers.

We are a key innovation partner for iconic and emerging brands across the world.

Our platform is able to analyze the info of more than 1.000 retailers, processing data from more than 600.000 brands, tracking 100’s of millions of products!

You will be the Engineering Manager of the Backend Team, where you will guide the engineers in charge of the processes and tools to keep that pipeline of data in excellent shape, fresh, and available.

The team uses the latest and best open-source technologies out there. Our massive amount of data lives in PostgreSQL databases, and we know how to take good care and make the most of them. We code in Python (and we love it, you may want to come to the PyCon Spain conference with us!). We are a cloud-native company, so our code runs in AWS, and we provision that infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible code. We keep an eye on all this using observability tools like Grafana, Influx, and Telegraf.

What You'll Do

• Team management (Follow up on tasks, 1 : 1s, talent retention). Keep the backend engineers happy, and make their careers grow at Centric Software.
• Work closely in tandem with the technical lead of the backend team to :
• Identify, solve, and prevent blockings and dependencies within the team and with other teams.
• Build roadmaps, set priorities, balance team capacity, and mix short-term productivity with long-term maintainability.
• Work with Product, other team’s Tech Leads, and the CTO to understand the company’s needs and help with estimations and capacity planning.
• Be the “face” of the backend team. Communicate with stakeholders, help or push back when needed.
• You take the occasional coding task to keep your skills in shape.

Your Skills

You can communicate in English proficiently with both technical and non-technical peers.

You are a “People first” person. You care deeply about the people in your team and look out for them in all situations.

You value a work environment where empathy and kindness are the baseline of relationships.

You facilitate and empower the career growth of those you manage.

Good motivational skills. You know how to make your team deliver while understanding the complexity of their tasks and the degree of uncertainty they can have.

Solid software engineering foundations. You have a degree in software engineering or equivalent knowledge and experience.

5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, preferably with Python, Django, and, ideally, AWS, before becoming an Engineering manager.

3+ years of experience working as a team manager (Tech / Team Lead or Engineering Manager). Providing feedback, hiring, and having 1 : 1 meetings is something that comes naturally to you.

You can manage very skilled and senior software engineers.

Good people skills. You can get along nicely with all kinds of personalities. You listen to others and are capable of changing your mind if arguments contrary to your ideas are provided. You prioritize finding a solution over winning arguments. You convince or get convinced.

What We Offer

100% remote work

Training and conference budget

Health insurance

Life insurance

Private pension plan

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information. Seniority level

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type Full-time

Job function

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries Software Development

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