Engineering Manager

A.P. Moller - Maersk; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global shipping company in Sweden is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a talented team of engineers. This role emphasizes strong technical leadership and people management within an agile and collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in engineering and expertise in backend development, particularly with C# and cloud technologies. Join us to foster a culture of technical excellence and make a significant impact in our organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in engineering, with a minimum of 3 years managing a team.
• Strong expertise in backend development, especially with C# and .NET platform.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a squad of engineers delivering complex features.
• Drive technical design discussions and manage backlog effectively.
• Implement best practices in provisioning and maintenance of environments.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Agile methodologies

C#

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jira

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Engineering Manager to lead a talented team of engineers. This is a pivotal role that combines strong technical leadership with a passion for people management. You will be instrumental in driving the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of existing enterprise-grade systems, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration within an agile and DevSecOps environment. This role contributes both within and across product teams, working closely with Engineering, Product Owners, Designers, and other key roles within Technology Teams.

What You'll Contribute (As a People Leader)

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead and Inspire: Directly lead and manage a squad of highly talented and globally distributed Engineers with varying degrees of experience, with direct responsibility for delivering complex features.
• Provide Technical Vision: While directly managing individuals, this is a highly technical role where you will be expected to provide technical leadership both for your immediate team and more broadly across the organization.
• Nurture Talent: Be responsible for performance management, coaching, and mentoring team members to ensure their effectiveness, development, and the maintenance of a high-performing team.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with teams across multiple sites and geographies as a collaborator and partner. You will gain respect and trust from a technical perspective with your immediate team and other teams, including development, support, solution sales, operations, and product management, demonstrating an ability to influence at all levels of the organization and across multiple domains without direct authority.
• Facilitate Technical Decisions: Drive and manage complex technical design discussions across various stakeholders to their logical closure.
• Implement Best Practices: Research, design, and implement industry best practices regarding provisioning, maintaining, and monitoring cloud/hybrid/on-prem environments.
• Influence Product Strategy: Work with product management and other teams to question, provide constructive pushback when required, and ultimately establish new requirements. Play a lead role in the prioritization, design, and implementation of features to deliver on the broader vision for our platforms.
• Strategic Planning & Reporting: Scope and author plans for complex, large features that may span across multiple teams and be delivered in multiple release cycles. Track and report project and feature status at the executive level as well as to release management.
• Backlog Management: Triage and managing both feature and defect backlogs. This includes understanding complex issues from customers and other teams, analyzing logs and diagnostic information, asking clarifying questions, and directing issues to the engineers best suited to address them.
• Embrace Service Ownership: Operate with a service ownership mindset, working in a DevOps model where the development team is responsible for all automation, versioning, quality, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and maintenance of services being built.
• Ensure Code Quality: Oversee the writing of well-documented, highly performant, reliable, and maintainable production-grade code.
• Platform Evaluation: Evaluate the stability, compatibility, scalability, interoperability, and performance of the platform.
• Adaptability: Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities and direction may change rapidly as customer requirements and market direction evolve.
• Thought Leadership: Demonstrate technical expertise through publications, presentations, white papers, and event participation across the organization.
  
  

Who You Are

You are a highly important “T-Shaped” leader, demonstrating both depth and breadth across key engineering competencies, including: Systems Design and Architecture, Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Security, Analytics, and Lifecycle Management. You successfully collaborate with experts from other subject domains. You possess a "whatever it takes" attitude, a passion for growing people and teams, a love for building elegant software, and strong opinions on what constitutes “good code” and “bad code.”

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience in engineering, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in managing a team.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Technical Proficiency: Fully hands-on experience in Low-Level Design, Development, Design Patterns, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, scalability, and Microservices.
• Programming Skills: Excellent design and programming skills, primarily in backend development, focusing on enterprise server solutions using C# and the .NET platform (e.g., .NET Core, ASP.NET Core).
• Database Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• API Development: In-depth understanding of API design and implementation, including using and developing Web services/RESTful APIs using JAX-RS and JSON.
• Cloud & Container Technologies: Experience with Data stores such as MongoDB, Containers, and Cloud-native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Messaging Infrastructure: Experience with any messaging infrastructure (e.g., Apache/Confluent Kafka, Kafka with Zookeeper, Artemis Active MQ, or Rabbit MQ).
• DevOps Tooling: Proficient in using source code management systems like Git and build tools like Maven and Gradle. Fluent in using CI/CD tools such as Jira, Git, GitHub, and Jenkins.
• Testing & Quality Tools: Good experience with unit test frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and code coverage tools like SonarQube/JaCoCo.
• Agile Methodologies: Strong understanding of the fundamentals of agile methodologies and experience implementing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Cloud Solutions: Experience working with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP) and building cloud-native solutions.
• Open Source: Experience with the use of open-source packages for common capabilities.
• Documentation: Strong documentation skills needed, with experience in Swagger and/or Markdown.
  
  

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