Engineering Manager

What you'll be doing: People Leadership: Inspire and motivate multiple cross-functional teams Directly manage engineers Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team Foster a great culture that innovates, works together as a team, partners with other Booking.com teams and roles, and celebrates unified success Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work Technology, Craft & Delivery: Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department Architecture & Product Strategy: Define, shape and deliver the roadmap Build new products, processes and operational plans Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features Drive innovation in the team Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment What you'll bring: Strong people management skills and experience Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates respect through actions, not the title 6+ years of experience in software development At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment Strong coding & system design skills with the ability to get hands-on with your team if needed Experience with Java, Kafka, Cassandra and/or MySQL is a plus Deep experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing paradigms Experience in working on products with a large customer base and company-wide impact Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic and security concerns Past experience with Payments or FinTech and working in a regulated environment is a plus Strong analytical skills and data-driven mindset