- Type of contract: FTE
- Working model: Hybrid (3xweek at the office in Kraków)
Our client, UK based, global innovative company in the area of utility engineering, is expanding their IT structures in a new office in Kraków. Their aim is to build 3 mobile teams working on their super smart home app which is at the forefront of IoT and customer experience. They are proud of what we have built so far, which includes an App Store and Google Play rating of 4.5 and 4.3 stars respectively. The app has more than 1 million active users worldwide and the IoT platform has over 4 million connected machines. Their huge ambition is to grow this platform and to support more machines from more categories the challenge is significant.
About the role
We are on the lookout for Engineering Managers to lead teams of mobile app engineers. Communication, collaboration, self-evaluation and a desire to improve are second nature to you, and you value good software engineering practices. You understand the need to deliver quality, alongside the need to deliver efficiently.
What you’ll be doing:
- Working with your team to contribute features and improvements to the app, ensuring they are robust, scalable and covered by tests
- Conducting 1:1s with your team members, setting objectives that develop them towards their career goals, and evaluating their performance
- Instilling a test-first attitude in our developers; helping our test engineers to write better code
- Helping define and execute on a test strategy that ensures we deliver quality software
- Working with your Engineering Manager peers to ensure teams are collaborating effectively and that the right choices are made
- Working with everyone in the wider team: TPOs, Scrum Masters, cloud developers, UX/UI designers and embedded software engineers
- Working with scrum masters on team development and monitoring metrics to assess progress
- Working with TPOs and other stakeholders to assess risks and dependencies to aid decision making
- Identifying new technologies and tools to help continually improve standards
About you
- You’re interested in how technology can improve the environments people live in
- You’re a collaborative person that believes in the Agile principles and how they can help empowered teams deliver the best software
- You’ve contributed to mobile applications that have delighted their users, as a developer or test engineer
- You’re passionate about learning new things and sharing those things with others
- You know how to get the best work out of people, understanding the part played by motivations and working environment
- You get satisfaction from solving real-world problems with well-crafted software
Benefits
- annual bonus
- private healthcare
- multicafeteria platform
- lunch subsidiary
- internal pension system
- life insurance