The lastminute.com Product Engineering team is looking for an awesome engineering manager! As an Engineering Manager, you will join us to design the best-in-class digital experience for travel and tourism. Our technology principles are “#ownit, #beyourself, #livebold, #collaboration, #techxcellence, #data-fueled, #customers-obsessed, #neverstopimproving”, if you find a match, come and work with us!
Your business acumen and laser-sharp customer focus will drive our product to the next level and achieve greater customer satisfaction.
Your agile mindset and in-depth knowledge of agile methodology will continuously seek opportunities for improvement, and you’ll help our teams to streamline the process and workflow.
People are our most valuable asset. Your management and leadership experience will play the key role in developing individuals, growing our team’s capacity, and retaining talents.
You are tech-savvy, technology excites you every day. Most importantly, you leverage the power of technology to develop a state-of-the-art product that our customers love. Technology is everywhere, you will help our company equip technology to maximize efficiency and reduce unnecessary costs.
As an engineering manager, you:
- Effective analytical skills with a product that serves various types of customers.
- Have a clear understanding of the business and the reference domain, and foster the knowledge’s growth among the team members, peers, and stakeholders.
- Ensure the delivery together with the product counterpart. Take part in from the product requirement definition to the post-launch performance monitoring.
- Work and align with other functional units (architects, SREs, QAs, and product people) to achieve the goal.
- Get involved in software designing, and challenge the team to make the optimal decision.
- Support the team to evolve the application architecture, adopt design from the solution architects, and embrace the best practices.
- Responsible for driving and tracking technical initiatives.
- Strong organization and prioritization skills along with excellent communication skills.
- Ensure the teams’ efficiency and high-quality work: enforce tech excellence, tech debt management, and regular adjustment of processes and timelines in line with continuous improvement philosophy.
- Support the team in removing impediments, and speeding up the team’s velocity.
- Communicate regularly about the plans, policies, and procedures.
- Manage both the capital expenditure and the operational expenditure.
- Staff the team based on company needs, keep a high retention rate and maintain a high level of morale.
- Mentor and develop individuals, track and review their performance.
