Manager, Engineering at Nintex

About the role: 

• The Engineering Manager is responsible for the development and on-time delivery of all technical aspects of a Product (or part thereof), in accordance with the Product plan, which should meet or exceed Nintex’s quality standards.    
• Engineering Managers work in partnership with Product Managers and are responsible for maintaining the product backlog, iteration planning, communicating stakeholder requests and managing the ongoing development of team members. 

Your contribution will be:  

• Engineering 
• Ensure your team writes correct code, following Nintex standards, guidance, and training materials.
• Know the core concepts in the Service Reliability strategy and manage your team’s services to SLOs and SLIs.
• Work closely with Product Management and User Experience Designers to define required product features and behavior in detail, sufficient to create the required design, resourcing, and development plans.
• Monitor new code and designs to identify where test coverage needs adjustment. Make sure that the test requirements are met and integrated into pipelines appropriately.
• Gather and assess all the relevant input to make quality, durable decisions  
• Champion quality, making sure it is a priority in your team and across projects.
• Follow security best practices, oversee the creation of secure code, and lead teams in threat modeling.  
• Delivery 
• Understand and run your team according to agile principles and use data (velocity, burn down, etc.) to track status and improve team performance.
• Maintain unobstructed vision of the risk factors in your workload including the amount of change introduced, cross-discipline developments, cross-product integrations, or the introduction of new development tools and methodologies.
• Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize user stories in line with the product roadmap and to plan product release timelines.  
• Oversee the development of all product features in your domain in a manner that meets delivery commitments.
• You play your assigned role in the Incident Management process, including contributing where your technical and problem-solving skills apply, and also creating space for your staff to engage as the incident’s impact level requires. 
• Team Management 
• Coach, support, and enable team members in achieving personal growth and career objectives.
• Lead by example by promoting and embodying Nintex’s values.
• Conduct effective team workforce planning and forecasting.
• Create training plans collaboratively with your team members to produce the skill sets required in the relevant domains.
• Lead hiring cycles and contribute to designing the organizational hiring process. 

To be successful, we think you need:  

• Strong background in software engineering i.e. Python, C#.Net etc (8+ years)
• Experience leading and managing a team (3+ years)
• Experience with the delivery of AI products would be highly advantageous
• Experience with ML algorithms, NLP, big data analytics would also be highly advantageous
• You keep your team and the Delivery manager aware of work status and blockers on time.