Engineering Manager (Reports team)

About the job

No matter which apps you use, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen Testlio’s work in action. We test apps for top brands like the NBA, Paramount+, Netflix, Microsoft, SAP, and Amazon, as well as the most popular social networks and innovative growth companies. Our testing management platform, a global network of expert testers, and client services power mobile app and software testing at any scale, in any location, in any language, and on any device. Billions of people have a better digital experience thanks to Testlio.

As an Engineering Manager of Reports team you will work closely with your team to establish a future architectural vision and implement solution concepts for modular data products that are customizable and contextual. In this role, you will also be responsible for advancing our existing reports module, ensuring that it is developed in a scalable, performant and extendable approach – you value fast time to market and good engineering practices to deliver solutions. Working closely with Product Manager, Data Analytics and engineers you will create a recommendation engine along with data architecture that enables data driven engineering cultures. You enjoy building powerful data visualizations and great user experience that make you proud.

Why you will love this job?

• Data is the new oil – you love working with data and enable access to data through great interactive data visualizations.
• Data-driven engineering – powerful and contextual insights unlock data points that cultivate objective decisions.
• Be your own customer – we leverage Testlio to build our platform with quality releases and processes. You dog food your releases and be the best customer of your own product.

Why you will love being a part of Testlio?

• A true sense of belonging: the TestLion Pride is a global community of like-minded people who live Testlio’s six values every day. We’re deliberate about building our community with virtual events and activities that keep us connected across the globe.
• Enable human possibilities: your work at Testlio has a larger purpose. As a TestLion you will not only help our customers create well-built digital experiences for their users, but also create opportunities for Testlio's freelance network, and support social impact programs like Ignite.
• Freedom to roam: Testlio is a global company that embraces flexibility. You'll have room to work wherever within your region's main time zones. We also want to make sure you can take time off from work to rest. We honor national holidays in your home nation, and provide a generous number of days off, including personal wellness days.

What would your day look like?

• Manage and lead a team of software engineers (normally 2-4 people), including Data Analyst-Engineer.
• Act as Hiring Manager when hiring new engineers to your team.
• Own your team’s delivery processes – we follow Scrum, and you are master of ceremonies.
• Own team’s and individual performance indicators – drive data driven engineering culture.
• Own software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices – pushing continuous improvements to improve ease of development and time to market.
• Create a healthy working culture, leading by example, mentoring and coaching.
• Provide technical excellence in architecture, code and the whole development process, implement necessary changes and toolings to drive maturity.
• Work closely with Design team and Product Manager to unlock future work by providing technical solution designs.
• Own and drive 30-50% of technical team investments, like refactoring, app performance, quality, security patching and other.
• Own teams documentation space – follow architectural C4Model concept, Swagger or other tools and frameworks that enable readability, debuggability, maintainability.
• Advance AI/ML experiences – working with data scientists and frameworks to make embed latest technologies into our solution domains.
• Act as an Incident Manager during incidents, manage support process and On Calls routines.
• Remain hands on. While leading and managing, you will jump into architecting, problem solving, and coding to help advance key initiatives.

What do you need to succeed?

• Strong teamwork skills & people leading experience in distributed settings.
• Good knowledge and proven excellence in Software Engineering discipline.
• Understanding of and being able to envision a good software architecture – event driven architecture and leveraging Kafka or RabbitMQ is a strong plus.
• Experience in building internal and public APIs, knowledge of different backend and frontend technologies, like Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, Relay, Python and/or other.
• Previous experience participating in hiring and team building activities.
• Knowledge of OWASP10 and other software security concerns is an asset and good practices to have.
• Full English professional proficiency.
• Previous experience building AI/ML experiences is a strong plus.
• Previous experience with AWS and its tools is a strong plus.

You can find more information and already get some insights about our Platform team here.

Diversity and Inclusion

Testlio is a female-founded, equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and cultures.