Engineering Manager

### Who you are

• Experienced People Leader: You have a proven track record (3+ years) as a Technical Manager or Team Lead. You know how to manage performance, foster career growth, and maintain team velocity
• Empathetic Navigator: You understand that leading a team is about clearing roadblocks and building an environment where diverse perspectives thrive
• Analytical Strategist: You can look at complex infrastructure challenges and guide your team toward logical, scalable solutions
• Operational Excellence: You are comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and understand the requirements of a private cloud environment
• Mobile Development Background: While your leadership skills are the priority, experience with Android (Gradle/Kotlin) or iOS (Xcode/Swift) ecosystems is a significant plus
• Deep CI/CD Knowledge: Hands-on history with GitLab CI, Jenkins, Temporal
• Systems Proficiency: An understanding of Linux systems administration (process management and resource allocation)

### What the job involves

• We are looking for a Manager for our In-Person-Payments Tooling team
• The team is based in Chicago, you will be guiding the vision and execution for the CI/CD Engineering aspect ensuring smooth and efficient software development and deployment processes
• As a Team Lead, your primary focus is to create and enable a high performing platform engineering team
• You will oversee the development of tools and applications that manage the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for our Android and iOS applications
• You will ensure your team successfully collaborates with the infrastructure teams, handling Kubernetes clusters to provide an elevated SDLC experience for the entire organization
• You will also stay close to your users and deliver the most impactful initiatives for their developer experience
• Technical Leadership: Lead a team of DevOps and Infrastructure Engineers in designing and implementing high-performance CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Gradle, KMP, and Develocity
• Strategic Oversight: Define the roadmap for automating build processes, caching optimizations, and security scanning to ensure software deployment remains smooth and efficient
• Mentorship & Growth: Actively coach engineers in troubleshooting complex build failures and developing an "automation-first" mindset
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact between mobile developers and infrastructure teams to ensure tooling health, monitoring, and alerting are seamlessly integrated
• Process Excellence: Champion quality-focused initiatives, ensuring the CI/CD pipeline remains the organization's first line of defense for code stability

### The application process

• Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role

### Benefits

• Global exchange program
• Weekly happy hour
• Delicious healthy lunches
• Phantom share package
• Yearly trip to Amsterdam
• Paid holidays
• Work from home opportunities