Senior Engineering Manager

Posted Jun 2

As the team’s Sr. Engineering Manager you will play a critical role in helping that team deliver on the promise of ML, Data Engineering, and Core Services to the entire suite of products at Tempo. You will work directly with our talented engineering, product management, QA, SRE and UI/UX teams. As an engineering manager you will work with the team to manage their priorities, workloads, make trade-off decisions, and ensure that the work is completed in a high quality fashion to deliver a next shippable product increment. 

We expect you to learn from us and us to learn from you.

In order to be successful in this position, you will need to have strong communication skills, ability to express thoughts clearly and concisely; fanatical attention to detail; analytical mindset, and strong project and people management skills. We offer challenging work, a friendly, collaborative environment and opportunities to create best in class products with a strong team.

What You'll Do - 

  • Leading and managing one or more software development teams. including but not limited to team management, goal setting, monitoring and control, risk analysis and management
  • Mentoring and professional development of the team’s members
  • Coordination of the efforts across multiple teams/sub-teams
  • Process management and continuous improvement 
  • Maintaining high standards of the Company culture

Who You Are - 

  • At least 10 years of experience in Software Development
  • 3+ years managing Software Development teams
  • Proven working experience in managing software development teams
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle
  • Experience of managing and leading Agile projects
  • Strong technical knowledge
  • Technical literacy, broad awareness of the major trends in the IT industry, Attention to detail, responsibility and autonomy
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Curious nature and a drive to solve problems collaboratively
  • Strong Data Science and Machine Learning background

WOULD BE A PLUS -

  • Technical background and understanding of web application architectures
  • Strong Data Science and Machine Learning background
  • Knowledge and experience of using Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) products
  • A proven track record of building teams and optimizing processes

What's In It For You (Org-wide) -

  • Remote First work environment 
  1. If you’re close to one of our 3 Hubs: Boston, Montreal, or Reykjavik, feel free to use the space and catch up with the local team(s) 
  • Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!!
  • Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan.
  • Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more.
  • Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work.
  • An opportunity to have a real impact on our business.
  • A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual).
  • Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices
  • Employee referral program
  • And so much more!!

Note: As our hiring teams are global, please submit your resume in English only

About the company - 

At Tempo we’re on a mission to help teams build better, together. We are creators of top-selling Atlassian Marketplace apps, supporting more than 29,000 customers, including a third of the Fortune 500 companies, and working with hundreds of Solutions Partners globally. Our solutions help customers orchestrate creation and delivery, so their teams can focus and optimize around their highest priorities. In 2020 and in 2021 we were named Top Atlassian Vendor and we continue to be one of the highest ranked and most heavily used solutions out there.

Our product suite has grown from our popular time-tracking solution, which launched in Iceland in 2009, to resource & capacity planning, project cost tracking, project & program management, and strategic roadmapping. In 2021, Tempo acquired Roadmunk, a roadmapping solution popular with product management teams, and ALM Works, creators of the Structure for Jira suite that delights project and program managers around the world. At the beginning of 2023 Tempo expanded its SPM suite to include LiquidPlanner’s capacity planning platform and Old Street Solutions (maker of Custom Charts).

We envision a world where everyone inside an organization works in harmony on the most impactful opportunities aligned with their mission. Come join us as we continuously innovate our award-winning products, create new solutions, and expand to new ecosystems. Are you ready to unlock the joy of building with us.