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Engineering Manager

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Hybrid
Dublin
Senior level
Hybrid
Dublin
Senior level
The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to deliver business value, modernize systems, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
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Job Description:

The Opportunity    

Our Reporting Product Engineering team is at the heart of how Workhuman helps our customers build world-class cultures centred around recognition, celebration, and conversations. The team manages core functionality for the business and is dedicated to designing and delivering innovative solutions while maintaining and modernizing legacy systems that are crucial for keeping the business running.  

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers and be responsible for delivering business value while creating an engaging and inclusive engineering culture. You will join a group of peers with high levels of trust and respect, collaborating closely to build the best software we can.  

We have an established team taking on exciting challenges, using analytics and reporting to drive the impact of recognition and it’s use in the businesses of our clients. You will have the autonomy to help design, build and deploy this product, which will serve our enterprise customer base. We operate in a highly collaborative environment, where multi-disciplined individuals come together to make things happen. 
 
**This is a hybrid role requiring three days a week onsite in our Dublin office** 
 
What we can offer you: 

  • An opportunity to guide strategy and delivery within your product area, collaborating across engineering, architecture and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables.  

  • An experienced product development team to work with in achieving your goals. 

  • An opportunity to impact engineering strategy and best practices. 

  • High levels of autonomy, trust, and support to create the right environment for your success. 

  • Exciting challenges to help grow your career through new approaches and experiences. 

  • High-profile deliverables that involve a broad range of skills, including software design, development, testing and deployment to AWS Cloud infrastructure. 

  • An opportunity to guide your team in driving impactful outcomes in an environment where organisational, strategic and technical ambiguity and change is common. 

  • An opportunity to drive the full talent lifecycle for your functional area championing a culture of growth and development through a rich set of facilitation, coaching and mentorship skills. 

 

The Skills you will bring: 

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). 

  • 2+ years' experience leading high performing teams with a track record of delivering SaaS products at scale. 

  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Java (Java 17 preferred) and Spring Framework. 

  • Proficiency with AWS, containerization, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, Oracle and/or PostgreSQL, event-driven systems (Kafka), Terraform, Jenkins, and Maven for deployment automation and QA. 

  • A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle as well as engineering and agile best practices and approaches. 

  • Experience using metrics for a data-driven approach to product development and decision making. 

  • An ability to communicate and collaborate with colleagues in product, design, engineering and beyond to work with the best interests of our customers and the strategic goals of the company. 

  • Professional experience in making large complex business problems more approachable, with an ability to understand risks, dependencies and monitoring of delivery health. 

 

Achievements: 

  • You have successfully led a team to deliver features and applications projects with high impact on customers, on time, and to a high level of quality, scalability and performance. 

  • You have driven initiatives to measurably improve team ways of working, engineering process within your team and beyond. 

  • You have successfully mentored and coached engineers to grow in their careers resulting in new opportunities and career progression. 

  • You have led or coached teams to design scalable client-facing solutions, making trade-offs where required considering the constraints and long-term engineering and product strategy.  

  • You have successfully advocated for and then delivered technical debt deliverables as part of the teams’ roadmap, and adoption of emerging toolsets and techniques to enhance the developer experience. 

  • You have cultivated an environment of accountability, trust and psychological safety where people are able to do their best work 

  • Must have exposure to data engineering teams and data-driven applications. 

Benefits:
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service

  • Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependencies

  • A Pension commencing after probation period

  • Participation in Workhuman’s employee recognition programs

  • Discounted gift certificates

  • Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)

  • Income Protection

  • Life Assurance

  • Access to our Tuition Reimbursement Scheme

  • Access to Workhuman University

  • Additional ‘perks’ - Free grab and go breakfast and lunch options, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year throughout the year etc

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset

We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:
  • We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

  • In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.

  •  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.

  • There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

  • Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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