Engineering Manager

WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Their platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. WhereTo's technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

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**About The Opportunity**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Long term planning: Will work with Engineering leadership, Operations Team, and Product Team to develop organizational objectives, goals, strategies, hiring plans, and roadmaps.
- Work with Engineering Management, Operations Team, and Product Team to develop and execute domain team objectives and strategies.
- Work with engineering leadership to implement and optimize team processes
- Work with Lead Engineers to hit key performance indicators, drive accountability, and ensure quality output.
- Communicate progress, roadblocks, concerns, and successes to engineering management.
- Provide regular feedback to engineers on their team and provide input to management for formal performance reviews.
- Assist and hiring and onboarding process for engineering teams
- Help team members to develop and execute their personal growth goals.
- Work with Engineering Leadership and the Site Reliability Team to ensure compliance with security regulations and certifications.
- Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools.
- Assist team leaders in organizing and managing projects, making detailed plans that work towards the fulfillment of roadmap and company objectives.
- Assist team leaders in managing software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines.

**Experience & Qualifications**
- Strong experience delivering projects / products to a large user base.
- Either a Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in a related field, or 4+ years industry experience as a contributor and manager
- Several years experience managing either a team of people or managing a number of teams
- Experience delegating tasks to others.
- Strong time management skills.
- Should be able to communicate efficiently and effectively both verbally and written.
- Several years experience working in an agile environment.
- Experience overseeing the delivery of projects.
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira (or similar).
- Experience writing Technical Requirements Documents.
- Experience documenting technical functionality with tools such as Confluence, Notion, etc.
- Should have several years experience and be comfortable working with the following technologies: Application Languages and Technologies: NodeJS, React, RabbitMQ, SOAP and Rest based APIs, JVM based languages, Kaka and ELK Stack (Elastic Stack).
- Data Storage and Related Technologies: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and Druid / Superset
- Infrastructure and Related Technologies: Docker and Docker Compose, Mesos / Marathon / Sensu go (or similar technologies), AWS / Azure, OpenVPN, Vault, HAProxy LDAP and PGBouncer

**Work Perks - What’s in it for you**:
FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture. We understand that our people are our most valuable asset. It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder. It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.

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