Senior/Engineering Manager
PT Bukalapak.com, Indonesia
Job Description
Bukalapak is currently working remotely due to COVID-19. So, this role doesn’t require you to move at the time being.
As an Engineering Manager, your primary role is in being a servant leader that coach and help our engineering talents grow in skill, experience, and productivity, and help guide them towards career paths that align with their passion and life goals. We believe finding a great match between what the talent is passionate about and the opportunity that the company provides would result in incredible productivity multipliers for both the talent and the company, so you also need to be an attentive individual that cares a lot about the aspirations and growth of the engineers that you manage.
One particular note about this role, unlike traditional Engineering Manager/Development Manager role elsewhere in Indonesia, you would not be expected to lead an engineering team in deciding and executing their regular development tasks. Engineering at Bukalapak is a very decentralized process that empowers our engineers and their respective squads to self-organize and made their own decisions about tasks executions. Rather, you will focus on being a servant leader that can support and assist the engineers in their productivity and career path.
Within this role, you will work together with other Engineering Managers in developing and implementing the career plans, guidelines, and engineering standards at Bukalapak. You will also be actively involved in engineering recruitment, ensuring that we uphold our strict standards in hiring so that talents with the right culture and passion join our family and contribute in a productive manner. Naturally, you need to build a strong prior experience in being a Software Engineer or Engineering Coach to be able to guide other engineers in their career path with Bukalapak.
- Coach and manage the engineering talents at Bukalapak
- Be a positive driving force behind your Tribe in improving its engineering productivity and focusing their engineering talents in maximizing their impact to the Tribe
- Conduct regular one-on-one sessions with your engineers in order to capture their needs, passion, aspirations, and possible issues, and took active steps to assist them in achieving their best possible productivity
- Work with Squad Leads (i.e. Product Managers and Software Architects) to sense the health and rhythm of the Squad, and take proactive steps to capture and resolve issues impacting the squad's productivity as early as possible
- Provide advice related to career growth and planning for individual engineers in Bukalapak, including how the engineers can grow into the next level according to the pace that they feel comfortable with
Requirements
What you need to have (i.e., Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent professional experience in software development
- Humble culture, zero egos, and excellent collaborative spirit. We are all here to learn together and grow together as a team
- Eagerness to learn, eagerness to help, eagerness to share
- Strong experience in engineering, including firm grasp of algorithms, algorithmic complexities, design patterns and principles, clean code, pragmatic aspects of programming
- Strong experience in coaching or helping other engineers grow in their skills and productivity
- High degree of attentiveness and care about the growth of other engineers in your team
What would make you stand out from the crowd (i.e., Preferred Qualifications)
- Masters degree, further education in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalently extensive professional experience in software development
- Strong experience in object-oriented, functional, or event-driven programming practices
- Strong experience in leading a team of engineers