Engineer Manager Department:
Engineering Location: Remote, India
Acquia is an open source digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology (built around Drupal) that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms. Headquartered in the U.S., we have been named as one of North America’s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.
Acquia runs one of the world's largest Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Our Drupal optimized cloud runs on over 18,000 AWS instances and delivers billions of pageviews per month, running some of the largest and most mission-critical websites in the world. We are seeking exceptional professionals who desire to deliver world-class performance and reliability while building powerful tools that enable our customers effortlessly scale their web applications. At Acquia, we are obsessive about providing our customers with security, availability, and scalability that is second to none and are looking for engineers who are equally passionate.
The Engineering Manager will join the Acquia office in Pune as the senior staff member. The office will be comprised of Professional Services, Operations and Support staff. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Engineering Manager will recruit a high performing team in accordance with Acquia’s growth strategy. The team will collaborate closely with staff in Boston so flexibility in working hours is important. Once the team has been recruited, the Engineering Manager will lead and manage the team, including ongoing career development and performance oversight.
Job Responsibilities:
- Managing and growing the team consistent with the needs of the business
- Providing oversight on methodology, technology decisions, and team productivity
- Removing impediments that block or slow down the development team
- Ensuring that the right roles are filled by the right people
- Motivating employees to achieve the business goals of the product
- Career development of all employees that report to you
Skills:
- Strong technical background ideally having worked as a tech lead or equivalent
- Extensive hands-on development knowledge on modern development platforms, Cloud based solutioning (AWS preferred)
- Passionate about people and people management
- Experience with project management and process improvements
- Uncompromising focus on excellence
- Empathetic towards customers and all the roles required to build a successful product
- Biased towards action and practical solutions
- Inquisitive and has a knack for seeking out truth
- Equally comfortable managing up as they are managing down
- Understanding of the Symfony framework would be advantageous.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and self-motivated attitude
- Experience with MySQL projects
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and experience with containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes, is a plus.
- Experience in PHP programming and object-oriented design principles, with a track record of working on scalable web applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 8 years of total experience with 2+ years managing software engineering teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has navigated teams through adverse situations, either successfully or unsuccessfully
- Well versed in modern development techniques and automated testing strategies
Extra Credit:
- Trained in Agile methodologies, preferably Scrum
- Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services
- Well versed in JIRA and Confluence
- Experience working with Mautic
Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
