Engineering Manager (Java)

Dive into the pulse of cutting-edge solutions with Patrianna LTD! 🚀

Are you ready to dive into the dynamic world of social gaming and be part of a rapidly expanding team? We’re on the lookout for a talented Engineering Manager (Java) to join our Patrianna LTD team on a full-time basis.

🌟 What You Gain?

Dynamic Environment: Step into the heart of a super fast-growing social gaming company, where innovation and creativity thrive.

Global Impact: Be at the forefront of crafting a global social entertainment platform, with a primary focus on captivating the North American market.

Limitless Growth: Take your career to new heights with opportunities for advancement and personal development. Join us in the exhilarating journey of continuous growth.

Massive Reach: Contribute to the development of client web and mobile apps that engage with up to 150 million customers worldwide.

Commitment to Excellence: We’re dedicated to delivering high-quality code, ensuring predictable behavior in production, seamless scaling, and automation every step of the way.

About the role
As the Engineering Manager in Patrianna’s team, you will provide software delivery capabilities by building and growing software engineering teams, supporting them during changes, enabling talents, and forming productive relationships with the entire organization. You will utilize your extensive engineering and managerial background to work with talented engineers and insightful product managers to build exceptional solutions that thousands of Patrianna’s customers rely upon. If you love growing strong teams, building customer-centric solutions, driving and embracing changes, striving for excellence every day, being adaptable and focused, and believing work should be fun, come join us!

Our Technologies:

• Java 19;
• Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3;
• Jakarta, RESTEasy, Websockets, Netty;
• Postgres(LightAlloy), Flyway, Ebean ORM, Quartz;
• Kafka 3.6;
• Docker, K8S;
• GCP Cloud;
• ELK, Grafana, Sentry, Distributed tracing;
• Testcontainers, JUnit, and alike.

Responsibilities :

• Manage and grow 3 cross-functional engineering teams under the Payment & Fraud group with a primary product scope of integrations with payment providers and fraud assessment services for the Platform;
• Participate and supervise conversations on key technical decisions, delivery expectations, people allocation, and collaboration with product managers and external stakeholders; be involved deeply in the team’s work and provide assistance to customers when necessary;
• Create a design of system architecture with all required artifacts, review it with all relevant parties, and balance between feasibility, speed, and quality for the solution;
• Run different technical initiatives across the company, e.g. API Gateway replacement, data archiving, etc.;
• Constantly monitor and improve development processes;
• Ensure teams have a clear understanding of goals and priorities, along with maintaining excellence: fixing the technical debt, making improvements, and providing innovations;
• Keep high morale and motivation within teams even during complicated situations, facilitate a culture of care, mutual trust, help, transparency and open-mindedness;
• Systematically support and recognize the team’s success, assist them in understanding, accepting, and learning from fails;
• Manage staffing: hire new team members according to company values, culture code, and budget but keeping the highest professional bar possible; make hard decisions when “no go” cases happen;
• Monitor and maintain performance, receive and process feedback on the team holistically and at the personal level;
• Drive performance assessment and honest compensation review for the team members.

Requirements:

• Similar experience in fintech: payment provider, payment aggregator, bank;
• 10+ years of experience in software development, primarily with Java stack;
• 4+ years of experience in managing 2+ teams (or big teams, 15+) in modern software development companies with a focus on result and efficiency;
• Humanity, and empathy which are aligned with performance, business acumen, cost analysis, setting clear expectations, and giving constructive feedback;
• Be open-minded and capable of learning from the experience as well as the courage to make decisions that lead to the desired future state;
• Excellent communication skills in English and native language, written and verbal. You can explain your idea to any engineer or manager and perceive valuable feedback.

Technical Requirements:

• Experience in the design of system architecture;
• Experience in the Java ecosystem;
• Experience with Kafka;
• Experience with K8S;
• Excellent understanding of Web principles, HTTP, REST (including security aspects);
• Experience with one of the cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure;
• Experience with incident management and monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, Sentry, DataDog, NewRelic, PagerDuty);
• English: Upper-intermediate+.

Would be a plus:

• Ebean;
• Protobuf;
• GCP.
  
  
  Benefits:
• Full Remote Work: Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely from wherever you feel most productive.
• Company Events: Engage in our vibrant company culture through a variety of informal events designed to foster camaraderie and teamwork.
• Continuously Development: Get an opportunity to join a fast-growing business where the sky’s the limit.