R&D manager

R&D manager (any office of company or remote)

Project: ​

Your Opportunity and activities You’ll be involved in with Optiva:

• Coordinate cross-functional teams on the delivery of new product features
• Work together with highly talented and professional engineers recognized as world-class specialists in their areas
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Release Managers, Architects and Software Engineers from multiple geo locations
• Motivate and develop your team to achieve high productivity and morale
• Introduce and sustain development processes aimed at high quality and efficiency
• Recruit and retain top talent engineers in your team

What You'll need to hop on board and hit the ground running:

• You love developing and growing people and have a tracked record doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high-quality software together with them
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the tribe leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• 3+ years of experience as a second line manager, leading 30 people or more
• Experience building engineering teams from ground up
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; fluent English is a must
• Experience turning business objectives into team priorities and milestones
• Track record in working across geographical, cultural and functional boundaries, to deliver well integrated solutions
• Experience managing in complex environments, with competing priorities and multiple stakeholdersLead RnD team(s) delivering key product features
• Drive the successful execution of projects by managing schedules, resources and dependencies

It would be much easier for You if you have:

• Experience in GCP, AWS, Azure, 
• Experience in K8S 
• Experience with Java build tools including Gradle
• Experience in CI/CD - Github, Jenkins, Helm, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
• 3+ Telco experience (5G, IOT, AI, BigData, ML)

And of course You have a full-steam desire for:

• Have a software-centric mindset
• Be comfortable with coding
• Relish change and frequent releases
• Don’t fear complexity and scale
• Understand the full software stack
• View problems as an opportunity to improve
• Embrace automation over manual effort
• Translate the technical into business language
• See challenges from a business perspective
• Be prepared to move on with tasks

Conditions:

• Competitive salary
• Works on complex and interesting IT project
• Comfortable office
• Additional medical insurance
• Flexible start of the working day
• English courses
• Participation in specialized events (conferences, seminars, trainings) at the expense of the company
• Professional and career growth