Senior Engineering Manager

Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join us as we scale up our core systems and services in the Entertainment industry!

You will primarily support the growth of Orfium’s platform engineering teams and the improvement of core Orfium technology, and focus on building & developing high-performing cross-functional teams, guiding them through any challenges that come with being a scaling tech company.

A few things about ORFIUM:

Orfium is the global technology leader solving the entertainment industry’s biggest challenges around digital music and broadcast rights management, cue sheets, data, and reporting.

We’re transforming the entertainment ecosystem with industry-leading software and music reporting solutions so that whenever music is played in the world, Orfium is working behind the scenes to support its customers to track it, deliver the data, and help creators, rights holders, and media companies report and monetize the usage.

Orfium works with some of the largest music and entertainment companies in the world including Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Ingrooves, Red Bull, and many more! Our team of 700+ operates from locations including LA, London, Dublin, Sofia, Tokyo and Athens.

We’re music lovers, developers, data scientists and designers - all working together to improve the entertainment industry for everyone. Our people are passionate, dedicated and constantly innovating. We’re committed to creating a fair and transparent working environment where everyone can thrive and be themselves.

We are looking for talented people to join our team who are passionate about making a difference!

Requirements

Your day to day:

• Lead - multiple agile teams
• Drive - architecture design and technical discussions within the engineering teams.
• Inspire - by being a role model for other engineering managers and team members alike.
• Communicate - with product, engineering, and operations stakeholders.
• Ensure - the timely delivery of end systems, and the quality of critical platform services.
• Collaborate - with leadership to realize Orfium’s vision in the entertainment industry.
• Grow - their team while fostering a dynamic yet healthy environment for your teams.
• Improve - the quality of the end product by monitoring and improving software development practices.
• Develop - yourself by growing as an engineering leader

Your areas of knowledge & expertise that matters for this role:

• Critical thinking & Analytical mindset. You are an aficionado of data driven decision making.
• System thinking, and ability to drive architecture vision for your area of responsibility. You have led cross-team delivery initiatives in the past for complex software projects.
• Strong people management skills, and experience with managing engineering teams directly, as well as mentoring and leading other engineering managers.
• Sense of ownership, and shameless accountability.
• Bias for action; no problem or opportunity goes unnoticed for too long under your watch!
• Growth mindset with constant focus on the development of your team members and yourself alike.
• Understanding of agile software delivery principles and practices.
• Experience as a technology leader owning cloud-native software systems.
• Know-how in leading several cross-functional agile engineering teams.
• Able to design, implement and oversee engineering processes.
• In-depth understanding of Modern System Architectures, Design Patterns & Engineering Best Practices, Data Structures.
• Willingness to continuously learn and develop your skills. For you, there is always more to learn and improve!
• Excellent communication skills in English (verbal & written).

Extra Points if you have:

• Proven track record in team transformation in the past - changes in roles or engineering processes which made your teams more efficient are a huge plus!
• Worked in or led platform engineering teams in the past.
• Experience with data warehouse technologies and complex data pipelines.
• Love for music.

Benefits

🚀 You'll get to work into one of the up-and-coming tech companies in the Music Industry.

🏠 Hybrid work model

💰 Competitive salary & Stock Options plan.

🏥 Private Health & Life Insurance.

🌴 Extra Days Off.

💻 Latest tech equipment.

ORFIUM is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities without unlawful regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other local legally protected characteristic.