Senior Manager, Engineering

LearnUpon is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team in Dublin. This is a flex role, working 1 day per week from LearnUpon's Dublin office.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more. 

As a Senior Engineering Manager in our Engineering group, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the organization. You’ll be leading a team of Engineers to design and deliver a scalable, best-in-class LMS and you’ll grow and strengthen the great company culture that we have in LearnUpon.

What will I be doing?

• Lead and manage two to three teams of Engineers.
• Mentor and grow top engineering talent.
• Drive key technical and design discussions with the teams.
• Drive execution of product and technology road map by collaborating with Engineering, Product, Partnerships, and other business partners.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters ownership, accountability, transparency and innovation.
• Be a role model who inspires people to action and holds a high bar for craftsmanship.
• Drive alignment across the org in creating the overall long-term technology road map.

What skills do I need?                                                                                  

• 5+ years of hands-on technical management experience in a similar role.
• 5+ years of programming experience in software design and development in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++, Ruby, C#.
• Deep knowledge of developing web applications.
• Superb written and verbal English communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Ability to convey just the right message to just the right people at just the right time, with the purpose of keeping the business moving forward.
• Knowledge of (and a passion for) current trends and best practices in software design and architecture, including performance, security and scalability.
• Strong understanding of and passion for craftsmanship.
• Strong management skills for planning and executing complex projects.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a big plus

• Experience leading a large organization.
• Experience working with and leading teams in multiple locations.
• Experience in building and running large scale distributed systems.
• Track record of recruiting and growing top talent.
• A technology qualification (Degree or equivalent) in a field of study such as Computer Science or Engineering.

Why work with us?

• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
• Comprehensive private health insurance scheme and Company pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off. 
• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events.
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go.

What is the Hiring Process?

Our typical process generally works as follows:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a screening call.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews.
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C-Suite Team.
• The successful candidate will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. 

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.

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