Engineering Manager

Boku ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

About Boku: Incorporated in 2008, Boku is one of the world's leading providers of carrier billing and mobile identity solutions. Using nothing more than a user's mobile phone, Boku's technology can verify a user's identity, execute a payment, or provision a new service, radically simplifying common, everyday mobile interactions between consumers and businesses. This is possible because Boku's platform can access the internal billing, identity, and sales systems of mobile operators globally. Businesses who utilize Boku's platform include major brands such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, Paypal, Experian, Fiserv, Western Union, Uber, and Discover. Boku was originally financed through top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures and NEA. Today, Boku is publicly traded on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: BOKU.L) We're a small company, but we have a global reach. We work face-to-face with colleagues and collaborate across disciplines. But our clients, partners and operations are all over the world. Boku is a busy, exciting, and demanding place to work, but it's the people that make the company. The mix of cultures, viewpoints, and experiences are vital for a global company like ours and every person's contribution is valued. If you are looking for a new challenge in an exciting, innovative and international working environment, we are the ideal company for you. Boku is looking for an Engineering Manager with product development experience to lead our Enterprise Engineering team. This position will be in London, UK but the Engineering Manager will lead a distributed team with engineers located in Sibiu and Mumbai. The team is responsible for development and maintenance of our finance systems to include settlement and reconciliation. This person will tackle challenges including, but not limited to, improving processes, providing technical leadership and direction for the domain, unifying technologies, and implementing new features with scalability in mind. What you'll do * Lead a distributed Engineering team * Work closely with Stakeholders on building out roadmaps and developing new features from inception to production * Roll up your sleeves and contribute technically to project/initiatives * Drive technical projects working with other Technical Leaders * Provide technical leadership throughout the whole SDLC * Lead process improvement initiatives to improve Engineering as a whole About You * Hands-on technical leader experienced working with large scale systems * Self-starter - You require little to no supervision * Demonstrated ability to lead a full stack domain * Growth-minded - You are curious and enthusiastic to expand your skills * Ownership- Your team is your business. You are confident, driven, self-motivated and quickly take ownership of your work. * Product minded - You enjoy working with stakeholders on requirement discovery and building out new features * Multiplier - You are passionate about growing your team and building new leaders for Boku * People Management - You care about your engineers and their career progression. You want to ensure they have the right tools to do their job * Desire for impact - You are willing to take on more responsibilities as opportunities arise Requirements: * Proven experience in technical leadership as a Tech Lead or Team Lead * Proven and recent experience in people management and building teams * Experience managing and working with distributed teams * Experience programming in Java * Experience with Javascript is a plus Apply for this Job