Manager, Software Engineering

At G-P, our mission is to break down barriers to global business, enabling opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With remote-first and diverse teams all around the world, our people are key to achieving this mission. That’s why we trust our Dream Team members with the flexibility and autonomy to do their best and most innovative work, encourage and support their personal growth and career development, and believe in recognition for a job well done.  

Our industry-leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables our customers to expand and grow into 180+ countries, creating more opportunities for global success – without requiring entity or subsidiary setup. The technical opportunities you’ll experience here have a positive impact on people and their work/life possibilities around the world. Beyond the power of our platform, we never forget that behind every hire is a human being. And that brings us to you. 

If you have a passion for automation, are a deep innovator, and want to solve complex problems that lead to a world of positive results, consider G-P. Here, your knowledge and experience will be crucial to helping design and develop high-performing cloud-based software products using traditional Agile methodologies and modern frameworks.  

Beyond a competitive compensation and benefits package, what we offer to all employees along the way is the clear and simple promise of Opportunity Made Possible. Come expand your skills in new ways and experience the thrill of your best innovations becoming reality.  

We are looking for a passionate, detail-driven and result-oriented Manager, Software Engineering to join our team in Ireland!

The Team:

With our in-house global engineering team we are building the world’s top-rated global Employment Platform.

At G-P we are strong advocates of CloudOps culture where product managers, engineers, QA, IT operations and InfoSec work together towards a common goal, enabling the fast flow of planned work into production, while achieving world-class stability, reliability, availability and security. 

What you can expect to do:

• Independently lead the team of software engineers, providing both hands-on technical and motivational leadership.
• Drive the implementation of development activities, from design through execution to the maintenance of assigned software solutions.
• Work collaboratively with engineering leadership, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand high-level requirements and develop software architecture and design.
• Help translation of business requirements into technical needs and actions.
• Support technology roadmap, by creating and driving the detailed planning, scheduling, and execution of development plans to meet business goals and schedules.
• Comply with, help in defining and enforce all professional departmental as well as company best practices.
• Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools.
• Ensure software engineering personnel is suitably trained to perform all job function and suitably use project and software-related tools, provide mentorship and support their personal and career development.
• Support to recruit engineering personnel, technical staffing, and feature teams formation. 

What we’re looking for:

• Solid software engineering background, with extensive experience developing enterprise-scale web/cloud-based commercial software products.
• Experience leading complex software development projects through all phases of the software development life cycle using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Proven record of strong technical leadership.
• Strong experience with both back-end, front-end and deployment technologies –Node.js, Java, Spring, React, REST, SQL, etc.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies, experience with AWS and Serverless is a plus.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience in a start-up or high-growth environment is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Capable of working with ambiguous requirements and minimal direction.
• Take pride in writing well-structured, well-commented, and maintainable code. You’re always thinking of security, performance, and scalability.
• Well respected and acknowledged as an expert by peers.
• Challenge yourself, learn from others, and strive to grow professionally every day.
• Emotionally mature team player with a positive can-do attitude.