Engineering Manager, iOS

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Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

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You have a deep systems background and value technical excellence, and use that to guide the team towards well-engineered and durable solutions. While you aren’t expected to spend a large percentage of time coding, you are expected to be able to evaluate and raise the technical bar and help others attain it. You will play a part in engineering, design reviews, code reviews, and will contribute to the code base directly when needed. You lead by example rather than authority.

What will you be doing?

• Delivering projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently;
• Taking full ownership over a delegated Feature(s), as well as teams and resources, assigned to the Functional unit;
• Identifying key business objectives and providing solution recommendations while performing business proofs;
• Working with the Product Manager to define the roadmap for any given Feature and evaluating user stories from a technical perspective;
• Ensuring all delegated Features are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (alpha/beta/production);
• Setting up procedural guidelines to establish a successful delivery process;
• Ensuring that operations are cost-effective and stay within budget;
• Handling all challenges in support of company-wide projects/programs delivery in a form of efficient scoping, prioritization and requested functionality delivery expedition;
• Mediating and resolving cross-team negotiation issues, acting as a point of escalation for stakeholders and team members;
• Orchestrating team/teams backlog and scope adjusting to strict deadlines and business goals;
• Implementing and maintaining Feature and team/teams KPIs, metrics, and operational excellence according to industry best practices;
• Acting as liaison officer between different teams to build partnerships and develop solutions.

What are we looking for?

• BA’s degree in science, engineering, technology architecture, database design, or software engineering;
• 8–10 years of experience in technology development fast-paced environment, with at least five years spent on using software delivery management tools;
• Proven experience delivering software projects effectively;
• Strong ability to develop code using modern languages and frameworks, such as iOS SDK, Swift;
• Established experience with project management programs, SCRUM, and different variants of AGILE techniques are also expected, along with familiarity with code management and Continuous Integration/Delivery Implementation (CI/DI);
• Experience working with Model View ViewModel (MVVM) design patterns, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and relational databases;
• Strong analytical skills and data-oriented mindset;
• Excellent people management and communication skills.

Benefits

• Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
• Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
• Competitive salaries;
• Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
• Ultramodern offices in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Parus);
• Flexible working hours;
• Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
• English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
• Ability to travel to the US;
• Corporate activities and parties;
• Dedicated wellness area in the office;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• 15 days of paid sick leave;
• And, of course, we use Surprise internally!