Manager, Platform Engineering

Manager, Platform Engineering
Craiova
Craiova, Stefan cel Mare 12, Craiova, 200129, Romania

Salary: 16. 000 - 17. 500 RON net per month

• Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or other relevant field, plus 5 years of professional experience in a technical software development position
• Experience with and deep understanding of user authentication systems, protocols, standards and patterns (OAUTH, SAML, Token bearer, etc. )
• 5+ years as a software engineer in a professional software development organization
• 3+ years of experience developing web applications, backend services, and test automation
• 3+ years of experience with object-oriented design, RESTful APIs, gRPC, testing methodologies, server-side programming languages, web services, and relational databases
• 3+ years of experience with scrum-based software development tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence
• 2+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, identifying skill gaps, creating corrective action plans, and executing action plans
• 2+ years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring engineering talent
• 2+ year of experience with a large-scale enterprise product and/or distributed SaaS systems
• 2+ year of experience leading all ceremonies for a Scrum team, including daily scrum, end of sprint retrospectives, sprint planning, grooming meetings, and prioritization of work
• 1+ year of experience with Go, Angular, Kafka, and K8's
• Excellent time management skills with an emphasis on managing remote resources around the world and across many different time zones
• Identification and management of risks and dependencies, both internal and external
• Ability to identify and coordinate delivery of dependencies across multiple teams and products
• Long term vision that promotes short term deliverables in quarterly release format based on factual, data driven scope definitions
• Strength in planning, scheduling, executing, and finalizing delivery on regular two-week sprint cycles based on individual capacity and team velocity
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization and across differing types of audiences
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills with differing consumers, stakeholders, team members, partners, and customers

• Responsibilities:
• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers, providing regular coaching, career development, and structured feedback to drive engineering excellence and accountability
• Conduct regular 1:1s with engineers, perform employee performance reviews, establish organizational and individual goals and objectives, and ensure goal attainment
• Handle compensation decisions, promotions, hiring, and advocate for resources to address team gaps
• Build positive team culture promoting innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, maintain sprint boards, remove blockers, and implement retrospective feedback to enhance team processes
• Define product roadmaps and technical vision with stakeholders, communicate progress, ensure quality standards, and align architecture with business goals
• Track key metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rates), balance workloads, and implement data-driven planning for sustainable delivery
• Champion GAI tool adoption, track usage, measure impact, and integrate into team workflows and performance evaluation
• Manage cross-team dependencies through clear integration points, API contracts, coordinated releases, and comprehensive documentation
• Present team progress to stakeholders and collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, architects, and other teams in technical discussions
• Lead technical decision-making including architecture, technology selection, code reviews, engineering standards, and transforming business requirements into optimized solutions
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, establish architectural best practices, identify risks through proof-of-concepts, and develop strategies for eliminating technical debt
• Plan and execute projects by breaking down requirements, estimating timelines, staying current with emerging technologies, and proactively identifying codebase improvement opportunities

• API
• Angular
• Backend
• Confluence
• CRM
• Git
• JIRA
• Kafka
• OAuth
• SAML
• Web
• gRPC

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last updated 51 week of 2025