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Engineering Manager
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · 3 days/week in office · Geneva, Switzerland
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
Engineering Manager at Sonar leading a squad of 8 developers to build, automate and operate software used by millions of Sonar customers. The role owns team growth, engineering standards and collaboration with product and AI teams.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · 3 days/week in office · Geneva, Switzerland
What you'll do
- Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success
- Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard
- Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly
- Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams
- Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy
- Ensure the squad defines clear objectives that are aligned with team, department, and company goals
- Be accountable for tracking sprint progress
- Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully
- Ensure that the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.)
- Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team and participate in improving the hiring process
- Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad
- Lead by example, modeling the behaviors and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership
- Lead the elaboration of the squad's annual and quarterly objectives in close collaboration with the AI team while contributing to and overseeing technical architecture and engineering direction
- Collaborate closely with engineering manager peers to foster and share engineering best practices
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, with a strong understanding of software testing
- Developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework
- Advanced knowledge of the Java ecosystem
- Good knowledge of at least one programming language along with its development environment
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams
- Growth mindset and a passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential
- Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and resources effectively
- Capability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it, before jumping to possible solutions/actions
- Ability to deliver effective feedback
- Good listening skills
- Ability to face small conflicts in a healthy way and help parties resolve them
- High level of autonomy and still accepting help and feedback from team members and peers
- Ability to challenge yourself
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About Sonar
Ship agentic code with confidence
Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Its core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development.
Key facts
- Austin, Texas
- Software development / code quality platform
- SonarQube verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day
- Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100
- Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas
- Global team working across offices and hubs including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area
Partners & customers
NvidiaServiceNowBooking.comGoldman SachsAstraZenecaFord Motor Company
What they value
- Humility
- Servant leadership