Engineering Manager

2 Weeks ago • 2 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager at Cognite, you will lead a team of 5-10 engineers, developing services and applications for Cognite Data Fusion, a SaaS platform for industrial data. Your responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, coaching engineers, understanding user problems, unblocking the team, setting technical direction, and potentially writing code. The role requires managing end-to-end feature delivery, ensuring the team builds high-quality products and delivers them on time. This role requires a collaborative mindset to contribute to the greater good. You will be involved in setting product and technical direction as well as writing code, assisting with code reviews, and documentation. The team works in a high-paced environment.

Must have:

Experience in a product company.
2+ years of experience with people management.
5+ years of full-stack experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
Collaborative mindset, striving for the greater good.
Experience building data-intensive applications.
Experience managing end-to-end feature delivery.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Good to have:

Experience as a senior engineer or tech lead.

Perks:

Join a global community of 70 nationalities.
White Field office location (Bengaluru).
Modern and fun working environment.
Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers.
Opportunity to work on ambitious projects across industries.
Hybrid work environment globally.

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Job Details

About Cognite

Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digitalization, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where data meets ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

Learn more about Cognite here

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Our values

Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.

Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.

Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.

A typical day as a Cogniter will contain the following tasks & responsibilities

Manage a team of 5-10 engineers, developing services and applications for Cognite Data Fusion - a robust, state-of-the-art SaaS for industrial data.
Collaborate with a cross-functional team consisting of designers, product managers and program managers to ensure the team builds the right product, that is of excellent quality and is delivered on time.
Coaching all of your engineers with variable backgrounds, seniority and understanding of the domain they are solving to have high impact in the team.
Working with your team to understand the users' problems and domain.
Unblocking the team and collaborating with stakeholders outside of the team to resolve and mitigate problems.
Being actively involved in setting product and technical direction.
You do not shy away from writing code yourself, or help your team with code reviews, documentation, etc.
Dogfooding our products to try to put yourself in our users’ shoes.

We believe most of these should match you and your experience

You have a background in a product company
You have 2+ years of experience with people management
You have 5+ years of combined full-stack experience, with proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and server-side technologies.
The added experience of having worked as a senior engineer or a tech lead is an advantage
You have a genuine and keen interest in building the competency of engineers in a company and can do so emphatically
You have a collaborative mindset, and have a drive to always look at the greater good
You have experience with building applications that process high volumes of data
You have experience managing end-to-end feature delivery
Have the motivation to work in a high-paced environment
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Join the global Cognite community! 🌐

- Join an organization of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝

- White Field office location (Bengaluru)

- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more

- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy

- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries

- Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.

- Hybrid work environment globally

Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀

Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainabilityfor clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇 Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇

Apply today!

If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team.

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