Engineering Manager

At Helpshift, we have 5 Leadership Principles that we integrate into our every day, and use to guide us in our goals. These principles reflect who we are as part Keywords Studios, and to show who we are when we come together, collectively, with other studios to achieve success:

• Power of Partnerships: We collaborate with our clients as an extension of their team. With shared passion and purpose, we proactively support them in bringing their stories to life.
• One Keywords: We believe in a network with efficiency at its core. Combining the strength of a global platform with the agility of local studios creates our superpower.
• Raise the Game: We embrace technology, innovation and our entrepreneurial spirit to help our clients and the industry thrive. Leveraging the sum of our experience brings new value to gaming and beyond.
• Embrace an Open World: We champion diversity of talent and ideas from every corner of our global community. Inclusivity makes us stronger and enables us to deliver world-class entertainment creation to our partners.
• Trust through Transparency: We pursue open and honest relationships with our people, clients and communities. Clear and authentic communication is foundational as we create success together.

Helpshift is a SaaS platform that enables companies to provide a seamless customer support experience within the app! We are installed on over 2 billion devices and serve over 900 Million active users every month while enabling over ~7 Million conversations every month. You will work on projects that impact these conversations in order to bring maximum value to the consumer.

As an Engineering Manager you will get a chance to work  with and manage a technically rigorous but fun team of engineers. Our engineers are product minded (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/) and take deep care about shipping quality features and maintaining our systems. Please check out our Engineering Blog: Helpshift Engineering to get a sense of all the interesting work going on at Helpshift.

About the role:

• You will be leading the team responsible for workflow enhancements like chatbots and auto-assignment systems while integrating with AI features.
• Evaluate software solutions and system performance, as well as supervising the software development team.
• Lead the team in working towards the stability, scalability and resiliency of the Helpshift platform
• Manage the development, deployment, and integration of software solutions.
• Strive to improve performance, efficiency and sustainability of product.
• Advocate on behalf of team members
• Demonstrate patience and use effective explanations when mentoring junior software developers.
• Plan and execute strategies for completing projects on time.
• Determine the need for training and talent development.
• Hire team members and contractors.
• Display strong work ethics. Be a team player with a strong sense of ownership and collaboration.
• Collaborate with other team leaders and departments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information systems, information technology, or similar.
• 7 + years of experience in software development.
• 3 + years experience in team management.
• Ability to mentor junior software developers, as well as to collaborate with all stakeholders.
• Leadership, team building, and mentoring skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language such as Java, Clojure, Python or JavaScript.
• Production experience of systems using Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis
• Ability to keep up with software industry trends and innovation.

Nice to have:

• Have experience in managing 10+ engineers
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Knowledge of functional programming is a plus. (We use Clojure)
• Experience in working with any one of MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka or Postgresql at scale is good to have.

Benefits:

• Hybrid setup
• Worker's insurance
• Paid Time Offs
• Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India.