Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager at VGW, you'll lead a team developing and maintaining a high-performance, distributed platform designed to handle large-scale traffic. This role offers the chance to solve complex challenges and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

What you should know about our Engineering team:

• We make room to do things the right way, rather than hacking stuff in.
• You own your projects: you build it, you ship it, you run it.
• We were born in the cloud: practices like CI/CD, IaC, O11y and CyberSec are part of what we do.

When it comes to Learning and Development:

• Learning is part of our fabric. We have a world class Engineering Learning and Development program and we are passionate about career development.
• Thought pioneers regularly give tailored talks and workshops for our team.
• We are proactive in the community attending many local and international conferences; and when covid hit we held our own day-long conference: Techtonic
• We have both a technical and management track for career progression and promotions.
• We have a library of books and videos with good content and encourage staying on top of new practices.

In terms of our tech stack, we host our docker containerized apps on AWS, sometimes in ECS but moving to EKS Kubernetes. In the containers, we run Kotlin on the JVM. TypeScript runs our client side where it’s mostly React. Our databases are PostgreSQL and DynamoDB with Snowflake as our Data warehouse

What you will bring to the role:

• Extensive experience in engineering, including leadership roles such as Engineering Manager;
• A proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams;
• Deep technical knowledge and experience in designing and implementing robust application architectures and scalable system designs;
• Experience in cloud-based computing (we’re hosted on AWS), and bonus points for familiarity with Kubernetes and Terraform;
• Empathy and a commitment to mentoring, guiding, and supporting your team’s growth and career development;
• A product-focused mindset paired with excellent stakeholder management skills.