Engineering Manager (Driver Team) in Uklon

Uklon is a product IT company that develops a leading ride-hailing service. Every day, the powerful Uklon team pumps one of the largest infrastructures on the market of Ukraine and abroad, ensuring the interaction of drivers and riders.

We create a highload product, behind which are hidden ambitious technological challenges, continuous innovation and non-obvious moves. Our work framework is to test new hypotheses, push your ideas and use the latest technology stack.

Join us in the role of Engineering Manager in Kyiv

Hiring process:

What we offer specifically for this role:

• you will have direct influence on development and planning processes
• you will have the opportunity to maintain and improve your management and engineering skills and experience
• you will influence to develop a product that you use yourself and see the results of your work
• development of a highly loaded product based on microservices and with the most modern stack
• a company culture where everyone is significant and valuable and has an impact on processes and results< /blockquote>

How exactly can you influence the development of the company:

• set goals for engineers through OKRs, adjust processes to achieve business indicators
• facilitation of cross-team interaction, work with risks and blockers
• suggest , develop, support, control development processes and overall SDLC
• plan, coordinate, prioritize and accompany technical and business tasks and initiatives
• implement practices to improve planning and deliver tasks on time
• people management: one-on-one, construction of PDP, direct participation in hiring teammates

Challenges for six months:
• get to know the team, processes, priorities and challenges
• fully take over direct EM responsibilities from the team (PO, TL) < br/>• maintain current product development metrics
• propose and implement team performance improvement plan for 3-6 months

To achieve results, you will need:

• from 7 years of experience in the field of software development
• from 3 years of experience in managing technical teams
• business orientation and focus on results
• technical expertise in mobile development or management of mobile application development
• people management of teams with a focus on developing and supporting teammates to achieve successful results
• effective communication of complex solutions in both business and technical languages

Of course, we will teach, but it is good to have:

• experience on projects with microservice architecture, API-first approaches, automated testing, CI/CD

How do you regulate your working hours?
• you can plan your work schedule independently, however, to be effective,
we have a mandatory joint working time - business hours, from 11:00 to 16:00
• 20 days off for personal needs and 10 - due to illness (with retention of reward)
• day off on your birthday as a gift from the company
• day off for blood donation

How will you improve your skills in Uklon?
• internal trainings, workshops, hackathons, knowledge sharing, etc.
• corporate training
• corporate library and subscriptions for information resources
• attending webinars, lectures with the participation of company speakers, etc.
• personal/team budget for training
• English lessons

Work (War) - Life Balance
We are a socially responsible company, so we spend a lot of time on activities related to volunteering, we also regularly support team spirit during non-working hours: we love driving team building, sports competitions, etc. We say "no" to routine and monotony, so we create a space where it's really fun to do your job - it's definitely not boring with us.

Health Care:
• corporate health insurance, including for members located abroad

Regular Sport Activities:
• Uklon Football every week
• Uklon Online Yoga every week

If you are looking for a driven and ambitious product company focused on development and global expansion, interested in using the latest technologies and ready to further improve your expertise, join the Uklon team.