Engineering Team Manager

Engineering Team Manager

Platform & Microservices

Position Overview:

Anaqua is looking for a dynamic Engineering Team Manager to lead our Platform & Microservices team spanning development QA automation and DevOps. This is a hands-on leadership role you write code review architecture and make technical decisions while managing people and delivery.

You will play a dual role: Product Owner for the platform services (owning the backlog priorities and roadmap) and technical team lead who drives Agile execution engineering excellence and team growth. You lead by example your team sees you in the code in the design discussions and at the whiteboard.

Youll love this job if you like to:

TEAM & DELIVERY LEADERSHIP

• Team Management lead a cross-functional Agile team of developers QA automation engineers and DevOps engineers.
• Agile Execution drive sprint planning daily stand-ups backlog refinement retrospectives and release coordination.
• Delivery Ownership own delivery commitments sprint goals release timelines and production readiness.
• People Development build a high-performing team through hiring onboarding mentoring performance reviews and career development.
• Stakeholder Management remove blockers manage dependencies across teams and escalate risks proactively.
• Team Culture foster a culture of ownership continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

PRODUCT OWNERSHIP PLATFORM SERVICES

• Backlog Management own the product backlog for platform services prioritizes features tech debt and operational improvements.
• Roadmap & Strategy collaborate with business product management and architecture to define roadmap and quarterly goals.
• Requirements write clear user stories with acceptance criteria; ensure the team understands the why behind every deliverable.
• Prioritization make trade-off decisions between scope quality and timelines with a customer-centric lens.
• Cross-Team Alignment represent the platform in cross-team planning dependency discussions and release coordination.

HANDS-ON TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

• Lead by Example actively participate in code reviews architecture discussions and design decisions.
• Backend & Cloud hands-on development experience with Java microservices APIs (REST gRPC) and cloud-native patterns on GCP.
• DevOps Fluency strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and infrastructure automation.
• QA Understanding familiarity with test automation strategy E2E (Playwright) API testing contract testing and quality gates in pipelines.
• Technical Decision-Making ability to evaluate technical trade-offs guide technology choices and drive architectural standards.
• Production Ownership experience with observability production debugging incident management and post-mortem processes.

ENGINEERING PRACTICES & STANDARDS

• Establish and enforce coding standards review processes and engineering guidelines across development QA and DevOps.
• Champion shift-left quality automated testing static analysis security scanning integrated into the development workflow.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code GitHub Copilot) to improve team productivity.
• define and track engineering metrics deployment frequency lead time change failure rate MTTR.
• Ensure secure coding practices and compliance with organizational security policies.

AGILE & SDLC MASTERY

• deep practical experience running Scrum or Kanban teams in a continuous delivery environment.
• strong command of the Agile work item hierarchy Epics Features User Stories Tasks Bugs.
• Jira mastery board configuration sprint metrics velocity tracking release planning and reporting.
• full SDLC ownership from requirements through development testing deployment monitoring and maintenance.
• clear understanding of environments and promotion workflows Dev QA Staging Pre-Production Production.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & MINDSET

• Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time and at quality.
• Dynamic and adaptable comfortable switching between strategic planning and hands-on problem solving.
• Excellent communicator translates business needs to technical teams and technical complexity to business stakeholders.
• Customer-centric every decision is evaluated through the lens of end-user impact.
• Proactive and innovative brings ideas to improve product process tools and team capabilities.
• Resilient under pressure maintains clarity and calm during production incidents and tight deadlines.

What youll need to be successful:

• 10 years of relevant industry experience required.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Product Owner (CSPO).
• Experience managing distributed or remote teams.
• ReactJS frontend knowledge for full-stack architectural context.
• Python for scripting and automation.
• Cloud cost optimization and FinOps awareness.
• Background in brand protection IP enforcement or digital investigation domains.
• Experience in enterprise SaaS domains.

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1