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Mambu is the SaaS banking engine powering innovative loan and deposit products, the lean alternative to cumbersome core banking systems. Helping clients to successfully start-up business ventures, transform existing operations, launch new products and expand into new markets. Mambu provides financial institutions of all sizes with the agility to rapidly design, launch, service and scale their banking and lending portfolio.
We believe that a great company is built on great people. We are proud to have brought together incredibly bright minds to help make financial services ready for the 21st century. Our clients understand what it takes to succeed in a fully digital world and our team is a trusted partner in their endeavors.
We are looking for passionate, skilled and enthusiastic leaders for our Product Areas, built of multiple teams that operate in a related product-space. As an Engineering Director you will work closely with the product management and tribe leadership to define objectives for your area, the “what” part of the story. Your full accountability will cover “how” we convert the objectives in concrete real products or practices.
You will be the direct people manager of engineering managers, principal engineers, technical product managers and other related roles and accountable for creating a great working environment that enables high autonomy, high alignment and streamlined product engineering process.
What you'll be working on:
- Ensuring product area has a clear mission, principles, goals that are aligned to the tribe direction and everyone from the area is onboard with them;
- Ensuring compliance with architectural principles for delivered solutions;
- Defining and acting (monitoring included) on quarterly team objectives to achieve team objectives, as agreed with Tribe Champion;
- Ensuring each person fully understands their role/position and achieves the outcomes expected from them;
- Working closely with stakeholders (product management, architecture, commercial) to define area delivery roadmap;
- Ensuring area roadmap successful delivery, on-time and in budget;
- Making sure that area is equipped with the right people, skills and diversity to autonomously and successfully deliver on the roadmap and capabilities backlogs;
- Ensuring customers and stakeholders are updated on expected delivery times for their needs and get constant updates;
- Communicating news on time, to ensure there are no bad surprises.
- Ensuring if the services delivered by the area match highest quality standards and are delivered following an interactive approach over the production readiness criteria;
- Constantly reviewing operational metrics and ensuring the right actions are implemented on time, to avoid incidents and speed up response & recovery times;
- Ensuring if all services and capabilities match our agreed SLAs. Defines operating objectives and monitoring indicators for all the services in the area, to match the SLAs;
- Constantly adapt validation stages to the evolution of the area and the organisation for relevance, efficiency and effectiveness qualities.
- Ensuring architecture and ways of working enables each team to autonomously design, build, test, deploy and run(monitor, observe) their own capabilities;
- Defining and applying modern engineering practices to enable team autonomy and alignment to our way of working;
- Ensuring all teams evolve by adopting modern practices to achieve their goals: pair programming, test-driven development, continuous delivery etc;
- Ensuring all teams are constantly identifying impediments and applying ways to overcome them.
- Ensuring that every person in the area has a clear and ambitions growth path;
- Creating, together with other areas and tribe leads, grading/promotion process that ensures Tribe wide consistency, while ensuring fair and motivating compensation;
- Establishing holistic coaching and mentorship principles and ensure each team member receives fair & just-in-time feedback;Facilitating relevant learning and skills growth for each person (training, conferences, learning materials, mentors etc.);
- Integrating an efficient onboarding process for new colleagues in the area, ensuring each new member is aligned to our values, culture and plans are aligned with the team they are part of
- Defining recruiting strategies to acquire new skills or create capacity to satisfy business needs, longevity, skills diversity, attrition mitigation and competitiveness at area level;
- Coordinating internship programs to grow and attract talent;
- Budget forecasting.
- Establishing the right communication channels and constantly communicating;
- Ensuring all people inside the area have constant access to the information they need, both from inside the area and around the Tribe, product and company;
- Represent & advertise Mambu during internal/external events;
- Ensuring the area has speakers at meetups, conferences to advertise Mambu, in order to attract talent and contribute to the community.
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Compensation and benefits
Why Mambu?
Why Mambu?
About us
Mambuvians come from over 30 countries across six continents. Over the years we have become increasingly diverse in perspectives and ideas. To us, diversity is a company-wide value, and a strategy to boost productivity and to leave a positive, global impact on our industry. From Europe to Asia, and the Americas - Mambuvians are experts at collaborating globally.
We are a no nonsense company that loves a good challenge and is fostering a culture of a great work-life balance. Our perks range from a 4-day-working-week in summer, to extraordinary team getaways.
Building on collaboration and trust, we created a true ownership culture, which is integral to our success. We help and empower each other to make decisions that can have a lasting impact on our business, and influence thousands of customers and millions of their end users world-wide. Are you up for it?
