Engineering Manager

**Company Description**
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Who we are..._**

At Trustonic our products are making a difference across the world. One moment we’re ensuring low-income families worldwide can access the life-changing benefits of an internet-enabled smartphone. The next we’re protecting the safety and integrity of the vehicles we drive and the devices we care about.

We pride ourselves on living by the Trustonic culture code, a blueprint for our journey that recognises that great working environments don’t guarantee success, but bad ones almost always ensure failure.

Working here, you’ll find a company that celebrates its diversity and is looking to do the right thing: for each other, the community and the planet. We believe in equal opportunities and take to heart the old African proverb ’If you only want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together’.

We work flexibly when and where we’re at our best, but regardless of how you choose to work, we’ll make sure you feel like one of the team.

Click here if you would like to find out more about Trustonic's culture code.

If you would like to work in a fast-moving global technology company, with great ambition, then we’d love to hear from you

Reporting to the Americas Lab Director, we are looking for an Engineering Manager for our development lab in Colombia. You will be part of the Product & Development team responsible for building and maintaining our SaaS platform and services, serving customers throughout Latam. You will work with the broader technical, support and product team whilst collaborating with strategic outsourced partners and customers. You will be more focused on the end to end technical aspects of our platform.

**_ A bit about the team and what you'll deliver..._**

As an engineering leader within our Product Development team, you will be at the heart of the business collaboratively responsible for leading the engineering team in Colombia. You will work with various stakeholders, whilst driving the engineering teams to work through the technology components that build out the platform, inline with customer needs.

Reporting to our Chief Product Development Officer, we are looking for a individual with demonstrable engineering, technical and operational leadership experience in on-prem and cloud based services.

As an **Engineering Manager**you will:

- Build and maintain an engineering strategy that augments our product strategy, and furthers the platform technology strategy
- Create an inspiring work environment and drive for engineering excellence
- Participate in our product, design and engineering leadership team to ensure engineering initiatives are appropriately represented in planning and in product roadmaps
- Ensure that the performance of all engineering teams is actively measured and monitored, and identify and resolve impediments as quickly as possible
- Grow your teams by ensuring the right training and tooling is available to teams to balance working styles, experience, capability and career aspirations
- Lead your direct reports and enable them to thrive in the organisation, support them in their career development and goals
- Collaborate with your peers in other areas to share knowledge and work on common initiatives

**_ Who you are..._**

As an **Engineering Manager**you will have:

- Hands on experience with development, problem solving working with customers, and understand how to build cloud platforms
- A desire to work in a fast pace environment, charting uncharted domains, and be able to own the direction, and drive engineering teams towards clear outcomes
- Architecture, Oracle and Cloud (AWS & or/Azure) technical experience, and understand how to build SaaS platforms
- A deep understanding of product delivery and mobile network operators
- A passion for software engineering excellence and enabling teams to succeed in their endeavours
- Experience with managing teams of people in product or technology companies
- A growth mindset, you understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work
- An ability to build trust and credibility with stakeholders across all levels of the business
- Comfortable with uncertainty and change and an ability to bring clarity for the people you lead
- Defined technical solution standards and guardrails for development teams
- Served as a technical platform expert providing input/ guidance
- Defined technical requirements (scalability, availability, maintenance, security). Architecting, designing, coding and deploying full-scale systems based on critical business outcomes, communicating architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies, while also highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments
- Promoted a positive work environment; selecting and training new team members; continuously providing feedback, mentoring, and coaching to inspire a high-performing team of principal engineers who are empowered to develop a technology architecture that e