Engineering Manager

Wati is a growing SaaS platform that provides end-to-end WhatsApp API solutions for SMBs and large enterprises. We aim to simplify business communication, helping businesses meet their customers where they are – WhatsApp.

Backed by global investors such as Sequoia, DST Global, and Tiger Global, we’re Shopify’s first investment in a startup in Asia.

Headquartered in Hong Kong and trusted by 8000+ customers across 100+ countries. We’re a rapidly expanding team filled with talented people from around the globe.

We are growing fast, and we are now looking for an Engineering Manager to work closely with Development, QA, DevOps, Support and Product. You are a leader that will participate in senior technology strategy discussions, drive ideation across a distributed software team, develop implementation roadmaps and work with technical individuals to transform this into software products and solutions.

What you’ll do: 

• Lead, inspire, coach and mentor the team of software engineers by example and feedback
• Effectively manage the processes necessary to operate the team in the development of new products and solutions
• Champion application modernization with an ongoing commitment to industry-leading quality, reliability and security standards to continuously improve new and existing systems
• Provide technical leadership to and cultivate relationships with product managers, data scientists/engineers and software architects
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies, data engineering, data science, software engineering to design reliable, scalable and robust end-to-end architectures
• Recruit engineers that are amongst the best in the industry, from outreach through close

Requirements

• At ease leading or working in several different technical tasks concurrently
• Significant programming experience in “either” C#, JavaScript, Python, Go, “or” other like languages
• Substantial experience in cloud-based system configuration, programming, and deployment
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices, agile software development methodologies and development principles
• Track record leading a team of software engineers in a startup environment
• Proficient communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience

What will make you stand out: 

• Strong business acumen, able to align engineering efforts with business objectives to deliver impactful results.
• Engineering manager or team lead experience
• Strong expertise in at least one or two programming languages (C#, Java, Go).
• Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, MongoDB, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, or similar technologies