Backend Engineering Manager

Centric Market Intelligence™ (formerly StyleSage), is an AI-driven competitive assortment benchmarking and market trend insights solution for fashion, beauty, and home goods brands and retailers. 

We are a key innovation partner for iconic and emerging brands across the world. 

Our platform is able to analyze the info of more than 1.000 retailers, processing data from more than 600.000 brands, tracking 100’s of millions of products! 

You will be the Engineering Manager of the Backend Team, where you will guide the engineers in charge of the processes and tools to keep that pipeline of data in excellent shape, fresh, and available. 

The team uses the latest and best open-source technologies out there. Our massive amount of data lives in PostgreSQL databases, and we know how to take good care and make the most of them. We code in Python (and we love it, you may want to come to the PyCon Spain conference with us!). We are a cloud-native company, so our code runs in AWS, and we provision that infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible code. We keep an eye on all this using observability tools like Grafana, Influx, and Telegraf. 

What You'll Do: 

• Team management (Follow up on tasks, 1:1s, talent retention). Keep the backend engineers happy, and make their careers grow at Centric Software. 
• Work closely in tandem with the technical lead of the backend team to: 
  • Identify, solve, and prevent blockings and dependencies within the team and with other teams. 
  • Build roadmaps, set priorities, balance team capacity, and mix short-term productivity with long-term maintainability. 
  • Work with Product, other team’s Tech Leads, and the CTO to understand the company’s needs and help with estimations and capacity planning. 
• Be the “face” of the backend team. Communicate with stakeholders, help or push back when needed. 
• You take the occasional coding task to keep your skills in shape. 

Your Skills: 

• You can communicate in English proficiently with both technical and non-technical peers. 
• You are a “People first” person. You care deeply about the people in your team and look out for them in all situations. 
• You value a work environment where empathy and kindness are the baseline of relationships. 
• You facilitate and empower the career growth of those you manage. 
• Good motivational skills. You know how to make your team deliver while understanding the complexity of their tasks and the degree of uncertainty they can have. 
• Solid software engineering foundations. You have a degree in software engineering or equivalent knowledge and experience. 
• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, preferably with Python, Django, and, ideally, AWS, before becoming an Engineering manager. 
• 3+ years of experience working as a team manager (Tech/Team Lead or Engineering Manager). Providing feedback, hiring, and having 1:1 meetings is something that comes naturally to you. 
• You can manage very skilled and senior software engineers. 
• Good people skills. You can get along nicely with all kinds of personalities. You listen to others and are capable of changing your mind if arguments contrary to your ideas are provided. You prioritize finding a solution over winning arguments. You convince or get convinced. 

What we offer: 

• 100% remote work 
• Training and conference budget 
• Health insurance 
• Life insurance 
• Private pension plan

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.