Engineering Manager
Job Description
This role is part of our Keyword.com team, one of our growing brands at saas.group.
Keyword.com is a premier keyword rank tracker helping customers monitor their Google rankings with precision and accuracy. Our state-of-the-art real-time reporting tools empower businesses to optimize their digital presence effectively. As we continue to grow, we are seeking a visionary Engineering Manager to lead our technology division and elevate our product offerings.
Profile Overview
As the Engineering Manager, you will spearhead the development and technological innovations at Keyword.com. You will build and lead our engineering team, overseeing all aspects of software development, from strategic planning to execution. Your leadership will ensure that our technology not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers and remains at the cutting edge of the SEO industry.
Your immediate impact in the first 3-6 months will be:
- Taking over the management of the development team and development processes
- Consolidating documentation on the app
- Take over the sprint planning and implementation in conjunction with existing Project Manager
- Create a plan and implement the transition from an external agency to our new in-house development team.
Your responsibilities
- Lead the engineering team during the development and implementation of software solutions, ensuring high-quality code and alignment with the company's strategic goals.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Manager (the CEO for now) to define and execute the product roadmap, ensuring optimal alignment of technology with business objectives.
- Make pivotal decisions regarding the selection, development, and deployment of technological tools and frameworks.
- Manage sprint planning, allocation, implementation, and retrospective analysis to optimize team workflows and productivity.
- Oversee the architectural integrity and maintain the high scalability and reliability of our systems.
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to stay ahead of industry trends and explore new technologies that could enhance our product offerings.
- Develop and manage the department’s budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to maximize innovation and productivity.
- Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, documentation, and testing procedures.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, ensuring they are motivated and equipped to meet their goals.
- Serve as a technical and business advisor to other departments, helping them understand and implement technology solutions in line with their objectives.
What You bring to the table
- Experience as an Engineering Manager or Head of Engineering or similar leadership role in a technology-driven organization. Outstanding people skills and willingness to sharpen your leadership skills even without similar titles can be an option too.
- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
- Familiarity with our Tech stack: PHP, vue.js, Github, AWS, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, MySQL
- Excellent leadership skills with experience managing cross-functional tech teams.
- Familiarity with modern programming languages, tech stacks, and software development best practices.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle management.
- Exceptional problem-solving capabilities and strategic thinking skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of working effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
What’s in it for You
- Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
- Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of independence to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
- Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
- Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally.
- Unlimited paid time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.
Keyword.com is part of saas.group and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.
What is saas.group?
Think of us as the driving force behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 300 colleagues spanning 44 countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 17 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.
We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.
Sounds like something you’re up for? Feel free to apply even if you don’t check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!
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SaaS.Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply.
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Our fintech client, is seeking a Senior Contract Recruiter in Europe to join their team during a time of change and growth. As the company continues to expand and evolve, our client needs a talented and driven individual to assist in finding the best candidates for all open positions.
As a Contract Recruiter, you will play a crucial role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent for our client. Your responsibilities will include sourcing and screening candidates, conducting interviews and working closely with hiring managers to understand their needs and develop effective solutions to meet those needs.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you must have a deep understanding of the fintech industry and its talent landscape. You should be a sourcing expert and able to creatively utilise various recruitment methods with a limited budget, including online job boards, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and social media.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, as you will be interacting on all levels with international candidates, hiring managers, and other HR team members on a daily basis.
With our client undergoing a period of change, we need someone who is adaptable, resilient, and able to work in a fast-paced environment!
Your ability to multitask and prioritise will be critical in managing a high volume of recruitment activities.
Benefits
This is a contract position for approximately 6 months, located in European timezone.
If you are a results-driven and adaptable Contract Recruiter (Sales/Business or Technical) with a passion for finding top talent, we would love to hear from you.
Please answer these questions in the 'cover letter' field on the application form:
- Have you previously worked in the UK or collaborated with British-based teams?
- Are you currently working remotely or from home?
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Customer Success Specialist
The ideal candidate will have impeccable relational skills and can create win/win environments for all parties that he or she works with.This candidate will be responsible for providing an excellent customer service experience and help customers achieve their desired goals.
Responsibilities
Operational follow-up:
- Manage students' requests, including lesson/package operation, complaints, etc
- Manage and monitor students' actions and public reviews
- Ensure the transmission of policy launch-out to the concerned service
- Assist with quality assurance, seeking to identify & solve bug or technical-related issues
- Proactively problem-solve with the Product Ops, Product, Tech and Marketing teams
Community Moderation:
- Moderate community contents, including discussions, notebook, etc
- Deal with the user complaints reported in community
- Nurture the italki community and support users via email, community, italki message, etc
Management & Coordination :
- Day to day management and response to students' emails
- Diagnosis of the existing student support across departments
- Identify best practices to improve procedural guides and keep them updated according
to new actions (new releases, system update, new policy etc.)
Mobile Support:
- Reply the reviews in all the app stores, including App Store, Google Play Store, Tencent, Huawei, 360 etc
- Analyze the feedback from the reviews to help improve the iOS and Android app.
Regional Operation Support:
- Customer support for China team, including but not limited to WeChat support, live chat, etc
- Customer support for other regional team if needed
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree, English Major or equivalent practical experience
- 0-2 years online and offline customer facing experiences
- Strong interpersonal skills and multicultural awareness
- Strong communication and reporting ability, and able to clearly summarize and report the operation status of a policy announcement based
- Results-orientation, faculty-centric, Inspire dedication, strong ownership
- Highly organized with attention to details
- Highly adaptable to cross-functional environment
- Excellence in presentation, spoken and written skills in English
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- Passion for languages with language skills in addition to required English
- Experience in a customer service environment preferred
- Experience in high tech, software development, education technology industries
- Experience in growing and scaling company growth or start up team experience
- Experience in companies with global / regional presence with multiple offices across different countries
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Integration Engineer
Join a fast-growing, open-source dev-tool startup with repeat founders and Y Combinator backing:
At Nango (YC W23), we have developed an open-source platform dedicated to product integrations. It's a developer tool crafted by engineers, for engineers, seamlessly connecting software solutions.
We are searching for an integrations engineer who is keen on profoundly impacting other developers' lives.
By joining us, you will also be stepping into a well-funded, seed-stage startup environment.
Learn more about jobs at Nango, our team, and what we shipped lately.
Location
Remote across the Americas & EMEA.
What You’ll Do
- Develop new integrations and maintain existing ones.
- Collaborate tightly with the product team to improve Nango.
- Work directly with customers.
Requirements
- Strong ownership & work ethic
- Strong organizational skills to track and fulfill customer requests
- Excellent English and clear communication skills
- Coding velocity & ability to multi-task to meet customer deadlines
- Ability to write high-quality code: readable, structured, documented, reliable, memory-efficient & performant
- 1+ years of experience in professional backend engineering
- Proficiency in Node.js and Typescript.
Interview process
- A single 40-minute coding interview
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UIUX Designer
Responsibilities
- Rapidly design, prototype and develop elegant solutions focused on helping users integrate into the community.
- Gather insights from data and qualitative research, develop hypotheses, sketch solutions with prototypes, and test ideas with our data team and in experiments.
- Think about universal designs that can scale not just across platforms but also internationally and across user types.
- Document detailed interaction models and UI specifications.
- Collaborate with other designers to maintain design consistency and coherence across the features on italki’s apps and website.
Requirements
- Education background in ergonomics, psychology, industrial design, visual communication design or related design
- A minimum of 5 years’ proven experience in mobile Internet community or social products, knowledge payment or related industries
- Understand the design methods and trends of platform and mobile products
- In the user experience design principles, design methods and processes have a deep understanding, broad vision and high aesthetic standards
- Good logical thinking, innovative ability, pay attention to the industry design trends, familiar with the current interactive form and user operation mode. Have strong data thinking and logical ability
- Excellence in presentation, spoken and written skills in English
Skills
A/B Testing · User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · User Interface Design · Critical Thinking · English · Mobile Internet · Systems Design
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