Beter11d ago

Hands-On Engineering Manager

PL·Warsawmid

EngineeringEngineering Manager

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Quick Summary

Overview

BETER is a rapidly growing product company. We create competitive content supplemented with analytics. For more than 5 years, we have been organizing sports tournaments, broadcasts, and developing our own sports community. We hold 45+ thousand events per month in esports and classic sports.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Contribution (~40%): Active Coding: Writing high-quality C# code for tools, products, and complex architectural components.

Requirements Summary

Management Experience: 3+ years of experience in managing a team, including organizing work, maintaining discipline, delegating, and monitoring execution.

Technical Tools

awscsharpelasticsearchkafkamongodbpostgresqlprometheuscode-reviewmentoringperformance-optimization

Responsibilities

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Active Coding: Writing high-quality C# code for tools, products, and complex architectural components.
Architectural Design: Designing services in collaboration with the architect and business analysts, focusing on high-load and scalability.
Quality Assurance: Implementing and maintaining software development best practices, coding conventions, and conducting rigorous code reviews.
Performance Optimization: Identifying bottlenecks, profiling database queries and code, and troubleshooting performance issues.
Testing: Writing unit tests for functionality and ensuring high test coverage within the team.

Team Operations: Organizing team workflow, planning sprints, distributing tasks, and monitoring execution.
Mentorship: Mentoring engineers, assisting in the creation of Personal Development Plans (PDPs), and fostering technical growth.
Hiring: Participating in the recruitment of team candidates, assessing technical expertise, and managing onboarding.
Process Management: Implementing and monitoring compliance with development processes; minimizing bureaucracy.
Feedback & Evaluation: Providing regular feedback to team members, conducting 1:1s, and assessing performance.
Administrative: Approving vacations, sick leave, time off, and managing the team's schedule and workload.

Requirements

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Management Experience: 3+ years of experience in managing a team, including organizing work, maintaining discipline, delegating, and monitoring execution.
Technical Expertise: 6+ years of expertise in the .NET ecosystem (tools, libraries, frameworks).
Coding Proficiency: Capability to write high-quality code in C# (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core) with a strong understanding of OOP, SOLID concepts, and design patterns.
Database Skills: Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL (profiling queries, designing schemas, understanding index logic).
Asynchronous Processing: Experience with message brokers (Kafka preferred), including building asynchronous data delivery, fault tolerance, and scaling strategies.
DevOps Practices: Experience with automation of development/QA tools, monitoring, tracing, and debugging in cloud environments.
Code Quality: Strong adherence to code review practices and standard coding conventions.
Availability: Willingness to participate in on-calls according to a pre-planned schedule.
Business Orientation: Ability to treat the entrusted area with responsibility, setting goals and systematically improving team skills.

Nice to Have

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Experience developing in languages other than C# or Frontend experience.
Experience digging into the internals of frameworks.
Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and complexity (Big O).
Understanding of the differences between AMQP and Kafka.
Experience with MS Orleans, Prometheus, Clickhouse, and OpenTelemetry.
Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics or technical education.

High-Load System: Based on .NET 8+, processing real-time changes and recalculating analytics.
Infrastructure: Code is containerized and lives in AWS EKS.
Data Stack: Kafka for real-time messaging; MongoDB and PostgreSQL for data storage; Victoria Metrics and ElasticSearch for observability.
Team Structure: Cross-functional teams focused on specific services with high autonomy.
Decision Making: Processes prioritize quick decision-making based on risk analysis and alternative assessment.