About the company:

As part of United Internet Group, with more than 9800 employees and 25 million fee-based customer contracts, we are Europe’s leading internet specialist and largest hoster. Building the roof for strong brands such as 1&1, IONOS, STRATO, GMX, WEB DE, MAIL COM, 1&1 Versatel and the Drillisch Online brands, United Internet offers a broad portfolio of Internet access products and cloud applications.

Present in Romania since 2003, we are an Engineering Centre that lives and breathes technology.

Our engineering culture is shaped by the use of cloud native technologies, microservices combined with a DevOps attitude and an innovative mindset. We have a customer centric culture where every colleague is a contributor to our products’ design and success working closely with teams in Bucharest and abroad. Our strength lies in our team spirit and a positive and respectful interaction. In Romania, we have passionate teams sustaining the business segments of Access/Telecommunication, Mail & Media and Hosting, working and enjoying the 1&1 culture together.

About the team:

This is a development focused team. In a Cloud environment the customers expect API first self-service, immediate delivery and complete automation. Thus, our weapons of choice are GoLang, GitOps and CI/CD - not root shells and bash scripts.

We are looking for someone strongly familiar with teams and processes, who will be accountable for the engineering team’s performance and quality. As such, you will also manage recruitment of the team as we grow. This role reports into the Head of Engineering, Platform as a Service.

We are looking for someone passionate about heading one of our PaaS development teams in order to provide excellent products, service and support.

This person will be responsible for motivating and monitoring engineers, providing coaching and aid in personal growth and development.

Main responsibilities:

•  Recruiting, managing and maintaining an excellent engineering team;
•  Planning and executing complex technical projects related to PaaS offerings;
•  Collaboration with technical leads;
•  Contribute to the overall architecture, design and development of PaaS projects;
•  Managing software project schedules;
•  Maintaining and improving team performance and quality of life;
•  Developing processes to improve product performance and quality;
•  Ensuring successful product and feature rollouts, as well as reliable operations;
•  Creating a healthy team culture and transparent communication;
•  Providing coaching and counseling via mentoring and one-to-one meetings;
•  Planning and executing training for the engineering team.