Engineering Manager - Platform Team

Come join our friendly Engineering team in building powerful solutions for excellent human to human conversations all over the world.

About the role
We’re looking for an Engineering manager to help our Platform team build excellent products for our global customers. You will ensure your team members are happy and engaged, and you will use your technical skills to ensure the team makes the right decisions on architecture and implementation.

About the Platform team
The team you’ll be managing consists of 3 developers, 1 DevOps, 1Data Engineer and 1 product manager (not managed by you). In the Platform team, we focus on developing and maintaining the foundation which other teams can build customer-facing products. For example internal APIs and data storage and pipelines. Platform is also responsible for the customer facing APIs, and is currently building our next generation API.

Our ways of working
The team has clear responsibilities and goals and the freedom to collaborate on the optimal design for the products and solutions we build. Throughout the organization we take an agile approach to processes and teamwork, and we constantly evaluate and adapt, with the teams being responsible for their own ways of working. Developers, Product Managers and UX Designers are working together in the teams. We use modern frameworks and the best tools available.

We work flexibly and have fun at work. Delivering customer value is as important as the wellbeing of our friends and colleagues. We value personal growth and encourage learning and embrace every opportunity to share knowledge in the team.

Who you are
We believe that you are an excellent developer with experience leading people. You find it equally satisfying designing and building a solid software architecture as watching your team members grow. You enjoy learning, teaching and improving. You are comfortable in a team environment, and take responsibility for your deliveries, and pride in the quality of your work.

Some of your responsibilities:
- Be responsible for solution design as well as doing hands-on work together with the rest of the team.
- Ensure development of your direct reports through coaching, mentoring, and management support.
- Be a champion for code quality, stability and testability within our product and services.
- Work closely with Engineering management to ensure a sound architecture.
- Be responsible for discovery, pre-planning and grooming activities on Product level.
- Work together with our Agile Coach to define and improve ways of working within the team.
- Identify and document general maintenance and enhancement efforts in the team’s tech stack
- Work closely with Engineering management and the recruitment team in hiring and on-boarding new colleagues.


When it comes to technical proficiency we are primarily looking for experience from
- Node.js and/or Typescript
- Working with the cloud (AWS), serverless principles and/or microservices
- DevOps practices


Experience with PHP, Go or the SIP protocol is highly valued!

We also expect you to have experience from (and a passion for!) leading people and building highly motivated and productive development teams.

Working at Freespee
Freespee will offer you an open, unpretentious, goal-oriented culture with a lot of growth potential. We love to run hackathons; enjoy Lunch & Learn, ping pong, game nights and encourage labs - which means that 10% of your working time can be focused on your own development.

We offer 30 days of vacation, wellness benefits, health insurance and a pension package. And we work flexibly; you’re encouraged to find your own balance between working from the office and remotely.

About Freespee
Unleash the power of conversations and drive digital prospects to convert fasterWe help brands turn every conversation into a winning experience that converts into a sale. We enable consumers to talk to brands in real time via their interface of choice (voice, SMS, Whatsapp and Video). Our conversational commerce platform is designed to attract, proactively engage and convert online prospects into customers.

Freespee empowers brands to embed communication channels into their digital experiences. Our analytics platform unifies digital and conversational data points to track consumers’ actions and understand how voice, video and messaging can be optimised to deliver a better customer experience.

Freespee’s orchestration engine enables brands to drive buyers seamlessly through the marketing and sales funnel with marketing automation workflows across all channels.

Freespee is built for enterprises and marketplaces and runs on top of all existing communication, data and CRM infrastructure. Freespee has deep expertise in automotive, real estate and luxury.

Headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, Freespee has offices in London and Paris delivering conversational commerce to the world’s leading brands such as eBay/Adevinta, Fiat Chrysler Automotive, JLL and the Richemont group.