Engineering Manager Social

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Do you want to work in a rapidly growing company and form the digital future for the world's largest hobby? Then we could be just what you are fishing for!
Did you know that fishing is the world’s most popular hobby? We do! And here at Fishbrain we have created the world’s largest social network dedicated to people who love fishing. We want to make sure that we can give them the greatest experience possible and make their fishing dreams come true, today and tomorrow.
We have over 14 million users all over the world who have logged more than 12 million catches in our app. We’re growing rapidly, both in our social network and in the company, which is why we’re looking for an Engineering Manager, Social team to join our pond. We hope that it’s you.
The Social team at Fishbrain is focused on features to connect anglers. The work involves community safety, content discovery via social feeds, and conversations.
In this role you will have a big impact on our core part of the platform, building a team where our culture can flourish and drive our social offering forward.
In the position as an Engineering Manager you report to the CTO.
Please submit applications in English, those that are not will not be reviewed.
Your work will involve:
People manager - You are the reporting manager for the engineers in your team ensuring that your team members are developing, while also staying motivated and challenged.
High-performing teams - You drive improvements in the cross-functional commerce product team towards high-performance.
Agile culture - You lead the quest towards fast learnings and high quality delivery using modern methodologies, since we strive to continuously improve and test new waters.
Recruitment - You drive to expand and grow the Social team.
Planning and execution - You work closely with the team’s product manager and designer to support the prioritization and alignment ensuring effective work processes and high quality.
Technical - You will be driving the technology in the team forward by coaching and mentoring the team members. We also expect you to be an active participant in the technical discussions.
Innovation - Help to maintain and excel on the more social aspects for Fishbrain’s ever growing user community.
Data - Define and analyze tech metrics that inform the success of your team’s work.
Coding - We expect that there will be time to jump into the deep end of the pool with coding.



What we are fishing for:
Experience in building and managing cross functional product teams.
You don’t need to be a full stack developer, but you should have a solid understanding on how both mobile and backend work and be able to contribute at least in one of the platforms as a developer.
Very good understanding of agile methodologies and a demonstrable ability to drive innovation and execution through your team.
Experience in growing and leading a team of engineers towards high performance through honest and transparent communication, coaching and effective delegating.
A servant leader enabling your team to take ownership of the company and its goals and to win as a team.
Experience within fishing and the fishing industry is a plus.


This role is located in Stockholm.
Our Bait We have trust in our employees which means that 1. you will be given a lot of responsibility from day one and 2. we value your opinions and ideas. No matter the team, everything we do has an impact on our users and on Fishbrain as a company. Our culture is very important to us. If you have a “win as a team” mentality, are passionate and like to have fun, then Fishbrain is the place for you!
Feeling hooked? Throw us a line!