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☁️ Edinburgh office, fully remote – work from anywhere in EMEA!
🏖 33 Days Paid Leave
📘 Exciting product, 10s of millions of users, sold to global brand
💻 M1 Max MacBook Pro or PC Equivalent
✨ All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need
SUMMARY
Storm Ideas have developed a platform called Storyteller that allows brands to integrate Stories functionality and more into their apps and websites. The platform is in use by multiple global brands serving 10s of millions of users. Check us out on ProductHunt!
We are looking for an experienced .NET Engineering Manager to hit the ground running, build scalable processes from scratch and take the lead on our .NET team. We’re at an exciting stage in our journey with a number of commercial opportunities on the horizon we need to execute successfully on. We’re looking for an amazing individual to join our growing team and help push this product on to the next 100 million users.
If the idea of a fast-paced, dynamic role with tonnes of opportunity for change, responsibility, and innovation sounds exciting to you, then read on!
ABOUT US
Storm Ideas work with globally-recognised clients in the US TV industry on extraordinary digital and marketing projects. Every day we produce work that is innovative, challenging and enjoyed by millions of people!
Storyteller is a new B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their native apps. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention and driving advertising revenue within a native app. Building stories into your native apps can take years and a lot of investment however Storyteller has solved this by allowing companies to integrate in days, not years all for one monthly cost. Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS and Android SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.
RESPONSIBILITIES
What can you expect?
- Attracting, retaining and developing engineering talent
- Supervising and mentoring engineers of different seniority levels
- Influencing and inspiring excellence in engineers related to both project work and their self-development
- Shaping and driving our engineering culture in partnership with the CTO
- Leading and understanding the architecture design process, which includes contributing to day-to-day software development challenges
- Putting in place and continuously improving quality practices
- Optimizing team efficiency
- Standing up for both your team and the organization if you feel decisions are not in the best interests of either
- Serving as a technology leader with a strong focus on quality, performance, scalability and maintainability
QUALIFICATIONS
What’s important to us:
- Experience leading a team of software developers to deliver projects
- Experience working with either C# to a high standard
- At least 5 years experience in the industry
- Experience conducting 1-1s
- Commitment to pursuing best practices in software development
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience working with business stakeholders and contributing to business concerns (e.g. pitches, presentations, roadmaps, etc)
- Strong interpersonal skills
What’s nice to have:
- Experience taking part in hiring processes and running interviews
- A demonstrable occasion where you led a major change initiative in a previous role (for example, introducing code review to a team of developers)
- A demonstrable example of taking ownership of a situation in a previous role
YOUR WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Modern tech stack
We adopt the latest technologies – Swift on mobile, .NET 5 (moving to .NET 6 right now!), Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, Hangfire, Azure, Terraform on the backend and React, Redux, SASS on the frontend, Swift and Kotlin on mobile – constantly looking for the best tools and solutions.
Openness for ideas
We actively encourage the team to share their ideas, and we’re enormously proud to adopt improvements, you’re the specialist here!
Outstanding People
We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality and skills, we’re an international team with more than 100 people onboard, the technical team counts around 30 specialists, and half of them are senior developers. We’re looking for people with a passion for what they do – just be yourself!
Development-driven projects
60-70% of our daily tasks are new features development, we care a lot about quality assurance, that’s why we enlarge our QA team.
Top-notch equipment
We provide you with a high-end laptop, M1 MacBook Pro or Windows as well as your own choice monitors, headphones, keyboard, mouse and whatever you need to feel comfortable at work.
Flexibility
We’re a remote-first company and support 100% remote working for this role. We have flexible working hours so you can start your day anytime between 8am and 11am. Joining Storm means becoming an integral part of the whole team no matter where we’re physically working.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
First, you will meet Dave, our CTO, in a 60-minute interview via Zoom. The purpose of the meeting is to get to know you and for you to get to know the company – understanding our shared ways of working and goals. We’ll be open and honest with you during this process about where the successes and challenges we’re currently facing.
We’ll then schedule a second interview with another of our Engineering Managers for a more technical deep dive on the various aspects of management as well as some culture-fit questions.
And that’s it!
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