Principal Software Engineering Manager at Swiftkey

About the role

What will you do at Swiftkey?

Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with partners, product management and engineering teams across geos. Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership. Create a solid team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.

And of course, having fun too! Design and deliver on the vision of the next generation of the Big Data Analytics System and opportunity to work with the latest cloud services. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

OR equivalent experience. 12+ years of experience in software development in distributed system. 6+ years of experience in big data domain. 4+ years of experience managing a software team. Good communication, collaboration, and planning skills with demonstrated commitment to the success of others. Desire to manage diverse, inclusive, and collaborative software teams.

Passion for building highly scalable, reliable, distributed services. Experience with Azure Cloud Services.

Which skills does this role require?

JavaScriptPythonJavaC#Azure

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