Engineering Manager of our platform team

At Famly, we’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to run one of our highly skilled engineering teams, our platform team, and to help us build an even greater product. As EM for our Foundation team, you will work as a part of a product trio and the engineers who build and maintain our platform.

We are looking for someone who has solid process experience in running an agile delivery process for an engineering team, and that can seamlessly tap into our existing product development process, together with our other engineering managers in Famly. You must have great people skills and stakeholder management skills as well, and experience managing hybrid teams.

We expect a quite deep technical understanding, enabling you to participate in product trio and to assist with tech scoping and triage, but you are not expected to participate in the actual development of our product.

The position is Copenhagen-based.

And Famly are...? Well it all began when our co-founder Henrik’s daughter was ready to start at daycare. He couldn’t believe the amount of work being done on paper - and how distant he felt from his first child during the day. The paper ‘parent’ books they exchanged once a month just weren’t cutting it. Together with his friend, our co-founder and CEO Anders, they set about solving that.

These days, the 180 of us building Famly talk about trying to do two things for our 7,000+ customers:

• Giving children the best possible start to life.

• Championing the vital work that goes into making that happen.

We do it with software that brings hundreds of thousands of parents closer to their child’s day while they’re away from them. We also make financial, pedagogical, and planning tools for more than 34,000 childcare professionals, saving them hours and reducing their admin stress.

Ultimately, that gives them more time and headspace for the little ones that really matter. Come help us make that happen.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing a crew (team) of 7 engineers, the majority on-site in Copenhagen, a few in Berlin and one fully remote.

• Running efficient agile development processes; building great features but also carving out time for handling tech debt and maintaining our platform.

• Work closely with your crew's product manager and designer (product trio) to plan out and prioritize development work for the crew

• Participate in scoping out work and features, and initial estimation of features

• Ensure proper planning, breakdown and estimation of development tasks

• Participate in stakeholder management and collaborate with departments outside of Engineering, where you act as anchor point to your crew

• Facilitate and plan technical onboarding of new engineers

• Actively participate in the hiring of new engineers, both on-location and remote working

• Develop, grow and motivate your team of engineers - individually and as a crew

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have great people skills and love to work with and develop highly skilled engineers

• Have a strong technical background

• Are structured and can effectively run a agile delivery process

• Are good at motivating others to do their best individually and as crew

• Have great communication skills and experience in stakeholder management

And it’d be even better if you:

• Have 5 years of experience as an Individual contributor, potentially experience with Scala, PHP or React

• Have minimum 3 years of experience as a Team Lead or as Engineering Manager with people management responsibilities

• Enjoy a technical challenge and are curious about new technologies

You'll be working with:

You will be working with other engineering managers (6 in Engineering, 2 in Growth) at the Copenhagen office and will participate in all aspects of managing a growing group of engineers, including hiring and people management. See who our engineering managers are on our website.

In close collaboration with the PM in the crew and our SVP of Product, you will be responsible for planning development, new features as well as maintenance. You will participate in the product trio with PM and Designer; planning and facilitating execution of development cycles.

Together with our CTO and the other engineering managers, you will be part of an efficient management team that has the authority to develop the best possible processes to ensure that we keep on delivering a great product to our customers.

Our tech-stack consists of Scala, PHP, React, MySQL, Kubernetes and AWS and it will be an advantage if you have good technical insight.

You will report to our CTO.

Want to get to know some of our engineers at Famly? Have a look at these Q&A’s:

Jean from the Growth team

Tomas from the Foundation crew

Gise from the Parent-Teacher-Partnership crew

You’ll love working here because:

• We’re all about hiring a diverse array of clever people - who are good humans too. It means Famly is full of top thinkers and generous teammates waiting to help you shine.

• A big focus on people support with personal and career development, including leadership summits and training sessions, leadership network groups and presentations at the office.

• We like to give a lot of ownership both in terms of responsibility and freedom to try new things. We’ll get you up and running and collaborate along the way, of course.

• Top-notch work equipment.

• Office location on Købmagergade, conveniently located in the heart of Copenhagen.

• A yearly training and conference budget of 10,000 DKK.

• A yummy daily buffet and a well stocked drinks fridge (did someone say snack corner?)

• Our private rooftop courtyard (sunny all year round, we promise…!)

• Endless team fun with dinners out, office BBQs, Friday bars, big quarterly social events, game nights, running and climbing clubs and more!

• Check out some Famly vibes, testimonials and videos.

The interview process looks like:

• An intro video chat with our People Partner

• Logical test

• An interview with our CTO

• An interview with two of our other EM’s

• An interview with one of our PM’s

• Potentially an assignment with a written answer

We appreciate that everyone brings something unique, so even if you don’t tick every box above, we’d still love to read your application.

We're looking to fill the position as soon as possible, so get your application in today by sending us:

• Your CV

• A cover letter to tell us what you can bring to the role, and what speaks to you about Famly.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Famly is committed to creating a more diverse, equal, and inclusive workforce, building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. It is a fundamental policy at Famly not to discriminate on any basis or characteristics and celebrate diversity. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply.