Role Overview
We’re hiring a Senior Technical Manager who is a builder at heart, an architect in practice, and a team leader by example. You will drive hands-on platform development, scale our engineering teams both domestic and international hubs, and guide system evolution for speed, resilience, and simplicity. This is a leadership role for someone who still loves to code.
You will oversee product teams across India, Macedonia, and the U.S., helping MostEdge evolve its microservices, automation, and AI layers across a growing portfolio of services—from back office operations to real-time analytics and customer engagement tools.
Responsibilities
Platform Leadership
- Design and evolve microservices-based platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, and modern Java stacks
- Lead code reviews and architectural planning sessions for scalable, low-latency systems
- Drive adoption of clean coding, CI/CD, and quality-first engineering practices
- Guide technical choices across Angular, React, Flutter, WebSockets, and cloud-native tools
Team Building & Global Management
- Recruit, mentor, and grow distributed teams across India, Macedonia, and the U.S.
- Scale engineering organization without loss of quality, speed, or culture
- Conduct weekly sprint planning, delivery reviews, and one-on-ones with technical leads
- Define individual and team-level growth plans tied to business outcomes
Innovation & AI Readiness
- Partner with product and data teams to enable AI-ready architecture
- Simplify services to allow smarter analytics, faster decisioning, and machine learning automation
- Build common data pipelines and event-based systems for analytics and alerting
- Champion low-code or API-first tools that support customer flexibility and internal reuse
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work directly with MostEdge operations, product, and infrastructure teams
- Translate service line needs (Fuel, Pricing, Invoice, Store360, Loyalty, WatchGuard) into reusable systems
- Drive engineering excellence while aligning to the company’s customer-first mindset
Accountability & Outcomes
- Scale engineering team from 20 to 45 engineers within 12 months
- Deliver 95%+ sprint velocity for all customer-facing product teams
- Maintain platform uptime of 99.95% or better
- Complete refactor of 3+ critical modules into containerized microservices within 6 months
- Launch 2+ AI/data integration initiatives by Q2 of year one
- Improve developer onboarding and codebase navigation time by 50%
Qualifications
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 3–5+ years in a leadership or architecture role
- Deep hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Angular, React, Flutter, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD