Engineering Manager, SonarSource
3 days a week in office
Code quality management platform
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Code quality management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable developers and development teams to write clean code and remediate existing code organically, so that they can focus on the work they love and maximize the value they generate for businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, including a proper understanding of testing. Advanced knowledge in the Java ecosystem is mandatory for this role as well as a good understanding of the devops mindset and ecosystem
- Having a developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework
- Good knowledge of at least one programming language along with its development environment to understand end-user's context and expectations
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams with a strong taint on DevOps skillset
- A growth mindset and a passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential
- Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and resources effectively
- Capability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it, before jumping to possible solutions/actions
- Ability to deliver effective feedback
- Good listening skills
- Ability to face small conflicts in a healthy way and help parties resolve them
- High level of autonomy and still accepting help and feedback from team members and peers
- Ability to challenge yourself
What the job involves
- As an engineering manager for the team, you will lead a squad of 5-10 developers and DevOps to build, automate and operate software used by millions of Sonar customers worldwide
- You will own the professional growth and development of your team, enabling them to build well-crafted software for our products, and promoting a high-performance engineering culture
- You will improve our products by leading the elaboration of the squad's annual and quarterly objectives in close collaboration with the Product Management team while contributing to and overseeing technical architecture and engineering direction
- You will help to bring consistency across SonarSource engineering organization by collaborating closely with your engineering manager peers to foster and share engineering best practices
- Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success
- Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard
- Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly
- Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams
- Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy and ensure that the team's work and focus align with this vision
- Be responsible that the squad defines clear objectives aligned with team, department, and company goals
- Be accountable that the squad tracks sprints and progress
- Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully
- Ensure the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.)
- Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensure we recruit enough to reach our goals
- Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad
- Lead by example, modelling the behaviours and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership
Our take
It has been reported that bug-prone software costs enterprises close to $3 trillion every year, and with developers now handling higher volumes of code than ever, SonarSource’s products automatically ensure that only clean code is embedded when they update software.
The company was founded in Switzerland in 2008, and has become the market leading platform for code quality control. While its first decade was encouraging, the period from 2018 and today has been an astounding period of hyper growth.
It has earned Unicorn status, opened up offices across Europe, as well as in the US and Asia, and counts the likes of Nasa, Microsoft, and IBM amongst its customer base. Indeed, the vast majority of the Fortune 100 use SonarSource.
With its position at the head of the market established, SonarSource is aiming to expand its headcount and continue its momentum, especially in the US and Asia-Pacific, where the tech industry is booming
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Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2022
$412m
LATE VC
Nov 2016
$45.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $457.8m
Company benefits
- Safe work culture - we value respect, kindness, and the right to fail.
- Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.
- Great people - we value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid back. Still, that does not prevent us to be passionate leaders in our domains. Our 300+ SonarSourcers from 33 different nationalities can relate!
- Work-life balance - keeping a healthy work-life balance is important. This is why we have a hybrid work policy and some people prefer working some days from home.
- Always keep learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is a must, and we're happy to help our team to acquire them.
Company values
- Continuous innovation: Our R&D teams continuously innovate to make it easier for all developers to deliver clean code.
- Continuous feedback: Community inputs help us build new features that are impactful and valuable to users.
- Continuous enhancements: To strive to continuously improve and enhance existing features to provide more value to customers.
Company HQ
Vernier, GE
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Leadership
Olivier Gaudin
(CEO)Co-founded SonarSource in 2008 alongside Freddy Mallet and Simon Brandhof, who have since moved on. Previously worked at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, before becoming Head of Development at Marketing Services company CIFEA DMK.
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