Looking to be part of a team that develops leading solutions with proven innovations currently in production?

Be part of System73, a company with a portfolio of disruptive products in the content delivery and media streaming industries. We are expanding internationally beyond our core team currently located at our lovely office in Tenerife (Canary Islands) to ensure we deliver high-quality products and services to both our current and future international customers.

Having grown during the past 5 years from a small startup, we are looking for even more growth bringing more exceptional individuals to our Engineering team. We have engagements with top players and clients in the industry with global audiences, with plans on expanding our operations with new and exciting products. You can check part of our current portfolio on our webpage: www.system73.com

Although this position is full-time, we are very flexible with work schedules, with the possibility of offering a remote position as we see fit. Be ahead of the competition with us!

What you will find in this position

As a Project Manager, you will lead a team of extraordinary people focused on shaping our products, playing a key role in managing how to effectively deliver to production key elements of our global mission. You will have the opportunity to introduce innovation in both current and future products, working with state-of-the-art topics and technologies. As a manager you will be a mentor for the team, guiding the tasks’ definitions with the ownership and accountability of the execution of complex deliverables through technical insights, organization, and productive collaboration. At the same time, you will closely collaborate with other managers and teams as part of the delivery strategy of our organization for existing products and exciting new projects. In this context, you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaboratively develop a team vision and roadmap with your team, technical advisors, and product counterparts.
• Take the lead in coordinating the successful execution of your team’s mission according to the goals of our organization.
• Cultivate a culture of excellence and psychological safety to build inclusive, productive, healthy teams: you enjoy motivating and bringing a group of people together.
• Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent: thrive on nurturing the growth and success of others.

What we expect from you

• At least 2 years of engineering management experience with a track record of successfully building and leading inclusive, highly productive teams related to the IT field.
• Good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, comfortable working within a team.
• Problem-solving skills, ability to think out of the box, with strong competency in engineering fundamentals.
• Be comfortable driving decisions and uniting other members of the organization when there is ambiguity, disagreements, or conflicting constraints.
• High technical curiosity and willingness to learn.
• Be sharp, willing to take challenges for you and your team.
• Proactive to improve both your and your teams’ workflows.
• Be organized, able to manage and move forward, on time, the missions assigned to the team according to our global roadmap from a given set of technical requirements.
• Software development background. Familiarity with microservices architectures and CI/CD workflows is desirable.
• Ability to see the big picture and to foresee the implications in the long term when applying changes and possible improvements as part of the software development cycle.
• Whilst remote working is fully supported and encouraged, and we are flexible in several aspects, it is also important to start the day in tandem with the team. The team starts the day at 9 A.M. Western Europe Time (WET/WEST) with a standup meeting.

Nice to have, in no particular order

• Good writing and documentation skills.
• Experience managing remote teams.
• Experience related to any part of the content delivery industry would be greatly appreciated.
• Some knowledge in video streamings, such as HLS, DASH, and the related production/delivery chain.
• Background and knowledge on network protocols, WebRTC, and general P2P technologies and concepts.
• Experience working and applying Agile/Scrum development processes and/or related methodologies.
• Experience in working with developer-facing or API products.
• Experience using software containers, container orchestration, and microservices.
• Knowledge of version control tools and modern CI/CD systems.
• Knowledge of Cloud environments, especially AWS and Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of some observability tools (monitoring/logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc).