Engineering Manager

If you are motivated by building teams and team members' competencies, excited about leading a central team, working with many different teams and seeking to have an impact across an entire company - then this role is for you!

We are looking for an engineering manager to lead a team of developers within Developer Foundations. The services the team provides are in use by large parts of Schibsted such as FINN, Blocket, VG, Aftonbladet and Helthjem.

In Schibsted's Developer Foundations team, we enable developers throughout Schibsted to work efficiently, also with a focus on cost, innovation, and by advocating for secure and reliable software development processes. We do this by providing CI/CD tooling, Kubernetes runtime environments, Metrics and Logging services, and working closely with the teams all over the company.

You will be part of the Developer Foundations leadership team, and you will be responsible for a diverse team composed of developers, SREs, and DevOps engineers. You will help ensure we are working on the correct things and enable the team to focus on providing value to Schibsted and our brands (55+ and growing!). We are looking for someone who is familiar with the leading by example leadership mindset.

In this role you will:

• Manage a central team of engineers with backgrounds from different disciplines within software development
• Help build reliable and scalable solutions that will be used by brands and teams in different parts of Schibsted
• Work in a distributed environment with engineers based in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
• Develop people through coaching and mentoring. Conduct regular 1:1, goal setting, and feedback conversations with engineers to ensure their well-being and team health, and support them in their performance and growth. Continuously work to improve inclusion and belonging on your team and within our organisation
• Attract, onboard, and retain talent
• Participate in the manager forum with other people managers in Schibsted Data & Tech

About you:

• You have previous experience as an engineering manager
• You thrive on developing people and building a diverse and inclusive team
• You are an effective communicator and bring strong feedback skills to your team
• You have experience guiding the continuous improvement of processes and technology
• You are interested in driving any kind of improvements (processes, collaboration, etc.) for your team
• You have and take responsibility for the success of the team
• You have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• You're able to move forward when the path is not necessarily clear, and you bring your team with you in the discussions and challenges
• Your leadership values are in line with Schibsted's: people-driven, agile, collaborative, and entrepreneurship

Apply with us today, to learn more!

Please note that due to summer vacation - applications will be mainly processed from August