Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Innovation and excellence run through our veins, and you will work with experts who are creating market-leading technologies, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an advanced and sophisticated tech stack.
We are seeking a Principal Engineering Manager for C# Backend Development who thrives on leading by example in both technical direction and people management. This role will require you to be hands-on with the codebase, oversee technical architecture, and guide teams to execute on a high level, while also managing the growth and development of engineers on your team. The ideal candidate will enjoy diving into technical challenges and mentoring others, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership (70%)
- Architect and Design Solutions: Take ownership of technical roadmaps and ensure the systems you’re responsible for are robust, scalable, and aligned with company goals.
- Hands-on Coding: Spend a portion of your time contributing directly to the codebase, performing code reviews, and maintaining high-quality standards across the team.
- Guide Technical Decisions: Work closely with engineers and stakeholders to make informed decisions on technology choices and trade-offs.
- System Performance and Scalability: Drive initiatives to improve system efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
- Mentor and Develop: Provide technical mentorship to your team, helping them grow in their areas of expertise and guiding them through complex technical problems.
People Management (30%)
- Team Leadership: Lead a team of engineers by fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance environment.
- Performance Management: Conduct regular 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and provide feedback to support individual growth and team cohesion.
- Career Development: Identify opportunities for professional development and ensure the team has the resources and support to grow.
- Hiring and Onboarding: Work closely with recruitment to identify and hire top talent and ensure smooth onboarding processes for new hires.
- Agile Leadership: Act as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach for your team, ensuring effective sprint planning, retrospectives, and continuous improvement. Help the team prioritize tasks, maintain focus on deliverables, and drive productivity while adhering to Agile principles.
Required Qualifications:
- Strong experience in building, designing, and optimizing back-end systems using C# and the .NET framework.
- Proven track record in creating scalable microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience with asynchronous programming, dependency injection, and Container solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud-native development principles and integration with cloud platforms such as Azure
- 6+ Years Experience in the Focus
- Scope of Responsibility: Full Product
- Mentor Senior & Principal Engineer & Engineering Managers
- Leadership Experience: Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams, ideally in a technical lead or engineering manager capacity.
- Agile Management: Proven experience in managing teams in an Agile environment, including leading Scrum or Kanban processes and promoting Agile best practices.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to guide both technical discussions and career development conversation
Desired Qualifications:
- Problem Solver: You have a track record of solving difficult technical problems, scaling systems, and improving architecture.
- Collaborative: You thrive in cross-functional environments, working closely with product, design, and other engineering teams.
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
At ABBYY you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 800+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With 30+ nationalities and ages ranging from 21 to 80, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins.
- Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
- We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 30 years of experience in the technology market.
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK in our client portfolio.
- ABBYY has modernized the way companies leverage their data in documents by creating the first low-code/no-code Intelligent Document Processing platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a Marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process.
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
