Engineering Manager

Job Overview:

Coursera is bootstrapping a new development center, with a focus on building a platform team in India. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding team that would not only own a mission-critical charter, but also play a significant role in shaping the culture of the location. We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the prospect of building impactful 0 to 1 products. 

The payment platform team’s mission is to build scalable, robust and flexible platforms enabling learners all across the world to pay using local payment methods. This team is responsible for the end-to-end purchase flow for our enterprise customers looking to buy Coursera services via an online payment method. The payments team manages the entire lifecycle of their payment plan on the platform including but not limited to the enterprise checkout experience, payment processing and integrations, and reporting + reconciliation. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly to Coursera’s top-line growth and help bring high-quality affordable education to millions of learners across the globe

Your responsibilities

• Owning key business objectives and leading your team to deliver the required results
• Technical leadership: balancing effective product feature delivery against managing tech debt and creating a high-leverage product platform to accelerate and improve many different initiatives.
• Hiring: Building a vision of team skill sets, identifying key growth areas, managing the hiring pipeline.
• Mentoring: Acting as a role model, aiding in career development conversations, inspiring engineers, providing feedback.
• Product enablement: Acting as a curator of a vision, discussing needs with stakeholders, prioritizing, driving forward on key initiatives, running sprint planning meetings, and standups.
• Mediating: Investigating interpersonal issues, facilitating crucial conversations.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (3+ years in a management position & 5+ years in product development as an IC)
• Leadership (integrity, transparency, inspiration)
• Technical Excellence (technical rigor, data driven)
• Emotional intelligence (empathy, humility, patience, communication skills)
• Problem-solving (creativity, intelligence)
• Excellence in ambiguous and complex situations (clarity of vision, boldness, grit)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience balancing effective product feature delivery against managing tech debt and creating a high-leverage product platform
• Experience managing a team owning product platforms or components of a product platform, especially if you had firsthand experience creating and formulating the charter and ownership boundaries for such a team. 

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

1. Inclusive Leadership: The Power of Workplace Diversity
   
2. Functional Programming in Scala Specialization

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