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Job Overview:

Machine Translations team’s mission is to maximize learning impact by making world-class content accessible to all learners in their preferred language. In order to deliver on this mission, we need to design and implement a highly scalable translation infrastructure which will allow us to translate any content into any language at low cost with high quality. As an engineer on this team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex technical challenges, and influence the future roadmap of the team. You will work closely with a cross functional team of product, design, QA, architects, and peers from data engineering, data science, infrastructure and SRE. You must be comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)

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

Bachelors in computer science or relevant degree OR 5+ years of experience as an engineering 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)
Experience (5+ years in product development or a related field, 3+ years in a management position)

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.

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