About the role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead multiple core product areas within the Access Essentials function.

This key role involves building and leading a team of talented, passionate backend Java software engineers responsible for developing mission-critical and innovative identity and security products, specifically focusing on platform features for authentication and authorisation. This is an exciting opportunity to grow a team and deliver essential identity and security capabilities on Okta Secure Identity Platform.

What youll be doing

At a high level, youll be managing your teams goals, contributing to product strategy and helping to develop your employees. More specifically, you will -

• Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
• Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product technical) and roadmap for the team.
• Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems. Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.
• Participate in and enable key team processes to organize deliver key projects with high business impact.
• Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent.
• Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.

Required Skills, Attitude and Knowledge:

• 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
• Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to build teams from ground-up, managing performance, mentoring and coaching teams
• Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.
• 7-10 years of prior software development experience with Java or other backend technologies. While this role is a people management one, youll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.
• Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation release orchestration using gating feature flags configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.
• Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.