Technical Engineering Manager

Do you know askblue ? We were born in 2013, and we provide services in the field of information technology. We are looking for Technical Engineering Manager to join our company remotely from Portugal , working on one of our projects. We’re looking for a someone with a solid technology background and ability to still develop code and participate in all technology activities. We are looking for someone excited about delivering quality software that improves the product, someone who understands that working in a small company means that you may need to work with different skills from day to day and help where you are needed most with a pragmatic mindset. Someone not afraid to jump in and learn new skills when the need arises. And someone that brings always a positive mindset to the team. As AI becomes also more important in today’s businesses, we also favor people that have an interest and experience in working with AI systems or even building AI products. We expect the role to be around 50% managing the team, requirements, process, etc.. and 50% being part of the architecture and development team. The role is quite broad but this will make it also extremely interesting because you will have an opportunity to contribute to all aspects of the development of the products. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who works well with our tech stack to join a high performance collaborative global team with the ability to grow in the team in the future. Given the remote working model, we need someone who is highly motivated, a self-starter, well organized and comfortable interacting with a diverse range of colleagues, all of whom will be working remotely. Tasks: Discussing new product features with product and project management teams (or even customers). Manage the work of other developers. Defining the implementation plan and contributing to architectural decisions. Ability to still contribute to the code implementing features in both our Ruby on Rails backend and our Flutter based mobile apps. Support and fix customer issues. Document key aspects of the platform and apps. Work with the QA team to understand defects and to improve the development process. Managing the production environments end-2-end (deployments, troubleshooting in production, database scripting, etc.). Requirements: Excellent knowledge of Software Engineering principles and development best practices. Good knowledge of Ruby on Rails for full-stack web projects. Good knowledge of Flutter and mobile development. Good knowledge of DevOps practices. Good knowledge of Cloud infrastructure. Good knowledge of Kubernetes/containerized environments. Good understanding of security best practices. Good understanding of SQL databases (namely PostgreSQL). Excellent troubleshooting skills. Knowledge of building and consuming APIs/Webservices. Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines. Excellent communication skills – ability to discuss technical topics with technical or non- technical audiences. Comfortable working both individually and together with others to achieve group goals. Experience in an Agile development team. Experience managing developers. Experience with AI coding assistants and other AI-tooling. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other Engineering discipline. Work Arrangement: Remote (from Portugal). Offer: Health Insurance; 3 and a half days of leave per year + 22 vacation days; Unlimited access to Udemy. If you are interested in the opportunity, upload your CV or send it to with the reference in the subject. askblue – where business meets technology