UI/UX Engineering Manager – Platform (Romania, Remote)

 

At CrowdStrike we’re on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves, but do so in a future-proof manner. We’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization and people – clearly confirming our industry leadership and our special culture driving it. We also offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. So if you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to stop breaches and protect people globally, let’s talk.
 

About the Role:

As a UX Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike, you’ll be responsible for the workload management, recruitment, wellbeing, and professional growth of your team members. You’ll help foster an open and collaborative environment and support systems to help your team succeed in their roles. You will work with a talented and dedicated team to build and maintain the user interface for the Falcon platform to provide our customers with a high-quality user experience that customers around the world use 24/7 to protect their systems from the most sophisticated adversaries. 

We’re a highly collaborative, friendly, inclusive and diverse group that prizes collaboration over competition. We provide opportunities to learn new skills, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to the direction of both the team and the products for which we're responsible. We work in a distributed, remote-first, high-trust environment where you manage your own time and have the flexibility to balance your work and personal life.

The candidate will join the Platform team. CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform is responsible for the building blocks which power applications that “Stop breaches”, as well as supporting the foundational tools, products, and services used by our customers worldwide. These features support numerous internal product groups and external partners and include authentication, host management, workflows, and partner integration among others.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager that is excited to build an extensible platform, and help shape and grow the existing tools, services, and frameworks that directly impact the user experience of our customers worldwide.

Our JavaScript framework is Ember, but if you've used React, Angular, or Vue.js, you'll feel right at home, and we’ll help you get comfortable with both Ember and our codebase. Since we only support evergreen browsers, we can push the boundaries of what’s possible on the web platform while working with truly massive amounts of data. Our ideal candidates are sensitive to the needs of the users and love to find solutions in a unique and dynamic problem space. 
 

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead a team of engineers building web application UIs written in JavaScript using Ember.js

• Manage team workload, project resourcing & coordination in a fast-paced, highly distributed environment.

• Support wellbeing of team members - providing support & guidance focused primarily on resourcing, progress, and soft skills. Gather feedback from others, provide coaching as needed & in collaboration with senior engineers to advance team member skill sets.

• Lead and coordinate recruitment process from initial contact to offer

• Maintain visibility into the product roadmap and share that information back to other managers and team members. 

• Participate in team activities, such as quarterly roadmap planning, to prioritize projects on the roadmap based on availability of humans to do the work and business objectives that need to be met.

• Have fun solving difficult problems
   

You have…

• Strong engineering track-record focusing on front-end development & technologies (JS/CSS/HTML) and modern frameworks and approaches.

• Experience mentoring & supporting people and teams with empathy & professionalism.

• Experience tracking and managing multiple projects.
   

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of and experience with technical teams, cybersecurity, and startups strongly preferred.

• Experience in remote-first environments.

• Experience or familiarity with Ember.

         Our new colleague will work remotely during Covid and then from the Bucharest office (having also the option to work from home) or from Romania (Remote).

Interviewing process: online

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Working with the latest technologies
• Training budget (certifications, conferences)
• Flexible work hours and remote friendly environment
• Wellness programs
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats
• Peer recognition
• Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation
• Regular team activities, including happy hours, community service events

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems so we strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.