Our mission at Netguru is to help entrepreneurs and innovators shape the world through beautiful software. As Certified B Corporation®, we offer a safe, inclusive and productive environment for all team members, and we’re always open to feedback. If you want to work from home and be a full-time employee, great – you can apply right away.
Joining Netguru means:
- Enjoying flextime and flexplace: adjust your daily schedule to your individual needs!
- We decide together and value equality: there is no strong hierarchy in our teams, and every opinion is more than welcome,
- We work for global clients who almost always require innovation and new ways of solving problems,
- Processes based on Scrum and Agile methodologies,
- Dev-friendly processes such as Continuous Integration and Code Review,
- Constant development of your hard and soft skills (e.g. internal webinars and international and local conferences),
- Having a smooth start: your leader and a buddy will support you and mentor you.
- Working on the best equipment: we will provide you with a MacBook and additional accessories for your computer to make your work even more efficient and comfortable.
Requirements
- Min. 1-year hands-on experience in leading at least a mid-sized team (10 people or more)
- Experience in working within HR, Project Management, Scrum, or other IT-related functions for at least 3 years
- Experience in extensive cooperation with technical teams (of any kind but not limited to just one, short event) resulting in at least a basic understanding of modern software technology
- Very good command of written and spoken Polish and English,
- Outstanding communicating and listening skills; being able to run 1-on-1 meetings as well as team meetings; not afraid of difficult topics; matters you’re not an expert in,
- Can develop strong working relationships across various functions (sales, project management, software development teams, etc.) and communicate with them efficiently,
- Highly organized and can work with multiple threads but at the same time is responsive to challenges and changing needs,
- Able to provide guidance and advice on personal development matters,
- Can set clear goals for others and evaluate the outcomes and general performance,
- Experience with working with data and metrics.
Job Description:
People Side Responsibilities:
- managing 20-30 developers
- supporting full employee-life-cycle inside the company:
- recruitment
- onboarding,
- learning & development (career path included)
- reward & performance management
- recognition,
- benefits,
- offboarding – conduct dedicated checklist
- doing regular (minimum cadence:: once a month) calls (1o1, o3s) with team members whilst monitoring their:
- progress of their skills and our data on their skills and potential assignments capabilities
- happiness index & overall well-being & potential flight risks
- holidays and sick-leaves
- working hours and overtime
- performing f2f (performance review) process
- working together with Staff Engineering Manager on:
- being involved in soft skills interviews and support recruiting-related decisions,
- making budget allocation decisions (both recognition related, development related, salary related – any budgets available for the teams)
- analyzing, supporting, and facilitating business escalation cases coming from our projects
Scheduling Side Responsibilities:
- assigning the optimal internal talent candidates to work in projects – taking into consideration both: project requirements and our talent capabilities – in our commercial projects and internal assignments
- handling assignments for any rotations, changes, or holiday-replacements
- support and facilitate together with necessary stakeholders assignment-related conflicts: multi-bookings, end/start dates mismatch, lack of talent – propose own resolutions based on data
- working together with Staff Engineering Manager on:
- planning and analyzing the future of the pipeline and its potential candidates
- defining what we can handle internally, externally and when we can recruit internally
- managing our internal talent work – bench management, and drive efforts into direction aligned with company needs
- being our processes guardian and keeping data accurate: dates, deprecated-assignments, pipelines cleanup, profiles and having
- acting as a trusted advisor and having an overview on available talent, skills, and capabilities of given technology stack – and help with our scheduling processes inside the company
Benefits
- Access to the WorkSmile platform offering benefits adapted to your preferences:
- Multisport card
- Private health insurance package,
- Life insurance,
- And hundreds of other options to choose from 15 categories (shopping, leisure, travel, food, etc.)
- Discounts on Apple products,
- Various internal initiatives: webinars, knowledge sharing sessions, internal conferences.