Marketplace Engineering Manager

Location: Full-remote in Europe

Moodle with us!

At Moodle, we’re a mighty group of passionate people based in several countries around the world. We’re united by our dedication to enabling best-practice online learning, whether within educational institutions or workplaces, and we are looking for someone who aligns with our values and goals.

If you are an Engineering Manager who enjoys learning while having fun as we advance our mission, read on!

What your new job looks like

The Moodle Marketplace is a centralised, peer-to-peer e-commerce platform that connects creators of Moodle plugins and integrations with Moodle users who are looking for solutions to enhance and extend their Moodle sites. It improves on the existing Moodle Plugins Directory, addressing its limitations while delivering new features and benefits. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Marketplace team.

You will have the opportunity to be part of the new team that will deliver the Marketplace solution and contribute to Moodle’s overall success. You will provide team leadership as well as technical leadership, helping the team make effective decisions, ensuring the quality of work, and meeting agreed outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Managing and leading a team of mid- to senior-level developers, including participating in hiring and onboarding, conducting performance reviews, providing technical guidance, and supporting professional development.
• Creating a psychologically safe environment where team members demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and engagement, openness to new ideas, and learning from mistakes.
• Planning and co-ordinating work for the team, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
• Facilitating task estimation, sprint ceremonies, and team planning sessions.
• Create a ‘bigger picture’ understanding within the team and assisting in defining solutions that enable the product to address key issues facing the business and the end-user
• Providing guidance and strategic decision-making to ensure the scalability, maintainability and performance of the system.
• Organising and overseeing the discovery process for new features and enhancements
• Overseeing the implementation of initiatives to ensure alignment with overall architecture and quality standards
• Delivering on product commitments and continually seeking to improve productivity.
• Hands-on coding and development when needed, setting a high bar for code quality, performance, and reliability.
• Actively participating in code reviews.

Requirements

• Either tertiary qualification in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience working in a large-scale development environment
• Proven experience creating cohesive, functional and efficient teams as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead
• Demonstrated experience leading a productive software development team, creating a positive and supportive culture where engineers have thrived.
• Experience conducting performance reviews, creating development plans, and supporting career progression of engineers.
• Experience leading sprint and increment planning, backlog grooming, and capacity planning in collaboration with Product, Technical Architect, UX Design and Research.
• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD.
• Experience integrating with external services like payment gateways.
• Experience with technical discovery, feasibility analysis, and breaking down complex technical requirements into actionable tasks.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable and well-documented code, maintaining high-quality standards.

Desired skills

• Proficiency in PHP.
• Proficiency in JS (ES6).
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with Symphony and Doctrine ORM.
• Experience building RESTful APIs endpoints using Symfony.
• Experience integrating Symfony with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js).
• Familiarity with modular approach for software design.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven design.
• Experience designing and implementing data structures.

Required non-technical skills

• Fluent in English
• Comfortable working within remote-first teams
• Collaborative team player
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage a team to meet tight deadlines with competing priorities.
• Understand and keep up to date with industry-wide software development best practices
• Proactive solutions-focussed attitude, willingness to speak up and share ideas

Benefits

What's in it for you?

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

In addition to this you can expect:

• Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world.

• A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’
• Working with a global team on a worldwide platform that makes a real difference.
• As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.

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Learn more about Moodle

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide.

Find out more about us on our website.

At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job. Learn more in our Diversity Inclusion Charter.