Flightradar24 is Looking for a Web Engineering Manager

Flightradar24 is one of the most successful growth-stage tech companies in Stockholm. Each day more than 2 million aviation enthusiasts visit Flightradar24 (app/website) and our Commercial services team has many of the biggest names in aviation on its customer list.

All this is made possible thanks to our globally distributed network of 30,000+ Raspberry Pi-based radio receivers that feed real-time aircraft data into the Flightradar24 platform. Over a billion database entries are added each month and we are processing several years of historical data totalling many terabytes. Our proprietary flight tracking data is industry leading and even investigative government agencies from around the world rely on it for aviation accident investigations.

We are looking for a hands-on and technical Web Engineering Manager with a passion for web technologies and leading teams to help improve the experience for millions of passionate visitors to Flightradar24.com and its sister site JetPhotos.com. You’ll lead a fully remote group of talented full-stack and front-end developers that are split into two teams. With focus on adding new and exciting features as well as modernizing the existing code base.

The position requires that you are able to work in Stockholm, Sweden.

What you’ll do

• Coach and mentor a distributed team of full-stack and front-end developers
• Promote modern engineering and agile development practices, as well as a collaborative team culture, within your team and across the organization
• Drive continuous improvement and delivery, focusing on quality and timeliness, addressing business needs as well as long-term technical direction, including strategy for handling technical debt
• Identify team staffing needs and recruit outstanding web development talent
• Work closely with the Web Product Owner to support prioritization and coordination in the team
• Own the occasional project
• Report to the CTO

Who you are

• Passionate about building and guiding teams
• Proven track record of leading team(s) of web developers in an agile development environment, preferably including remote team members
• Experience recruiting web developers
• Good understanding of current and emerging web platforms, technologies, frameworks, and tools
• Familiarity with PHP7 and modern front-end code (e.g. ES6, TypeScript, Vue.js or React, and HTML5/CSS3)
• Experience working with high-traffic website/web service and large-scale data sets
• A great communicator with strong written (including technical writing) and spoken English (Swedish is not a requirement for this role)
• Able to work in Stockholm, Sweden
• Bonus points if you have experience developing, documenting, and/or managing public API
• Bonus points if you have release management/coordination experience

About Flightradar24

With over 2 million daily users, Flightradar24 is the world’s most popular flight tracking service. Our app regularly tops the App Store and Google Play charts and Wall Street Journal refers to Flightradar24 as the "Facebook of aviation". We also offer a wide range of commercial services and customers include many of the largest names in aviation.

We're constantly adding new services and improving existing products. To help us meet those challenges, we're looking for creative, collaborative and tech-savvy applicants to join us.

Benefits of working at Flightradar24 include:

• Opportunity to impact a service with millions of end users from all around the world
• Flexible and social work environment with free beverages, fruit, and snacks
• Modern office in the heart of beautiful downtown Stockholm, Sweden
• Being part of a diverse team with 20+ nationalities and 6 continents represente