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Tech Recruitment • Product Recruitment • Science Recruitment • Consulting • Talent Acquisition
11 - 50
Engineering Manager
September 6, 2023
🏡 Remote – Anywhere in the UK
techruiter.
we are your answer to building teams that have the power to transform your company. we are techruiter.
Tech Recruitment • Product Recruitment • Science Recruitment • Consulting • Talent Acquisition
11 - 50
Description
• Leading a team of 3-6 engineers, focusing on outcome over output • Spending 40%-60% of your time deep in the code, leading by example on code and testing best practices. You are not afraid to dive into very technical conversations. • Challenging the team on scope or sequencing to deliver faster, while still decreasing technical debt. • Coaching, mentoring and developing high-performing engineers. • Ensuring high psychological safety, where collaboration and equal voice are cornerstones of the team culture. • Partnering with other engineering managers on cross cutting initiatives like hiring or onboarding. • Building good relationships with your stakeholders to establish a roadmap that delivers value to our members. • Releasing small changes regularly to get fast feedback from our users • Optimising application performance and ensuring smooth user experience across different platforms and devices. • Providing constructive feedback through code reviews and regular 1:1s • Staying updated with the latest trends and advancements to proactively bring new ideas and approaches to the team. • Thinking longer term when solving challenges to ensure we build scalable, maintainable, observable systems that will continue to meet our needs as we grow.
Requirements
• Are experienced in leading a distributed full-stack team, in a fast pace environment. • Are someone who takes ownership and is comfortable with ambiguity. You provide clarity and make things happen. • Have the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • A servant leader who leads by example, finding opportunities for others to grow and shine. • Someone who enjoys stepping back and seeing problems from a different perspective in order to find innovative solutions. • Have great communication skills, both verbal and in writing. • Have an appetite to work closely with our product team to test and release new ideas fast. • Have experience with paired programming. • Are data-driven. You challenge teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value. • Have strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Pay close attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality code. • An incredible growth mindset. You read books, watch talks, listen to podcasts and are never afraid to try new things. • Experience building mobile apps. • Experience with scalability (backend, data pipelines). • Experience working with Support teams, and understand best practices for handling Support at scale. • Experience working with payments and finance. • Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) and UI component libraries (e.g., Material-UI, Ant Design). • Experience deploying machine learning in production.
Benefits
• Remote-first - work from home, pop into our London/Boston offices, or work within the EU; you have flexibility to choose your own place of work and work flexibly • Stock options - we want everyone to be rewarded for contribution to our growth • Paid time-off - on top of any national / bank holidays, you get 28 days off (25 plus 1 life-event and 2 company-wide reset days) • Enhanced parental leave - Enhanced parental leave, family planning and pregnancy/adoption loss leave - adding on to the statutory offering, we know how important it is to be supportive at times that matter • Private healthcare and life assurance - flexible options to choose what fits • Health and wellbeing - Employee Assistance Program, Spill mental health support, Cycle to Work, yoga and more • Pension - paying monthly and offering flexibility to top your pension up • Allocated social, WFH and Growth (L&D) budgets from the day you join • Plenty of learning and social opportunities
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