Engineering Manager (Contract, Outside IR35)

• We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise and operate with excellence
• Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products
• You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture
• This is an initial 12 month contract
• Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects
• Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project
  scope, goals, and deliverables
• Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards, and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team’s technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap
• Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs
• Tech Stack:
• Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
• React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular
• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
• SQL Server, MongoDB
• Ignite, Redis

Benefits

• Health and wellness
• Conferences and talks
• Training and learning opportunities
• Inspiring offices or work from anywhere
• Top technology and other resources
• Community and personal development
• Financial wellbeing
• Flexibility and time off
• Family support and care
• Team meetings and company trips- Extensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety
  of systems and technologies
• Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software
  engineering standard methodologies,
• Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend
• Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that
  deliver high-quality software
• Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it
• Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer