Engineering Manager

The Job

The engineering team is only a year old. In that time we have scaled from zero to twenty engineers and we are building a greenfield platform that will transform the business. We develop with a mixture of Javascript, Typescript and Elm. Our platform is AWS Serverless based alongside a modern DevOps stack and Snowflake data warehouse. For more details check us out on stackshare.io

As our Senior Engineering Manager you will be accountable for the deliveries of all of our Full Stack, DevOps and Quality Engineers. A typical day might include:

• Dipping into squad agile ceremonies spotting opportunities to bridge and enable
• Driving our technical strategy and ensuring it aligns with the needs of the business
• Dealing with stakeholders across product, operations, commercial and senior leadership
• Ensuring our technical roadmap includes debt recovery, infrastructure and quality improvements
• Line management and mentoring of our engineering leads
• Measurement and improvement with DORA metrics, SLOs and OKRs.
• Managing the run cost of our platform using FinOps principles
• Small pieces of coding that prove new ground, enable the team or exemplify good practice

About You

Essential

• A background as an individual contributor and still have an opinion
• You have lead and managed teams
• You have also built and retained new teams
• You are comfortable traversing strategic to fine-grained in the same conversation
• Diverse architectural experience (multi-channel content / service based / data pipelines)
• You know which levers accelerate delivery
• Experience of accelerating / de-risking delivery with DevOps practices (TDD, CD pipelines, configuration management etc..)
• Expert in one part of the stack and proficient in the rest
• Critical thinking on when to build vs buy
• Cloud native in AWS, GCP or Azure

Desirable

• Experience of taking teams from start-up to scale-up
• Experience throughout the stack with Node, Typescript and Vue
• Knowledge of SRE practices for incident management & blame free post-mortems
• Your full stack extends to Serverless and Kubernetes