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 6 month contract (outside IR35) that requires you to work on client site 3 days a week in London, Paddington.

Your key accountabilities will include:
• 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.

Your skills and experience will include:

• Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer
• Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend
• Extensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety
of systems and technologies
• Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that
deliver high-quality software.
• Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software
engineering standard methodologies,
• Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.

Java back-end:

Good communication; technical design; experience in a large engineering organisation; pair programming

Coding: Java 21, Micronaut/Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, MongoDB

Testing: BDD, unit, component, integration tests

Deploying: Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure

Operating: Dynatrace or similar observability platform; taking part in an on-call rota"

Competitive day rate