We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead one of our engineering tribes of multiple squads. As a leader in our engineering department, you will be responsible for guiding the teams through the development lifecycle and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services. You will also be a key advisor and contributor to the Director of Engineering, helping to continue the transformation of the organisation.

What You’re Great At

• Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track.
• You’re organized and efficient
• Articulate complex problems simply
• A strategic thinker - able to understand and develop where we are, where we want to get to and how we can get there
• Strong soft skills & ability to work with and influence multiple teams
• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing, dynamic team
• A people-first approach
• A growth mindset: you love learning challenging yourself

What You Must Have Experience In

• Some hands-on coding experience
• Working with Agile methodologies (ideally several)

What You’re Good At

• You would have a value-driven and principle approach rather than a dogmatic one
• You understand architecture and can take part in discussions
• You look outside your team responsibilities and try to improve the organisation as a whole

What technical skills are nice to have but not essential

• At least one of Java, Golang, Kotlin, Python or a similar programming language
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferable)
• Mapping of platform architectures
• System design
• Strong understanding of security best practices
• Kubernetes or a similar container orchestrator
• Kafka or similar event bus technology
• Database architecture

Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier

• Diverse background, working in different roles
• Seeing the bigger picture and grasping the full scope of the business.
• Be a strong advocate for DevOps, agile and lean software development practices.
• A drive to always leave things better than how you found them: Code, processes, documentation, interactions with people and every other aspect of your work life.