
Engineering Manager
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Technical Leadership:
- Own a domain/subdomain and set the 0-6 month technical roadmap.
- Work with senior engineers to ensure architectural consistency.
- Be accountable for the reliability, availability, and security of your systems.
- Ensure all systems have appropriate support, SLAs, on-call rotas, and documentation.
- Delivery Management:
- Be responsible for your team's delivery, including planning sprints and overseeing project health.
- Assess the criticality of unplanned work, minimizing context-switching and unnecessary pressure.
- Balance team capacity with roadmap demands.
- Instill a sense of urgency to find the right balance between velocity and quality.
- Ensure all incidents are owned.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Act as the primary liaison between engineering and product, partnering with your product counterpart to ensure full alignment.
- Communicate progress and escalate issues effectively.
- People Management:
- Lead and manage a team of engineers at varying levels, creating a stable environment for the group.
- Be responsible for managing the team's performance and well-being, initiating corrective actions when needed.
- Provide coaching, performance reviews, and career pathing.
- Create a culture of ownership and feedback.
- Demonstrate the ability to hire, grow, and retain high-performing engineers.
- Process and Performance:
- Ensure that company processes are effectively and timely executed.
- The primary measurement of success is at the team level.
- Be accountable for team KPIs (velocity, quality, on-time delivery, morale, staffing).
- You may manage a limited budget for tools or specific project costs.
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role leading and supporting engineers.
- Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
- Experience with agile development processes.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Passion for technology and innovation.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work on challenging and rewarding projects.
- Collaborative and supportive work environment.
- Be part of a dynamic and growing company.