Job Description

• As a functional manager, your role will also include optimising and reviewing the performance of teams, with an aim to increase the quality of engineering as a functional leader. To help us scale our engineering teams effectively, you will have close involvement with our hiring process.

What’s you’ll do

• Inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering team.
• Manage and drive procurement for third party products that your team depends on.
• Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality in own and partner teams.
• Prioritise and optimise for highest speed in execution.
• Take calculated risks, collaborate with different stakeholders and clearly communicate short and long term consequences.
• Continuously develop relationships with product, engineering and key stakeholders across teams and domains.
• Influence and drive software design and architecture.

You have

• Bachelors Degree (or above) in Computer Science/Maths/Physics/similar
• Experience building and leading a significant software engineering team(s) within a scaling organisation
• Strong software architecture skills
• Strong coding ability with core skills in Python, Javascript or Java/Scala.
• Experience building and scaling high achieving engineering teams
• Big picture thinking – correctly diagnosing problems and building innovative solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner closely with Product Owners and Business Heads