Engineering Manager

We are currently hiring for an Engineering Manager. Our Client is a leading software firm that enables higher education institutions to increase student success and graduation rates through community engagement. They are committed to improving student success and college graduation rates worldwide by crafting digital experiences that build community and increase student engagement. They are a SaaS company with 525+ campus partners and 4.5M+ students actively using the platform. They have a diverse and world class team poised for their next phase of rapid growth.

As the Engineering Manager, you will be overseeing the engineering operations in the UK. You will help lead a team of talented and highly collaborative engineers to ensure that the platform is reliable, scalable, maintainable, and provides the most value to customers.  They work in an agile environment to deliver a full fledged product in a short cycle. 

In terms of the role responsibilities, you will:

• Monitor the architecture

• Provide technical decision making support

• Align with the global teams NL, North America and France) on the impact of technical choices. 

• Providing insight into the technical impact of functional requirements and aligning these

• with the business

• Implement the development standards within the team

• Hold regular 1:1s with engineer team members

• Help make decisions on technical issues and implementation details

• Help to manage escalations quickly

• Help unblock and move the team forward 

• Hold the team's engineering leads accountable to scrum artifacts

• Review code with peers focused on improving team skills

You should:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience, in a leadership engineering role such as Technical Lead, Product Manager, or Software Team Lead

• Experience with software design and architecture

• Experience with relational databases

• Experience with DevOps; Cloud and container solutions such as GCP or AWS

• Agile working and thinking attitude

• Experience with python or java based web applications is a plus

• Have extensive experience working with and leading mobile app engineering teams

• Leadership experience managing teams that build & maintain business-critical web applications at scale, including the build and deployment process

• Have strong writing and verbal communication skills, with experience leading an engineering team in a remote or distributed team environment

Bonus if you

• Experience working in a startup or the tech industry

• Proven ability to work on a global scale collaboratively

What is offered with the role:

• A competitive salary, based on experience

• Health Benefits

• Company laptop

• Flexible working hours

• Remote working opportunities

• A diverse and friendly team, all equally driven to make them an even greater success

● Opportunity for personal development, growth and to own initiatives to achieve success

They live their values everyday through their work. They are looking for individuals who share their values and will:

• Put Student Success First: They exists to improve student success. As the product marketer, you will work to ensure that our product is successfully adopted and utilized by our 525+ campuses, and with every decision, always put the student at heart

• Accomplish More As a Team: Our team here  is made up of passionate, hardworking people who support, care for, and challenge each other to achieve wins together. We learn from each other and embrace creative tension to ensure the best idea wins. We collaborate to solve problems together

• Have a Learning Mentality: We are looking for intellectually curious people who never stop learning and growing and embrace change, which is essential at a continually evolving tech company. You will continuously push yourself and others around you to improve and develop

• Move Fast and Innovate: To be successful, you will need to be self-motivated and work autonomously. You will need to have excellent judgment and decision-making skills to solve problems and move forward quickly

Remote in UK,  preferred- Merseyside, England