Engineering Manager
We are seeking a highly motivated Engineering Manager to join the Leap in! engineering group (part of the broader Attain HealthTech engineering group). The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded technical leader able to work as a technical, team and people leader.
This role reports to the CTO and is responsible for leading multiple Engineering squads both in technical direction and architecture as well as delivery and stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities
Work as part of the senior engineering leadership team to help build a quality engineering organisation
Assist squad leaders to maintain their backlog providing assistance with architecture and stakeholder management
Collaborate with engineering practice leads to improve core engineering practices across backend, front end, infrastructure and quality practices
Help to monitor squads delivery cadence and work with a team on improving on their efficiency
Promote sound, modern engineering practices and tools within the squads (TDD, pair programming, efficient branching strategies, etc)
Teach and mentor your squads on making sound technology choices, software design practices and the ways of working
Mentor and grow Engineers under your care
Collaborate on and recommend sound DevOps practices in the teams
Manage direct reports - Engineering Team Leads in each of your squads
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Strong technical background in general engineering
Demonstrated experience in delivering large engineering initiatives across multiple teams
Strong technical underpinnings - either through a bachelor of computer science degree or demonstrated self learning
Previous team lead experience
Good understanding of modern CD and software operations practices such as trunk-based development, 12 factor application principles in practice, utilisation of monitoring tools like Datadog, etc.
Excellent communication skills and team-oriented mindset
Have a ‘leave it better than you found it’ attitude towards code