Manage, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through regular coaching, career development, performance feedback, and clear expectations, while leading core people management activities including 1:1s, reviews, goal-setting, promotions, compensation decisions, hiring, and resource planning
Build a positive, resilient team culture that promotes psychological safety, collaboration, continuous learning, accountability, and sustainable ways of working, while assessing team health and addressing the root causes of morale, delivery, and organisational issues
Lead delivery by facilitating effective team operating rhythms, removing blockers, improving processes, and using metrics such as velocity, cycle time, throughput, and defect rates to strengthen planning, balance workloads, and improve predictability
Define product roadmaps and technical vision with stakeholders, communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs, and align delivery, architecture, and quality standards with business goals and team capacity
Lead technical decision-making across architecture, engineering standards, code quality, testing, reliability, maintainability, and technical debt reduction, while providing hands-on guidance and championing engineering excellence across the team
Manage cross-team dependencies through clear ownership, integration points, API contracts, co-ordinated releases, documentation, and thoughtful adoption of GAI tools to improve productivity and developer effectiveness
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or other relevant field, plus 5 years of professional experience in a technical software development position
2+ years of recent experience directly managing software engineers, including coaching, performance management, identifying skill gaps, and executing development and improvement plans, along with 2+ years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring engineering talent
2+ years of experience leading Scrum team ceremonies and 3+ years of experience developing web and/or mobile applications, backend services, and test automation in a professional software development organisation
3+ years of experience with tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence, and with large-scale enterprise products and/or distributed SaaS systems
Demonstrated ability to lead teams through ambiguity, pressure, or periods of low morale, while rebuilding trust, improving execution, and creating a sustainable pace of delivery
Strong emotional intelligence, coaching ability, and interpersonal judgement, with the ability to resolve conflict, influence across the wider organisation, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
Skilled in planning, risk management, and organisational skills, including experience managing remote teams across time zones and improving engineering systems, team processes, and operating rhythms to enable healthy, repeatable execution
Benefits
UK Pension Scheme
Private medical and dental insurance
Health & Wellness Reimbursement Program
Unpaid sabbatical leave
Educational Resources
Career & Personal Development Program
Various discount programs (i.e. travel, virtual exercises classes, etc.)
We are a merit-based company with many opportunities to learn, excel and grow your career!