Shape the team’s technical excellence by driving sound architectural decisions
Lead a team of around 4–6 software engineers
Guide the team toward pragmatic architectural choices that balance scalability, security, cost, and simplicity
Establish and reinforce coding standards, patterns, and best practices through thoughtful code reviews
Maintain clear, actionable incident playbooks and improve monitoring and alerting
Break down work into well scoped increments and support predictable delivery through strong planning
Champion reliability by ensuring services meet SLOs
Automate manual or repetitive processes to increase engineering efficiency
Communicate technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to partners
Lead and develop a high-performing team, motivating and inspiring your team to meet targets
Ensure all team members have clear, up-to-date Individual Development Plans (IDPs)

Strong experience in a software engineering team leadership role
Experience of working in a shared responsibility leadership environment (Engineering, Product, Design and Data)
Experience of leveraging AI and LLM tooling and developing AI-powered customer-facing features
Ability to use data and anecdotal evidence to drive change
Ability to pivot as priorities and needs change without losing sight of long-term strategy
Full Stack / Backend: Background in highly scalable systems, preferably built in Ruby on Rails
Front End: Strong background in developing business system web applications, preferably with some experience of Ember
Building systems on the AWS stack preferable

Engineering Manager I

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