Engineering Manager

The Role

As our Engineering Manager you'll play a pivotal role as a servant leader, directing, encouraging, and driving the team to excel. Your expertise will guide technical direction, mentor the team, and contribute hands-on. Day to day, you'll lead teams, design technical aspects, prioritise tasks, and support leadership while fostering best engineering practices. In essence, you'll be the catalyst for innovation and success within our engineering department.

Day to day responsibilities 

• Leading multiple agile teams to implement features that deliver significant impact for our customers.
• Designing technical aspects and architecture of user stories and plans for delivery to production.
• Prioritising technical debt alongside product deliverables to achieve the best outcomes for Zilch.
• Supporting the Head of Engineering and CTO and interacting with key senior business stakeholders.
• Take ownership for overall delivery cadence and quality for your teams.
• Identifying and removing obstacles and bottlenecks from the team.
• Drive adoption of best engineering practices to improve delivery.
• Mentor and coach team of engineers in agile and good practice.
• Organising effective knowledge transfer, training, and documentation

What we're looking for...

• Someone with bags of energy, is happy, passionate and loves helping development teams deliver.
• A person who lives and breathes agile and obsesses about continual Improvement.
• A servant leader who can direct, encourage, assist, track, cajole, and drive a team to want to excel.
• A technologist who can guide technical direction, mentor a team, and get their hands dirty.
• A Bachelor and/or master’s degree.
• 3+ years’ experience leading and managing software engineering teams, including coaching teams on agile practices.
• Experience in Kanban or other immediate type delivery.
• Previous experience in developing either Java, React, C# etc.
• 2+ years communicating to key stakeholders.

Bonus skills

• Experience in solutions architecture.
• Experience in managing projects.
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS or equivalent)
• Experience in working with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits

Compensation & Savings

• Pension scheme - 5% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution
• Death in Service scheme - 3x your annual basic salary to nominated beneficiaries
• Income Protection - up to 75% of annual basic salary to cover long term injury or illness

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance including;
• GP consultations (video, telephone or face-to-face)
• Prescribed medication
• In-patient, day-patient and out-patient care
• Mental health support
• Optical, dental & audiological cover
• Physiotherapy
• Advanced cancer cover
• Menopause support
• Employee Assistance Programme including
• Unlimited mental health sessions
• 24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy
• 24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support
• Savings & discounts on everyday shopping
• 1:1 personalised wellbeing consultations
• Gym membership discounts

Family Friendly Policies

• Enhanced maternity pay
• Enhanced paternity pay
• Enhanced adoption pay

Zilch App Rewards

• 5% cashback in Zilch rewards on purchases through the app
• £200 Zilch rewards bonus for WFH set up

Learning & Development

• Professional Qualifications
• Professional Memberships
• Learning Suite for e-courses
• Internal Training Programmes
• FCA & Regulatory training

Workplace Perks

• Hybrid Working 3 days in office
• Casual dress code
• Work related social events
• Free fruit, snacks, and refreshments in the office