Engineering Manager

Requirements

• 2+ years experience of engineering management of product aligned teams
• Experience of working in a cloud native environments, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP, golang/python)
• Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with Product Managers and Client representatives. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy
• You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves

Desirable

• Knowledge of banking / finance
• Interest in working on client-facing projects, conducting scoping and defining deliverables
• You’ve previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams
• You’ve previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes
• You’ve previously worked in a hypergrowth environment

What You'll Be Doing

• Working with your team closely with Product Management and Client Services on defining and delivering our product roadmap
• Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews
• Measuring your team’s impact
• Contributing to product strategy
• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes
• Developing engineers in your team and help them in their career development
• Leading by example: involvement with hands-on technical work

Perks and Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Voluntary Pension Plan (match up to 5%)
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• Comprehensive Life Insurance
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• Two charity days a year
• Daily Meal Allowance
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidized by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress