Engineering Manager

• Manage a team of software engineers, including hiring, mentoring, conducting performance reviews, and supporting professional development
• Work with product managers to define requirements and scope projects
• Develop schedules, estimates, and status reports for engineering projects
• Ensure engineering best practices are followed for coding standards, code reviews, testing, and more
• Identify and resolve issues with productivity, product quality, and team dynamics
• Drive process improvements on the engineering team
• Set and track OKRs and engineering team goals
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other departments on project planning and requirements
• Optimise development workflows to improve team efficiency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and industry best practices
• Foster an inclusive and innovative engineering culture focused on solving problems
• Manage team budgets, staffing needs, and resource allocation
• Evangelise the product and technology to attract and hire top talent
• Ensure software reliability, security, scalability, and performance
• Implement continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• Promote knowledge sharing and technical mentoring within the team
• Develop training programs to advance team skills and capabilities
• Champion automation, tools, and infrastructure to boost productivity
• Troubleshoot critical production issues and outages
• Monitor software metrics and track progress toward goals
• Liaise between the engineering teams and executive leadership
• Contribute technical expertise during product planning and road mapping
• Advocate for team needs, empowering engineers to do their best work
• Coordinate effective handoff of systems and projects to other teams
• Discuss emerging technologies and consider their application
• Audit existing architecture and provide recommendations for improvement
  

Essential Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering products
• Experience leading and mentoring software engineers
• Expertise in current software development technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
• Strong technical knowledge and coding abilities in one or more programming languages
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to influence decisions
• An understanding of web standards, accessibility, UI/UX principles and responsive design