Engineering Team Lead, Trainline
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Train ticketing platform
Job no longer available
Train ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
We're building the world's no.1 rail platform while empowering greener travel choices, connecting people and places.
Role
Who you are
- Are a team leader with proven line management experience delivering complex projects successfully
- Love developing people and have experience growing engineering teams
- Can inspire your direct reports and create a strong trust-based relationship with them
- Thrive in a diverse, open, and collaborative environment
- Have great communication skills
- Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest, and a team player
- Have a passion to learn new skills
- Are a problem solver who can apply their skills to technical issues
- Advocate for the use of Agile development practices
- Have solid testing practices
What the job involves
- Be the manager for your team, constantly supporting them with their career development through coaching and performance management, ensuring they are all engaged and understand how their work contributes to the wider Trainline strategy
- Engage in technical deliverables, such as features, application monitoring, and bug fixing - although spending less time writing code than engineers
- Manage hiring, interviews, and onboarding of any new team members
- Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success for your team and clearing these to ensure this success
- Own the team’s technical roadmap, negotiate with Product Owners to ensure technical projects are prioritised alongside product features
- Work with Product Owners and Development Managers to manage project scope, ensure the technical deliverables are met, and communicate delivery progress clearly and frequently to all stakeholders
- Identify areas of improvement such as strategic tech debt, and more advanced/efficient technologies that will underpin Trainline growth plans
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Their app is intuitive and well designed. and they're even pioneering paperless travel, allowing you to store your tickets in the app.
They're hyper focused on customer experience and have a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers.
Their customers make 170,000 journeys a day and they sell 200 tickets a minute.
They're continuing to innovate to stay ahead. They're using machine learning to predict price movements and are integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets just by speaking to their phone.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented..."
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2006
$199.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $199.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible working (40% min office attendance)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym memberships
- Private Health and dental Insurance
- Pension (matched contributions)
- Income Protection
- Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
- Learning budget
- Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Free Perkbox subscription
Company values
- Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
- Do Good - We make a positive impact
- Travel Together - We're one team
- Think Big - We are building the future of rail
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jody Ford
(CEO, not founder)Previously Non-exec Director of Moonpig and Photobox Group.
Milena Nikolic
(Chief Technology Officer, not founder)Previously Engineering Director at Google.
Lisa Hillier
(Chief People Officer, not founder)Previously Chief People Officer at Gousto , The Restaurant Group and Just Eat.
Mike Hyde
(Chief Data Officer, not founder)Previously at Meta.
Dave Price
(Chief Product Officer, not founder)Previously at Spotify and GoEuro.
People progressing
Joined as a Product Manager. Promoted to Product Manager after 1 year. Then promoted again to Principal Product Manager after 7 months and is currently Product Director.
Joined as Business Performance Analyst. Promoted to Senior Analyst after 1.5 years. Then promoted again to Commercial Manager after 7 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Trainline
- 💚 Diversity drives us forward We know that having a diverse team is crucial to Trainline’s ongoing success. A team that is diverse in all forms – gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought are key to Trainline being an inclusive environment where every Trainliner can be their true self. We're committed to creating workplaces where everyone belongs, is celebrated and their differences are valued, creating an awesome employee and customer experience. 💚 Meet our Networks Our diversity networks are inclusive communities developed and led by Trainliners, with sponsorship and support from senior leaders. They're all about empowering and supporting underrepresented groups, by providing a safe space to talk, a place to come up with new ideas and a channel for voices to be heard. 🚀 Women in Leadership 💜 Artemis (gender equality) 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+) 🌻 Sunflower (accessibility) 🌍 Ethnic Diversity Network 🐣 Parent & Carers
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