Engineering Manager, Lendable

• You thrive by leading and evolving cross-functional teams. You can draw on your experience of bringing together product, design, data science, domain experts and engineers to operate as one super-effective team. You have proven skills that help the team navigate and lean into the different perspectives and priorities each function brings to the team

Desirable

• Support the engineers you manage in your team through 1:1s, where you will have great career coaching sessions, and support their development and growth by regularly setting goals with them. You will give them actionable feedback that helps them understand what to keep doing and what to work on
• Use your experience and knowledge of High Performing Teams to lead & support the team to become efficient at planning and shipping complex products. You will engender a Continuous Improvement mindset, and build up a track record of making significant process improvements
• Place a particular emphasis on clear, engaging and empathetic communication, and know how to get buy-in for improvements. You value different communication tools but know how to deliver your message best (In-person, slack, video, email, etc.) You champion asynchronous and remote-friendly working practices
• Use your technical background as an engineer to ask the right questions of the team - is what is being delivered scalable and robust? Does it have good monitoring? How will it be tested? You endeavour to keep your knowledge relevant and can support your team in making good choices. You will work alongside the Tech Lead. You would be expected to contribute to the technical delivery by spending up to a quarter of your time pairing with engineers to get to understand our implementation and architecture. You embrace automation and testing as core “must-haves” of every successful and lean software solution
• Encourage high levels of psychological safety and identify what changes will benefit the team through running regular health checks. You will look for new ways of increasing the skillset and team health, leading to even better outcomes
• Build a strong working relationship with the team’s Product Manager - they are responsible for the Why, and you are accountable for the How. You collaborate with business stakeholders, working with the Product Manager to deconstruct their requirements to model optimal, scalable software solutions. You will use your knowledge of Agile methodologies and ways of working along with tracking and using metrics to hold the team accountable for delivering quality on time
• You are comfortable with the pace and trade-offs of a rapidly evolving scale-up (meaning: know how to take care of yourself and your team; get your work done without burning out; prioritise relentlessly; wear different hats when needed)
• Spend around 10-20% contributing to engineering initiatives like coaching circles, knowledge sharing and guilds or things like improving the engineering hiring processes

• An introduction video call with one of the team
• Behavioural/Technical Interviews (3 joint sessions)
• People Management and Leadership interview (remote/office)
• Project and Team Leadership interview (remote/office)
• Technical experience interview (remote/office)
• Final onsite interview:
• Meet the team you’ll work with daily
• Meet the exec team