Engineering Manager, Oodle Car Finance
+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme
1-3 days a week in office
Motor finance company
Open for applications
Motor finance company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the car-buying and ownership journey as easy & simple as possible for ‘Oodle Customers’.
Role
Who you are
- A desire to combine your outstanding technical skills with management expertise to create an awesome engineering team that is incredibly proud of the products that they deliver
- Experience leading and line-managing a team of 5-10 software developers, ensuring their professional development and productivity. Experience in managing cross-functional teams is a plus
- At least 5 years as a hands-on software engineer; ideally with Java and/or Python
- Experience with Salesforce is not mandatory but would certainly be helpful
- Demonstrable experience with cloud technologies (ideally AWS); particularly an understanding of how to manage cost and complexity in a cloud environment
- BSc or MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equal industry experience
What the job involves
- The Engineering Manager for Oobook and Loan Processing reports to the VP of Engineering
- They will lead & manage an experienced team of onshore software engineers to deliver a stream of awesome software releases that deliver real business value
- Collaborate with product management to plan a realistic roadmap that delivers a stream of high-value product enhancements. Initiatives may cut-across multiple teams so will require extensive collaboration with the other engineering teams
- Lead, mentor, and develop your engineering teams; fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture that understands the business and focuses on delivering business outcomes
- As line manager, support the professional growth of your team members. conduct regular performance evaluations, bring team members together physically on a highly regular basis, and provide constructive feedback
- Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment. Manage the delicate balance between the need to deliver business value with the need to continuously improve the architecture and reduce tech debt
- Alongside the product managers, take accountability for the agile ceremonies, and play a key role in the overall product governance processes
- Ensure the team adheres to best practices in software development; including continuous improvement of engineering processes and tools to improve code quality and shift-left on testing, security, monitoring and deployment. N.B. Oodle engineering teams are not currently on-call, but ensuring teams have end-to-end accountability for reliability is a high-priority, so this is likely to change
- Provide guidance on complex technical issues and assist with problem-solving
- Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes and tools, in collaboration with engineering leadership, to enhance productivity and quality
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Oodle was founded in order to simplify car buying and ownership by providing an easy and transparent way of supplying buyers with car finance to facilitate a seamless and enjoyable customer experience.
It aims to revolutionise how people buy cars by prioritising customer needs and utilising modern technologies to update the used car market. Oodle primarily supplies loans to customers and puts them in contact with the UK's best-rated car dealers in a rapid digital procedure.
This customer-first, fully integrated digital retail experience is backed by powerful algorithms, their proprietary loan technology, machine learning, and Big Data infrastructure.
Oodle now has branches in Oxford, Manchester, and London, acquiring Carsnip in December 2018 to become their go-to car search engine provider.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
48% female employees
-27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Open and honest communication
"Open and honest communication is a part of our core values in the business, and is practised at all levels of the business. At Oodle, all employees..."
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2017
$75m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $75m
Company benefits
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Pension (5% Employer 4% Employee Contribution)
- Private Healthcare
- Death in Service Benefit (Salary x 4)
- Salary Sacrifice Electric Car Scheme via Tusker
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing to 28 days after 3 years service.
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Oodle Academy - Full training and development
- Flexible Working Policy
- Paid day off to Volunteer with our nominated charity
- Complimentary Breakfast and snacks - you wont go hungry!
- Mentoring scheme
- Mental Health Support
- Mentoring Program
- Access to free counselling
Company values
- Think Customer: they're at the heart of everything we do
- Everyone’s a Builder: we’re in this together and we win as a team
- Embrace being Human: empathy and diversity make us stronger together
- Strive for Awesome: it's awesome when we do better every day
- Bravely Honest: we're honest with ourselves and everyone else
Company HQ
City Centre, Oxford, UK
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Leadership
People progressing
Joining as Business Transformation Lead, Jess has had an incredibly successful journey at Oodle - she was promoted to Chief of Staff in 2022, and then to COO in 2023.
Greg joined Oodle in 2019 as a Data Analyst and progressed to Quantitative Analyst in June 2021, and to a Senior role in the team by August 2022.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Oodle Car Finance
Heidi (Physick )
- We run mandatory unconcious-bias training every year and for all new starters, and have a number related webinars available in our Oodle Academy.
- We have D&I Networks meeting monthly, covering Gender, Ethnicity and LGBTQ+ Each group has at least one Executive Committee member involved.
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