Engineering Manager, Kooth
£93.5-110k
Personalised digital mental health care platform
Open for applications
Personalised digital mental health care platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£93.5-110k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create easy to access online mental health services that work alongside you to provide compassionate and effective support.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced Engineering Manager with a proven track record of attracting and retaining great talent
- You have successfully led and managed healthy full-stack engineering teams in a remote environment, collaborating across geographies and timezones
- You are a servant leader who values team success over personal success, empowers individuals to grow, and emphasizes learning from failure. You thrive when developing great people, not just great products
- You are fluent in modern software development, quality and reliability practices. You partner with engineers and guide them to positive technical outcomes
- You believe in data-informed, learning-driven iteration and have a deep toolbox of agile and lean delivery experience to pull from
- You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners to lead high-profile, consumer-facing projects to timely execution and delivery
What the job involves
- Role: Engineering Manager
- Reports to: VP of Engineering
- Direct Reports: Up to 8 Engineers
- We’re looking for a forward-thinking Engineering Manager to lead a fast-paced, innovative team, helping engineers tackle challenging problems and develop reliable solutions
- You will have responsibilities that span people, engineering and delivery
- We will rely on you to ensure that engineers grow and thrive as they solve for business outcomes, to provide technical leadership while influencing culture, to facilitate technical delivery, to work with your team on strategy, practices and execution, and to work with leadership to define big picture vision and strategy alignment
- Your work will guide young people to the services they need, and have a positive impact on their mental health
- If you would like to be part of an ambitious, fun and caring culture in a growing company that is having a positive social impact, look no further – apply today!
- Lead, manage and support a remote-first, full-stack team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
- Nurture and champion a collaborative engineering culture where feedback, craft and quality are valued
- Guide your team as they make high-integrity technical decisions, develop sustainable architecture, and evolve near and long-term strategy
- Lead goals around reliability, observability, developer experience, continuous integration, data and ML tooling, and infrastructure cost management to outcomes
- Collaborate to continuously improve your team's agile practices, delivery cadence, ways of working and learning approach
- Work closely with your team and cross-functional peers to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions
- Provide context, support and guidance as your team works toward driving business outcomes — you will inspire, not merely direct
- Engage with the VP of Engineering and our broader leadership team to set up the Kooth engineering team for future growth and success
Our take
Kooth offers free-at-the-point-of-access mental health care to more than 5.4 million people via NHS commissioners, corporates, social workers, GPs and schools across the UK. It provides a mix of community-created content, forum sessions with other community members, and one-to-one counselling via online chat.
All users sign up anonymously for the service and there's no digital tracking of session IP addresses - thereby providing a safe space where people can get the support they need. As a pioneer in online counselling, Kooth brings together emerging technologies with innovation in clinical practice and evaluation to create new models of care in mental health.
Kooth’s 2020 IPO came at a time when London listings were sparse. This was a testament to the important contribution its services made at a time when people and businesses wanted to prioritise well-being. Another point of success for the company was its 33% soar in share prices after a contract was announced to serve 13 to 25-year-olds in California.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 28 days (plus Public Holidays)
- Yearly professional training programmes structured around you
- Pension contributions
- Remote Working
- Healthshield Care plan
- EAP programme, 24/7 Telephone Mental Health & GP
- Annual company share option awards
- Life Assurance (up to four times the amount of your annual salary)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Incapacity Income Protection
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Kate Newhouse
(CEO)Also a SUpervisory Board Member of the European Dental Group. Previously Member, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's Health-tech advisory board, CEO of Blenheim Chalcot and Doctor Care Anywhere.
Sanjay Jawa
(CFO)Previouslt Operating Partner at ScaleUp Capital and CFO at QualiTest Group.
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