Engineering Manager

Engineering Managers at Thought Machine lead complex technical projects to deliver on our product roadmap. To accomplish this you will manage a group of talented engineers as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will manage your own project deliverables, contribute to product strategy and help develop and grow your team. We are particularly excited to hear from people who show strong product ownership and enjoy switching between engineering management and being hands on with technical work.

DUTIES

• Working with your team closely with Product Management and Client Services on defining and delivering our product roadmap.
• Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.
• Measuring your team’s impact.
• Contributing to product strategy.
• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.
• Developing engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
• Leading by example: involvement with hands on technical work

Requirements

Essential

• 2 years experience of engineering management of product aligned teams
• Experience of working in a cloud native environments, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP, golang/python).
• Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with Product Managers and Client representatives. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy.
• You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves.

Desirable

• Knowledge of banking / finance.
• Interest in working on client-facing projects, conducting scoping and defining deliverables.
• You’ve previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
• You’ve previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
• You’ve previously worked in a hypergrowth environment.