Engineering Manager

Title: Engineering Manager

Location: London, United Kingdom

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future.

Salary: 110k-130k Pounds + 10% Bonus + RSU's

Your Impact

As the Engineering Manager for the Platform Team, you will lead and oversee a high-performing team responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise-grade SaaS products. You will ensure the efficient delivery of high-quality software solutions by managing project requirements, delegating tasks, and fostering technical excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Project Leadership: Determine project requirements, develop work schedules, and delegate tasks to meet project goals.
• Team Management: Lead a team of engineers, ensuring the highest standards in product delivery and facilitating cross-team communication.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a bridge between technical teams and various stakeholders, including management, product managers, and product designers.
• Reporting & Risk: Prepare progress reports, deliver presentations to relevant stakeholders, and identify risks to develop contingency plans as needed.

Who You Are

• Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Sector Expertise: Experience in SaaS environments and familiarity with cloud-based technologies and architectures.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and scale a diverse team of engineers with strong interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Technical Proficiency: * Hands-on experience with Java, C#, or Python in an enterprise environment.
• Skills in API and Data Model Design, including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems.
• Understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective.
• Project Management: Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

"Even Better" If You Have...

• Experience with CI/CD with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.
• Experience with Federated GraphQL, Kafka, or other event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Protobuf and gRPC for defining service interfaces and efficiently serializing structured data.
• Experience with NoSQL data stores, data caches, and other non-relational storage technologies.
• Experience using Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy.
• Experience selecting and extending third-party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage.

Eligibility

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Our client is not currently sponsoring visas.

About the Company

Our client provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies e-discovery, legal document review, and case management. Their scalable, integrated solution enables global enterprises, law firms, and governments to easily collect and process complex data relevant to legal matters.