Engineering Manager

Power up what you do
This role is in Mettle
Mettle is for sole traders and limited companies with up to two owners (only one owner can access the account).
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Job Description
Join us as an Engineering Manager

• In this key role, you'll be leading a team of talented and creative engineers to build products
• We'll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
• It's a great opportunity to be recognised for your expertise and knowledge as you contribute to the bank-wide strategy
  

What you'll do
As an Engineering Manager, you'll be implementing and deploying engineering work with the team. You'll work closely with the team's product owner and delivery manager to plan and prioritise impactful technology investment initiatives.
Day-to-day, you'll be:

• Working with our staff engineers, making sure the team delivers the highest standards of technical design and implementation
• Coaching your team to maintain a high level of delivery performance and predictability, while managing the expectations of stakeholders
• Identifying and eliminating challenges, enabling the engineers to perform
• Supporting your team to ensure the services under your ownership meet defined SLOs agreed in collaboration with your product peers
• Developing talent and maintaining a supportive and engaging team culture that's focused on high performance
  

The skills you'll need
We're looking for someone with experience of building and designing scalable and performant systems and making significant contributions to the wider engineering goals of an organisation. We'll look to you to have excellent leadership skills and experience of leading a team of highly skilled engineers.
You'll also have:

• Strong practical and theoretical knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Experience with microservice architectures utilising event driven/sourced patterns
• Experience of containerisation and cloud infrastructure
• Experience employing observability tooling to monitor and detect proactively disruptions to the live service