Engineering Manager

Rev & Regs are recruiting for an Engineering Manager position for a dynamic and exciting Technology company based in Solihull, Birmingham.

You will be leading a cross-functional Agile squad tasked with building new products and features. You will have primary responsibility for both delivery and management. You will be working closely with product owners and tech leads, who are responsible for product and tech choices respectively, but you will also contribute to those areas.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate an Agile delivery process.
• Keep the team focussed on delivery.
• Identify and work to remove blockers impacting the team.
• Measure and report on delivery metrics to senior leadership.
• Facilitate continuous improvement, including regular retrospectives.
• Line-manage a team of around 8 engineers and SDETs.
• Coach engineers.
• Conduct performance reviews.
• Hire as required.
• Work with product managers and product owners on scoping new features in advance of development.
• Ensure large projects are split into manageable deliverables.
• Write user stories.
• Make smart choices to control technical debt whilst moving quickly.
• Enable frequent deployments.
• Assist Tech Leads and the VP Engineering with engineering strategy and architecture.

Experience required:

• A technical background. You were probably a software engineer before (even if in the distant past!).
• Delivery & Agile experience. You are likely to have played a scrum master role or similar before.
• You have a track record of mentoring software engineers and enjoy doing this.
• You bring a proactive, high-energy approach, and motivate your team to drive for success and have fun, taking pride in their work.
• Nice to have (but not essential)
• Experience with some of these languages: Go, Typescript/React, or Flutter.
• Cloud experience (AWS ideally).
• Management experience with a team of 4+ engineers.
• An interest in Product.

Location: Solihull, Birmingham

Salary: £85,000 + bonus + benefits package