Engineering Manager II
Role Summary
Join Zilch as an Engineering Manager II to lead agile teams and drive technical innovation within a fast-growing fintech company.
About the Organisation
We're one of Europe's fastest-growing fintech companies – on a mission to create the world's most empowering way to pay.
We launched the product in 2020 and achieved double unicorn status, valued at $2 billion, and since then have taken on more than 6 million customers.
Our mission is to become the best way to pay for anything, anywhere and say goodbye to credit costs for everyone. This is huge. Want to join us?
As our Engineering Manager you'll play a pivotal role as a servant leader, directing, encouraging, and driving the team to excel. Your expertise will guide technical direction, mentor the team, and contribute hands-on. Day to day, you'll lead teams, design technical aspects, prioritise tasks, and support leadership while fostering best engineering practices. In essence, you'll be the catalyst for innovation and success within our engineering department.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading two agile teams to implement features that deliver significant impact for our customers.
- Designing technical aspects and architecture of user stories and plans for delivery to production.
- Prioritising technical debt alongside product deliverables to achieve the best outcomes for Zilch.
- Supporting the Head of Engineering and CTO and interacting with key senior business stakeholders.
- Take ownership for overall delivery cadence and quality for your teams.
- Identifying and removing obstacles and bottlenecks from the team.
- Drive adoption of best engineering practices to improve delivery.
- Mentor and coach team of engineers in agile and lean practice.
- Organising effective knowledge transfer, training, and documentation
Minimum Requirements
- Someone with bags of energy, is happy, passionate and loves helping development teams deliver.
- A person who lives and breathes agile and obsesses about continuous improvement.
- A servant leader who can direct, encourage, assist, track, cajole, and drive a team to want to excel.
- A technologist who can guide technical direction, mentor a team, and get their hands dirty.
- A Bachelor and/or master’s degree.
- 3+ years’ experience leading and managing software engineering teams, including coaching teams on agile practices.
- Experience in Scrum, Kanban or other immediate type delivery.
- Previous experience in developing either Java, React, C# etc.
- 2+ years communicating to key stakeholders.
- Experience in solutions architecture.
- Experience in managing projects.
- Experience in cloud environments (AWS or equivalent)
- Experience in managing DevOps, Platform or SRE teams.
Working Conditions
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- Pension scheme.
- Death in Service scheme.
- Income Protection.
- Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme.
- 5% back on in-app purchases.
- £200 for WFH Setup.
- Hybrid working: office-based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday
- Casual dress code.
- Workplace socials.
- Healthy snacks.
Eligibility Criteria
No clear eligibility requirements stated; the opportunity may be open to international applicants.
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