Engineering Manager – 12-month FTC
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Engineering Manager leading AI product teams at Benifex, a global online reward solutions provider. Overseeing dynamic engineering teams creating exceptional HR admin experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Directly manages engineers, guides work, estimations and removes blockers. You are the first escalation point.
- Works closely with the Product Manager and Tech Lead to provide guidance and coaching to squad members on technical contributions, product roadmap and other areas.
- Provides feedback and helps engineers grow their skills.
- Ensures adherence to development methodologies.
- Standardise processes (e.g. agile ceremonies, code quality standards), but give squads autonomy for effective delivery.
- Tracks tasks, maintains project velocity, and owns squad-level deliverables against the roadmap.
- Align teams. Regular sync-ups maintain clarity.
- Align on company objectives and measurable outcomes through transparent OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
- Proactively track engineer well-being, spot burnout, and suggest solutions.
- Report up to address systemic issues.
- Use metrics to track quality and delivery.
- Encourage retrospective analysis for continuous improvement.
- Recognise milestones and individual contributions to build morale and engagement.
Requirements:
- Working in world-class product / tech organisations , either companies that have reached scale (Google, Microsoft, Uber, Booking.com) or high growth startups (Monzo, N26, Personio).
- Demonstrable ability in building and leading high-calibre engineering teams .
- Experience leading engineering teams working on Generative AI (Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, RAG)
- Understanding Technical Requirements with a Focus on Quality: Translate product requirements into squad plans and capacity, while also having a keen eye for ensuring high coding standards, maintainability, and the prevention of technical debt.
- People Management : Ability to motivate, provide constructive feedback, manage performance, and resolve interpersonal conflicts within a team.
- Agile Expertise: Experience implementing and iterating on Agile processes (like Scrum or Kanban) including task breakdown, estimation, and sprint planning.
- Collaborative and Empathetic: Possesses strong communication skills and builds positive relationships with engineers, focusing on understanding their motivations and work styles.
- Quality Champion: Intrinsically motivated to produce high-quality code and instills a focus on maintainability, testing, and code standards within the team.
- Results-Driven and Process-Oriented: Able to balance adherence to Agile methodologies and delivery timelines with a focus on continuous improvement. Familiar with using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to set measurable goals.
Benefits:
- £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.
- Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a quarter in our UK HQ
- 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays
- Your birthday off
- Two half day wellbeing days
- Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare
- Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
- Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!
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