Engineering Manager – Partner Proposition
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Engineering Manager leading technical direction, delivery, and people development at UW. Supporting an all-in-one energy, broadband, mobile, and insurance utility provider.
Responsibilities:
- Support the technical direction and people development of a small engineering team
- Guide delivery while remaining hands-on when needed
- Collaborate with the Product Manager to shape priorities and balance new work with ongoing improvements
- Share engineering practices with leaders across the organisation
- Own the squad’s technical decisions and align them with company and technical strategy
- Define team goals and drive prioritisation
- Establish practices to meet security and operational service level objectives
- Coordinate organisation-wide on-call coverage
- Lead regular metrics reviews for coverage and performance
- Set OKRs with the Product Manager and team
- Identify and mitigate risks and blockers
- Measure and communicate team performance, OKRs, KPIs, and milestones
- Co-lead annual and quarterly squad planning
- Staff the squad with appropriate technical skillsets and hire as needed
- Onboard, train, develop, and coach engineers
- Participate in performance calibration and promotion reviews
- Communicate company, department, and pillar strategy to the squad
- Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues including UX and data
- Co-lead the squad with the Product Manager
- Manage squad expenditures within OpEx and CapEx budgets
- Foster a healthy team culture and resolve interpersonal conflicts
Requirements:
- Knowledge of UW’s core tech stack: gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience with Go preferred but not essential
- Experience taking responsibility for technical decisions and aligning them with strategy
- Clear understanding of engineering practices and ability to identify improvements
- Experience defining team goals and driving prioritisation
- Ability to work with Product Managers to set OKRs aligned with company goals
- Ability to co-lead annual and quarterly planning
- Experience identifying risks early and mitigating them
- Experience identifying practices for security and SLOs
- Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews
- Experience managing a team of engineers
- Proven ability to onboard, train, develop, and coach reports
- Experience participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews
- Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights
- Ability to communicate strategy to the squad
- Experience fostering a healthy team dynamic and resolving interpersonal conflicts
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues
- Successful candidates are subject to a background check
Benefits:
- Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%
- Flexible working
- Optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact)
- Work from anywhere abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure
- Option to trade up to five holiday days each year
- UW discounts and a free Cashback Card
- Matched-contribution pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4x salary
- Family-first policies
- Allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership
- Eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service
- Dedicated learning and development budget
- Bi-annual promotion cycles
- Belonging groups
- Company-wide celebrations and events
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