EcoOnline
Development Manager
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Want to be a part of a company that’s making a difference?
We’re a growing global tech company, with huge potential for curious and caring minds, committed to each other, to deliver solutions that protect people and the planet for future generations. Our team of experts are focused on creating meaningful impact and making a real difference for our customers.
🌍 Impact: A strong connection to our mission through product, customer and impact is essential. We protect people and the planet by helping businesses mitigate risks and create safer, healthier workplaces.
💡 Innovation: Trusted by over 11,000 customers, you’ll have the chance to work with industry experts and thought leaders, dedicated to driving positive change. We believe in fostering a trusting environment that empowers our team to grow, innovate, and succeed.
📈 Growth: Connect commercial growth to personal growth opportunities. Benefit from a wide range of learning opportunities for ambitious professionals seeking development in a rapidly expanding sector.
We're on a mission to protect people and the planet by building and deploying transformative software. We need everyone's energy and commitment, regardless of region or rank, to make that mission a reality for millions more customers.
Our culture code, a set of principles that underpins our values, is our commitment to each other and working better together.
Join EcoOnline and be part of a mission dedicated to driving positive change. Read on to learn more about the opportunity and how you can have a positive impact!
About the Role
EcoOnline's EHS engineering organisation designs, builds and operates software that helps organisations create safer, healthier and more sustainable workplaces. Our engineering teams work across a modern SaaS platform, partnering closely with Product leadership to deliver customer value while maintaining high standards of technical quality and operational reliability.
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The Development Manager sits at the heart of this, leading high-performing teams, owning delivery outcomes and technical direction, and developing the engineers and leaders who will carry the organisation forward.
Key Responsibilities:
- People leadership - hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching and career development of engineers.
- Delivery management - planning, sequencing and execution across a multi-team portfolio, with clear visibility of progress and risk.
- Technical oversight - ensuring appropriate architecture, tooling and engineering practices across teams, including AI-assisted development.
- Roadmap partnership - working with Product leadership to shape priorities, make capacity trade-offs and align engineering investment with business goals.
- Quality ownership - embedding quality practices including automated testing, observability and continuous improvement into team ways of working.
- Stakeholder management - maintaining trusted relationships with Product, peer engineering managers and senior leadership.
- Engineering metrics - using data to understand team health, delivery performance and areas for improvement.
- Incident and operational ownership - Accountable for how teams detect, respond to and learn from production incidents, fostering a culture of blameless review that drives systemic improvement.
- Cross-team coordination - Works across peer Development Managers and engineering leadership to resolve dependencies, align on shared standards and ensure team boundaries don't become delivery bottlenecks.
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What we're looking for:
- Minimum 2 years as a Development Manager, Engineering Manager or equivalent within a software R&D organisation, with demonstrable impact on delivery, team capability and engineering culture.
- Proven track record of developing engineers and technical leaders into more senior roles.
- Strong technical grounding in software engineering, cloud, CI/CD and SaaS with enough credibility to make informed trade-off decisions and provide meaningful oversight.
- Experience leading distributed or hybrid teams.
- Experience owning delivery outcomes across a multi-team portfolio.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
Our Benefits:
We offer a variety of global benefits which are listed below! Please note a country-specific breakdown will be provided during your interview process.
- 🌴 Generous Paid Time Off
- 🍼 Extended Parental Leave
- ❤️🩹 Robust Health Coverage
- 💡 Accelerated Learning Paths
- 🧘♂️ Team Wellness Initiatives
- 📆 Company-wide Events
- 🌎 Employee Resource Groups
- ⭐️ Recognition awards
EcoOnline is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves. Our Talent Acquisition team reviews all applications and believes in the potential of individuals who may not meet all the specific requirements but demonstrate the attitude, alignment with our values and drive to succeed.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need any assistance due to a disability, please speak to your talent acquisition partner.
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