Responsibilities

Team Leadership:

• Directly manages engineers;
  • Goals: Provide tech guidance, estimations, and blocker removal—functioning as the first escalation point for issues.
  • HR responsibility: Defines hiring requirements, leads onboarding, manage D&I initiatives, and ensures fair performance management.

*Cultural & Growth:

• Works closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to:
  • Guide engineers on product roadmap, technology strategy, and product impact.
  • Offer coaching, mentoring, and growth feedback—balancing process and agile autonomy.
  • Drive quality ethics: Enforce coding standards, prevent technical debt, maintain security, and promote refactoring.

Performance & Process:

• Standardises processes like agile ceremonies but retains squad-level autonomy for effective delivery.
• Tracks tasks, sprint velocity, and project delivery against roadmap OKRs.

Alignment & Objectives:

• Regular team syncs maintain visibility of progress and goals.
• Translating company objectives into measurable outcomes for the team—OKRs used as a primary framework.

Wellbeing Safeguards:

• Proactively tracks and addresses engineer wellbeing, burnout risks, or systemic issues (and escalates up the chain).
• Synthesises engineer feedback to refine processes and culture.

Focus on Delivery & Improvement:

• Uses data-driven metrics to evaluate team outputs and iterates on process.
• Processes retrospectives to continually improve technical and people processes.

Recognition & Engagement:

• Celebrates personal and organisational milestones, fostering motivation and a culture of engagement.

What We’re Looking For: Your Profile & Skills

Technical & Leadership Fit:

• Experience in a scale technology company (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Uber, Booking.com, N26, Personio) or a high-growth startup (e.g., Monzo).
• Proven ability leading teams of 3–10 high-performing engineers on complex, high-impact projects.
• Hands-on leadership in Generative AI teams, ex: prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or RAG technologies.

Core Competencies:

• Technical Translation: Experienced in translate product requirements into engineering plans. You prioritise maintainability, code quality, and minimise technical debt.
• People Management: Drive psychological safety, manage feedback, and resolve team dynamics proactively.
• Agile Expertise: Deep experience implementing and refining agile ateliers, including story 이용, task estimation, and sprint planning. Supports process upgrades.
• Collaboration & Empathy: Strong's peer-to-peer communication and radical empathy—understanding engineer motivations and work styles to foster alignment.
• Quality Champion: Deep motivation to uphold code standards across the team. Instigates a **sharing promotes best practices.
• Process Mindset: Aligns delivery urgency with continuous analysis of outcomes and agile capabilities.
  • DevOps-first mentalities valued
  • Serve teams with metrics, code scans, and visibility.

Passion for Purpose

• Cares deeply about HOW we build (Focusing on best practices, engineering craft, and quality standards) as well as WHY (understanding our products’ impact on employees, customers, and our business).

If you have most but not all of these under your belt, we actively encourage you to apply. The perfect hire can also learn what you lack.

Opening Opportunities ≠ Waitlisting

We currently offer a few selected roles—should you prefer to explore other opportunities with Benifex, please check out our careers page.

Our Interview Process

Speed & Efficiency: We prioritise transparency while maintaining fast turnaround. The full process typically spans ~5–6 one-on-one sessions.

1. Talent Team Call: (Casual discovery)
2. Engineering Director Interview: (30 min) – Look for engineering culture alignment; Potential for team chemistry.
3. Tech/Case Study: (60 min presentation)
4. VP of Engineering: (30–45 min final interview)

Equal Opportunity & Inclusivity

Proud Equal Opportunity Employer—we will promote diversity, equity and inclusion, representing values in our hiring practice.

• No discrimination in race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation or marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• Foundational Value: Accessibility & Discrimination Free Benefits Join our Disability Confident employer scheme.

Friendly reminder: If at any stage you need adjustments (to be inclusive and fair), don’t hesitate to request them when applying.

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