Ventula Consulting
Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager – Manchester – Hybrid (2x a week onsite) – 6-month contract - £736 p/d (Inside IR35)
Engineering Manager required to join our globally recognised e-commerce client and their multidisciplinary engineering team, working on a key customer-facing search and conversational experience. You’ll lead a team of Android, iOS, backend and full-stack engineers, working closely with Product, Design, UX, Data and wider engineering stakeholders across multiple international locations.
The role combines people leadership, delivery management and strong Android technical leadership, with responsibility for creating the right environment for the team to deliver high-quality, reliable and maintainable products. You’ll provide technical guidance across Android architecture, help manage technical trade-offs, support production issues and ensure the team balances customer needs, delivery goals, technical quality and operational risk.
Key responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Own delivery planning, roadmap progress, resourcing, dependencies and risks.
- Provide clear technical direction across Android, iOS, backend and full-stack development.
- Provide hands-on Android guidance across Kotlin, Jetpack, Compose/Views, architecture and development practices.
- Support Android technical decisions, code reviews, debugging and technical investigations where required.
- Take end-to-end ownership of products and services from discovery through to production and continuous improvement.
- Monitor application health, performance, crashes, ANRs and customer feedback.
- Drive mobile quality, testing, accessibility, security and performance improvements.
- Support production incidents, root-cause analysis, postmortems and long-term reliability improvements.
- Promote continuous delivery, feature flags, experimentation and phased rollouts.
- Provide architectural guidance and make technical trade-offs across application architecture, networking, caching and maintainability.
- Support recruitment, headcount planning and effective ways of working across the team.
- Build a healthy, inclusive environment focused on autonomy, accountability and continuous development.
- Potential involvement in an on-call rotation.
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- 5+ years’ professional software engineering experience, including significant Android development experience.
- Experience managing, leading or coaching software engineering teams.
- Strong practical Android development experience with Kotlin and the Android platform ecosystem.
- Experience with modern Android architecture, including Jetpack, Compose and/or Views, modularisation and asynchronous programming.
- Strong understanding of mobile testing, CI/CD, release management and production debugging.
- Experience making technical decisions across architecture, networking, caching, performance and device compatibility.
- Ability to contribute directly to Android code or technical investigations when required.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience coaching engineers, providing feedback and supporting career development.
- Pragmatic approach to balancing customer impact, delivery, technical quality and operational risk.
Duration: Initial 6-month
Location: Manchester, 2x a week onsite
Day Rate: £736 p/d (Inside IR35)
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