Mindera
Engineering Manager - contract - outside IR35
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About the Role
We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture.
This is an initial 12-month contract (outside IR35) that requires you to work on client site 3 days a week in London, Paddington.
Requirements
Your key accountabilities will include:
Team Management
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members.
- Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload balance across projects.
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Agile Delivery
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
- Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary.
- Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
Technical Leadership
- Drive the adoption of standards and methodologies for software development.
- Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality.
- Work with senior engineers to develop the team's technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.
Quality Assurance and Maintenance
- Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements.
- Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.
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Skills and Experience
Your skills and experience will include:
- Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer
- Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend
- Extensive background in software engineering with several years' experience in a variety of systems and technologies
- Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
- Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies
- Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it
Tech Stack
- Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
- React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular
- Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
- SQL Server, MongoDB
- Ignite, Redis
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