Primer

Engineering Manager

Primer

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Leading a growing team of 6-8 engineers split across multiple pods
  • Cultivating an environment of continuous learning and collaboration
  • Optimising engineering processes and resourcing across the teams to optimise delivery
  • Collaborating with engineering leadership in setting team strategy and priorities
  • Reviewing technical architecture proposals and ensuring considerations have been made on cost, scalability, performance, resilience, testability, observability and maintainability
  • Improving knowledge sharing and collaboration, within and between teams, to remove roadblocks and keep teams performing well
  • Taking responsibility for planning, execution and success of complex projects
  • Driving a culture of cross-team learning, encouraging the team to present to the wider organisation on key learnings

Requirements

  • Software Engineering background - this role is technically hands-on
  • Proven experience managing and developing team of full-stack engineers
  • Passion about people, with the ability to inspire, coach and mentor to help people perform at their best
  • Happy to dive into the detail - reviewing decisions with the team, bringing new ideas to the table, and challenging the team
  • Someone who enjoys talking tech, code reviews, and regularly providing technical feedback to the team
  • Ideally knowledge across mobile, frontend and backend in a modern 'you build it, you own it' environment
  • A track record of delivery in fast growth environments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable working in remote environments.
Benefits
  • 100% remote working - work from anywhere you like, however you like
  • Competitive share options
  • Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
  • Co-working space access
  • Team socials - quarterly workations, annual company retreats and virtual events
  • The best equipment for your role
  • Additional £500 towards your home office setup
  • Unlimited learning budget
  • Medical insurance via SafetyWings
  • Location-specific benefits - pension, 401k, health insurance etc.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
software engineeringfull-stack developmentmobile developmentfrontend developmentbackend developmenttechnical architecturecost optimizationscalabilityperformanceresilience
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginspirationteam managementadaptabilitycontinuous learning