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Software Engineering ManagerFull Time | West London | Hybrid (2 in 3 WFH)£90,000 - £110,000 per annum
Is this the Software Engineering Manager role for you?
Crone Corkill are assisting a West London based scale-up as they look to add a Software Engineering Manager to the business. Working as part of a diverse company, you'll be required to have proven experience of managing teams and building highly scalable systems, preferably with a background working in highly paced environments.
This is a vital hire for the business as they look for someone to lead their team of Developers, collaborate across other business areas, anticipate and resolve challenges, as well as provide a deep understanding of AWS environments, distributed systems, IaC, Python, Node.js and more.
What will you do as a Software Engineering Manager?
- Lead and grow a team of Developers and Software Engineers at varying stages of their career
- Understand the systems being used, team members using them and the technical landscape of the business
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, QA Engineers and Security Engineers in order to deliver products and foster a collaborative culture
- Communicate decisions and priorities, provide feedback to team members, recognise strengths and areas for growth, create opportunities for development and ensure high standards are met within the team
- Address risks and mitigation plans with stakeholders
- Develop and test core products/frameworks
- Take ownership of implementing best practices with the SDLC around Agile
- Manage documentation, updates and infrastructure maintenance
What skills do you need to be a Software Engineering Manager?
- At least 2 years' experience leading and building software development teams
- Experience delivering complex and scalable systems
- Extensive experience working with the likes of Python, Node.js, React and Typescript
- AWS experience
- Kubernetes (or similar)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) mindset - Terraform, CloudFormation etc
- Application architecture on AWS
What's in it for you?
In return you'll be joining an intriguing organisation in its relative infancy. Though they've been around for several years and operate as a scale-up, they haven't grown too fast and operate with a good company culture. As part of this role, you'll be given a real opportunity to be deeply involved in ground-breaking tech impacting an important part of human life. More will be shared on this during the process.
