Engineering Manager - Ecommerce

Work with Engineering Managers, Product Leads and other key stakeholders to understand and shape the overarching consumer strategy.

Work with your team to ensure an appropriate balance of new capabilities and technical maintenance is being carried out within each development cycle so that the technical health of the platform is conserved as the platform evolves

Help identify bottlenecks within the team, improve working processes, and ensure software delivery best practices are being used to our advantage

Track the progress outwards to the wider teams, ensuring new capabilities are released on time and to the required quality standards

Champion the observability strategy within your team ensuring relevant service level objectives(SLOs) are set to measure and improve the e-commerce system’s reliability. Your team will have the correct monitoring tooling in place and proactively identify and address issues.

Drive a culture of quality within the team by establishing rigorous processes and methodologies. This will include maintaining high code quality standards, defining and implementing automated testing strategies and ensuring comprehensive test coverage for both new features and existing functionality.

There is going to be hands-on work here, as a leader of this team you are going to need to understand how things work, there will be times when you will need to contribute to the team's work, review code and support them in designing and building complex distributed systems. You’ll help guide your team to design technical solutions that are appropriate in terms of scale, resilience and reliability.

Have direct people management responsibilities for a scrum team. This will require you to: Have regular 1 to 1s with each person to ensure they are happy and engaged in their work, as well as to coach them through any problems they are wrestling with Provide regular feedback and periodic performance reviews Understand each person’s long-term aspirations, helping them to set goals and carve out opportunities for growth in their career that are aligned with those goals

Have regular 1 to 1s with each person to ensure they are happy and engaged in their work, as well as to coach them through any problems they are wrestling with

Provide regular feedback and periodic performance reviews

Understand each person’s long-term aspirations, helping them to set goals and carve out opportunities for growth in their career that are aligned with those goals

Attend regular Product and Engineering management meetings, where you will have the opportunity to influence decisions that affect the entire engineering group

Report to the Head of Engineering of the Consumer group providing regular updates on progress and strategy while sharing any challenges the team may be facing where support is required.

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