Engineering Manager Lifecycle Customer

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with

You will join the Technology & Product function specifically within the Engineering family. You will co-lead a squad alongside a Product Manager working in a cross-functional environment with colleagues in UX and data. Your role is to create clarity consistency and momentum within your squad while raising the teams voice to senior leadership. Youll act as a bridge interacting with stakeholders across the business to provide vital insight and context to your team.

We deliver progress. What youll do and how you will make an impact.

As a leader at UW you will balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability to ensure your team does their best work. You will take an integral role in defining team goals and driving prioritisation to achieve them.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Technical Strategy: Taking responsibility for technical decisions and ensuring they align with company strategy.

• Planning & Delivery: Working with Product Managers to set OKRs and co-leading annual and quarterly planning.

• Operational Oversight: Leading metrics reviews and ensuring organisation-wide on-call coverage.

• Risk Management: Identifying risks and blockers early and working with stakeholders to mitigate them.

• People Development: Onboarding training and coaching reports while participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews.

• Performance Tracking: Measuring team performance and communicating progress against KPIs and milestones.

• Financial Diligence: Ensuring team expenditures (both OpEx and CapEx) remain in line with budgets.

Qualifications :

Minimum requirements 

Your technical toolkit and experience include:

• Managing a team of engineers within a professional environment.

• Hands-on experience with Go gRPC GraphQL Postgres and Kafka.

• Hands-on experience with React TypeScript React Native.

• Proficiency with Docker Kubernetes and Terraform.

• Experience with CI/CD tooling specifically GitHub Actions and ArgoCD as well as cloud workflows.

• A strong understanding of engineering practices and the ability to drive operational excellence.

• Experience identifying practices for security and SLOs.

Additional Information :

Whats next 

Here is an overview of the internal recruitment process so you know what to expect. 

Please note there is the possibility to be either rejected or progressed at each stage; the below flow assumes you have been successful at every touchpoint. 

1. You submit your application

2. The Recruiter assesses your application against the minimum requirements

3. You will attend an interview with a Head of Engineering

4. You will complete a Technical Interview

5. The Recruiter will inform you of the outcome 

Not sure you meet all the requirements Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do.

We provide equal opportunities a diverse and inclusive work environment and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age disability gender marriage or civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity status race religion or belief or sexual orientation. Please dont be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.

Please note if you are successful and offered a role at UW you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time