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Tech Lead Manager - Mobile App (React Native)
£100,000
London NW1 4DF
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Hybrid requirements: 1 day per week in the office.
We are looking for an experienced technical leader, team leader and people manager to co-lead a cross functional, mission oriented product squad alongside a Product Manager and Design Lead. This hybrid role is perfect for people wishing to remain close to delivery, love building high performing teams and staying close to technology with an element of hands-on contribution (50% time initially, ~30% of time ongoing).
Primary responsibilities will be:
Team Leadership. Working as part of a “product trio” alongside a Product Manager and Design Lead you will collectively establish a Product Vision for your domain and a strategy to bring your vision to life. You will set ambitious OKRs for your team and own delivery of impact. Tech Leadership. Work with engineers to establish a technical vision and strategy that enables (and in some cases informs) the product vision. Guide the team to make good technical decisions that are aligned with squad objectives and longer term ambition. Able to operate hands-on at a Senior Engineer level and set the bar for engineering excellence, whilst appreciating that the primary role is to build a great team and support engineers to succeed. People Management. You will support 3-5 engineers in the following areas: understanding challenges and providing support, seeking and giving feedback, establishing plans for professional and career growth and pastoral care
We believe that great Tech Lead Managers have the following characteristics:
Problem Solver: Your team will be given “problems to solve” or “opportunities to seize” and you will be comfortable leading through uncertainty and ambiguity. You will be an influential member of the team championing a curious product mindset focussing on delivering business outcomes. Commercially minded with experience of driving significant revenues or cost savings through technology & product innovation. Practice Evolutionary Architecture: You will guide architectural direction across the Mobile App domains. Our teams own their software end-to-end and you will be comfortable leading across front-end and back-end (we appreciate you may bias towards one or the other). The architecture is never “done” - it is evolved incrementally in response to our members needs and operating context. Open to all kinds of technology that can be useful and help drive our business forward. Multiplier: you will level up engineers in your area through use of standards and modern engineering approaches. Ability to mentor early stage and mid level engineering to Seniors. People centric: Truly believes that building an inclusive and collaborative team based environment is a prerequisite for high performance and that this is their primary job. Brings people together to achieve things they never thought possible. Strong bias to action: Acts with urgency, breaking large seemingly insurmountable problems into smaller, more manageable problems, that can be validated and executed at pace (days/weeks not quarters/half years) You will be supported by an Engineering Manager who will typically support 3-4 teams.
What kind of work might I do?
Which? Mobile Application serves millions of users per month and represents a growing user platform for the business. We need to be able to support increased scale in terms of visiting members and rapidly lead feature development to make the Mobile Application a fully features Which? experience. Drive best practices for the Mobile Application development ecosystem and knowledge upskilling of React Native, Android and iOS app deployment. We see a huge opportunity in unlocking value from our data. This could be:
Gaining a deeper understanding of how our members use our App to enable us to provide better content experiences (e.g recommendations)
Reducing effort and time to build data products and internal tools. We have lots of data that has the potential to be monetised.
Search and conversational AI - helping our members quickly find the answers they need. You will work closely with Heads of Product Engineering, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineer and Product Managers to create and deliver a product engineering strategy
How might I progress my career?
The Tech Lead Manager sits on our management track and it’s common for tech lead managers to progress to become Engineering Managers supporting multiple teams. However, we are very open for Tech Lead Managers to switch to our technical track and focus purely on technical leadership and advance to become a principal engineer (our most senior engineering leadership level)
Which
Tech Lead Manager - Mobile App (React Native)
£100,000
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