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Engineering Manager (Data & Machine Learning)
United Kingdom
Remote or hybrid
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Description
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead across several product teams managing up to ~10 engineers (including Tech Leads). This role will support our vegetation modelling and data ingestion domains as we seek to improve our underlying models and expand the number of data sources we can reliably turn into vegetation intelligence.
Our product teams are cross functional and will typically include: product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists and subject matter experts relating to the teams domain.
You will be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of your area. You will challenge your teams to achieve ambition goals whilst providing a high level of support through growing engineering talent and creating a highly collaborative team based environment where people can do great work.
Your primary focus will be on creating high performing teams and driving results through others. You will not be expected to spend significant amounts of time doing hands-on coding, however, you will be expected to dive deep technically when required and leverage your extensive experience as an engineer to drive good technical decisions and solutions.
What you will do
Enable our Vegetation Modelling and Data Ingestion teams to become highly productive cross-functional teams that ship a high quality product on a daily basis.
Grow the teams by attracting great talent from your network.
Foster an inclusive and caring culture where everyone can do their best work.
Provide regular 1:1 coaching and feedback to tap into the potential of all your team members and help them thrive and reach their aspirations.
Be a strategic partner to product managers within your domains and ensure that we are making the correct technical decisions that balance short and long term goals.
Ensure suitability of the architecture within your domains to enable longer term product goals
Work closely with the other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology and people. Including improving our engineering practices and introducing capabilities that can accelerate delivery or unlock new product opportunities.
About You
Passionate about climate
Experience working in a high growth scale up environment
Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
At least 2 years experience leading and managing engineers across multiple teams
Experience working with the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, Data pipelines)
Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends.
You are based in GMT/ CET time zone.
Nice to haves
Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains is beneficial but not essential.
If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply.
Role tech stack
React
TypeScript
Python
PostgreSQL
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana
Overstory
Engineering Manager (Data & Machine Learning)
United Kingdom
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