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Engineering Manager
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Description
The Engineering Manager’s primary responsibility is achieving results through effective
leadership. This involves fostering a culture of growth mindset while upholding the
company values of honesty, loyalty, tenacity and accountability as well as connected values
such as integrity and respect. They coach their team members towards autonomous
leadership and align work assignments with individual career aspirations. They will also be
responsible for driving engineering excellence, ensuring that solutions fit the problems,
and that developers are empowered and encouraged to ensure the software we create is
secure, performant and reliable.
Key responsibilities include leading hiring processes, facilitating career progression, driving
process improvement, promoting effective communication, and collaborating with
technical and product leadership to plan, scope, and deliver products.
The Engineering Manager specialises in people management and considers their team to
be their product. While technically proficient, their focus is on team well-being, recruitment
of top talent, and creating an environment for success. They oversee the delivery of
product commitments and constantly seek to enhance productivity. Additionally, they
coordinate cross-departmentally to achieve shared objectives.
The company offers potential for advancement into more senior roles. You will report to
the CTO, however the organisational structure is relatively flat, allowing access to all team
members, including the CEO.
Skills
Demonstrated experience in a leadership role with current technical experience
In-depth technical experience in at least one of the core languages, frameworks, or
technologies used by the team (Ruby, Python, C/C++/Rust)
Understanding of software architecture principles
Familiarity with the product & software development lifecycle
Familiarity with other functional areas of your team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Leadership, teambuilding, and mentoring skills
Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
Flexible thinking, including the ability to pivot and try new approaches when faced
with challenges
Organizational, planning, and documentation skills
Share our values of Honesty, Loyalty, Tenacity, Accountability
Responsibilities
Line manage engineers
Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
Assist in authoring project plans
Run agile project management processes
Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions,
product architecture, and other areas.
Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and
practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones,
conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features.
Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent
Conduct interviews for candidates, focusing on team fit and culture, and train the
development team to do technical interviews
Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team, advocating for them
where necessary.
Generate and implement process improvements
Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team
Give regular and clear feedback around the individuals performance
Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when
necessary
Draft goals and Engineering KPIs
Work with the CTO & product team to identify opportunities for team members to
learn or grow skills.
Improve product quality, security, and performance
Key relationships
Report to and work closely with the CTO
Other members of the Ad Signal Executive team and Leadership team
Engineering team members
Internal product stakeholders across departments
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Culture overview
*Ad Signal Values*
Honesty, Loyalty, Tenacity, Accountability
*Remote-first*
We do not have an office - the company was set up this way and this is how we plan for it to stay. All of our employees are all over the UK and we use the plethora of online tools (and the Google suite) to manage our day and comms.
*Flexible working*
Although we have core hours, we try to be as flexible as possible with other responsibilities you may have, such as the school run. If you need to be away from your computer at certain times each day please let us know and we will plan around it. If you need to be away as something comes up, please just give us as much notice as possible.
There’s a Slack channel called #info-in-out; if you’re going to be away from your desk please let us know in this channel AND a rough eta for your return, so we’re not chasing you unnecessarily.
*Please chat nonsense*
We have no kitchen or water cooler to gather around and chat about our weekend, hobbies or personal lives; so please feel free to chat about whatever you like in Slack or while pairing. You’re not going to be criticised for talking with the team a healthy amount (which is quite a lot), in fact, it’s crucial to our culture; otherwise it will become a silent, sterile place to work, which is not what we want.
*Quarterly Meetups*
These will be both for team building and fun, and for whiteboarding and other planning. We’ll give plenty of notice beforehand and, since your home is your primary place of work, we will pay for any travel or accommodation.
*Share options*
We have set aside 10% of the company as share options to be divided amongst our employees. The exact number of shares, and their percentage value of the total company will be set during your interview.
Employee benefits
Enhanced parental leave
Flexible Working
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Share Options
Office vibe
Remote-first
Team Building Days
Location
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Leadership
Anson Kelly
CTO
Tech overview
Our products are focused around providing tools to help clients better manage video collections. We use well supported tools to deliver our products, using Ruby on Rails for web based behaviour paired with Python+Rust for lower level processing of video, audio and image files.
Our deployment environment is kubernetes based to leverage existing solutions and to have a degree of portability
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Infrastructure as code
Monitoring and logging
Pair programming
Test Driven Development
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