Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

The job is for an Engineering Manager at a health tech company that focuses on personal well-being, combining scientific research and AI to enhance health. The role involves leading a team of engineers, partnering with product managers and designers, and contributing to the evolution of their architecture, tools, and processes.

Requirements

• Experienced in leading a distributed full-stack team, in a fast pace environment
• Still consider yourself a software engineer at heart and are willing to be hands-on when required
• Have managed 3+ direct reports before
• Are someone who takes ownership and is comfortable with ambiguity
• Provide clarity and make things happen at pace
• Have an appetite to work closely with their product team to test and release new ideas fast
• Challenge teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value
• Have great communication skills. Both verbal and in writing

Responsibilities

• Lead 1 team of 3-4 engineers, focusing on outcomes over output
• Partner with engineers, product managers and product designers to deliver great customer impact and make the company a great place to work
• Coach, mentor and develop high-performing engineers. Ensure high psychological safety
• Partner with product and science teams to establish the roadmap and achieve sustainable throughput while iterating fast
• Challenge engineers on system design, scope or sequencing to deliver faster while decreasing the technical debt. Actively tackle any bottleneck in the system, wherever they are
• Contribute to the evolution of their architecture, tools and processes
• Partner with other engineering managers on cross-cutting initiatives like hiring or onboarding

Preferred Qualifications

• An incredible growth mindset. You read books, watch talks, listen to podcasts and are never afraid to try new things
• Experience building mobile apps
• Experience deploying machine learning in production
• Experience with scalability (backend, data pipelines)

Benefits

• Remote-first - work from home, pop into their London/Boston offices, or work within the EU; you have flexibility to choose your own place of work and work flexibly
• Stock options - they want everyone to be rewarded for contribution to their growth
• Paid time-off - on top of any national / bank holidays, you get 28 days off (25 plus 1 life-event and 2 company-wide reset days)
• Enhanced parental leave - Enhanced parental leave, family planning and pregnancy/adoption loss leave - adding on to the statutory offering, they know how important it is to be supportive at times that matter
• Private healthcare and life assurance - flexible options to choose what fits
• Health and wellbeing - ZOE nutrition product, Employee Assistance Program, Spill mental health support, Cycle to Work, yoga and more
• Pension - paying monthly and offering flexibility to top your pension up
• Allocated social, WFH and Growth (L&D) budgets from the day you join
• Plenty of learning and social opportunities
• Switching off is important! They understand that to do your best work, you also need to be able to relax and connect with your colleagues. Enjoy their fun virtual and face-to-face social events, supported by a $70/month social budget