Raspberry Pi Foundation is hiring a
Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join our team as a Software Engineering Manager and lead a technical delivery team responsible for key services and products, including Raspberry Pi Accounts, raspberrypi.org, and our design system. You'll work closely with a Product Manager, Product Designers, and Software Engineers based remotely around the UK.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and management skills, with proven experience leading technical delivery teams in an agile environment
• Experience leading, managing, and motivating Software Engineers in your team
• User focused, always asking “how does this benefit our users?” and able to communicate and prioritise based on end user value
• Interpersonal skills to manage complex and sometimes difficult interactions with grace
• Experience being a line manager, including performance management
• Experience setting up and managing developer tooling
• Experience sharing best practices to improve processes and quality
• Experience leading and managing technical teams in an agile environment
• Experience working as a senior individual contributor in a technical team
• Experience designing, building, and delivering web services
• Experience mentoring and coaching software engineers and providing them with opportunities to grow and develop
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback while assuming good intent
• Experience in a high-level language such as Ruby, JavaScript, or Python, and of an RDBMS (such as PostgreSQL)
• Ability to break down complex problems into achievable goals and ensure the team has a situational awareness of each other’s work

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers developing products and services
• Take ownership of your team’s agile way of working and collaborate with the rest of the organisation to establish and use a shared language about our Agile process
• Use organisational and technical solutions to measure and enhance the quality of the software your team provides to user
• Work with our impact team to define and measure the positive impact of your team’s projects
• Partner with a Product Manager to define clear requirements and translate them into actionable tickets for your team
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to refine processes, enhance code quality, and improve documentation across all our projects
• Build consensus within your team and with stakeholders on clear objectives
• Take ownership for delivering projects and products from inception to completion
• Prioritise and manage your team’s workload
• Coach and mentor Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers within your team
• Manage the performance and development of your team members
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve release processes, resilience, and stability

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
• Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
• Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
• Investment in professional development and learning
• Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
• Generous family leave policy
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan