Our client are one of the fasting growing fintechs in Scotland, and as part of their continued growth they are looking for a Engineering Manager to come in and join their growing multi disciplined development team. We are looking for an experienced developer to head up a new team of developers and to take technical responsibility of a core system within their stack and are looking for someone who understands how to get major architecture improvements built in a progressive iterative fashion.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 6-8 developers
- Agent of change, working with release manager to improve process and team velocity.
- Working with Product Owner, Business Analysts and head of development to roadmap features and initiatives.
- Refining stories to get them ready for development.
- Process mapping technical flows.
eam Objectives
The team is currently responsible for a customer facing application (Angular) and API (Django Rest Framework).
About you:
You have several years of programming experience working within a team, following basic agile practices. You will preferably have familiarity with Python (Django) and had prior exposure of working within a multi-disciplined team.
Experience of any of the following would be advantageous
- Demonstrated experience of leading teams and/or projects, and able to follow basic agile practices.
- Able to set project plans, timelines and motivate a team to deliver upon them
- Ability to coach and motivate engineers to think outside the box
- As a leader, have demonstrable experience in time prioritization, goal setting, conflict management
- Ideally experience within projects like those that will be worked on at Beeks, for customers within the banking/financial industries.