lendable - Senior Engineering Manager

• PHP 8, Symfony 6&7, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS, Jenkins (we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature), Behat, Playwright, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium, Maestro and Detox. • HOW YOU'LL HAVE AN IMPACT • Manage and mentor your Engineering Managers to ensure that they and their teams are high performing across our pillars of delivery, people management, technology, and cross functional collaboration. • Own and optimise the delivery process to ensure features reach customers efficiently, contributing directly to quarterly and yearly OKRs focused on customer satisfaction and delivery timelines. • Collaborate with the Managing Director, Head of Product and Product Managers to balance feature development with technical improvements, achieving a sustainable pace for the team that aligns with business outcomes. • Build and develop a high-performing team by planning resources, recruiting, and ensuring that your teams conduct regular assessments, engage in cross-training, and implement clear career progression pathways, thereby supporting team resilience and adaptability. • Drive technical strategy in alignment with business goals, ensuring a consistent approach between teams and helping your EMs, Tech Leads and senior engineers to make strategic trade-offs between short-term deliverables and long-term technical investments. • Ensure high-quality output by establishing best practices in quality assurance and incident management, tracking metrics such as uptime and incident reduction in the team's area. • Facilitate cross-team collaboration to align on shared objectives and integrated roadmaps, ensuring seamless workflows and supporting key OKRs across dependent teams, including Credit, Growth, Operations and Finance. • Embed continuous feedback within the team culture, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and aligning the team's performance with organisational goals. • A degree in Computer Science or relevant experience in software engineering and technical management. • 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, managing managers and operating across a broad business domain. • A strong track record in driving delivery processes, team development, technical strategy, and cross-team collaboration. • Strong understanding of building and scaling consumer financial products, and experience managing cross functional engineering teams in an environment with dependencies on other business areas such as Credit, Operations and Finance. • Demonstrated ability to balance feature delivery with technical improvements, ensuring a sustainable and high-quality pace for the team. • Strong business acumen and a proactive approach to gaining deep business context, enabling alignment of technical decisions with broader business goals. • Proven experience in owning delivery timelines and quality outcomes, with the ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks quickly and efficiently. • Skilled in building high-performing teams, with experience in skills assessment, cross-training, and fostering a continuous learning and improvement culture. • Ability to strategically guide technical decisions without being a blocker, with familiarity in technical debt management, architectural planning, and quality assurance best practices. • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with experience facilitating joint planning and maintaining alignment across multiple teams and senior business stakeholders. • Proficiency in managing incidents and on-call processes, ensuring platform robustness and reliability.