Breadcrumb - Engineering Manager
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Requirements
• 5–8+ years’ experience in software engineering, with 2–4+ years leading engineers as an Engineering Manager or Senior Tech Lead. • Strong technical foundation with the ability to guide architecture, code quality, and sound engineering trade-offs. • Proven experience delivering predictable outcomes across multiple quarters in an agile environment. • Comfortable owning team delivery, backlog prioritisation, and ways of working (e.g. Kanban or Scrum). • Confident people leader with experience in coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development. • Experienced in cross-functional collaboration, partnering closely with Product and other stakeholders. • Calm and decisive under pressure, including incident response and post-incident reviews. • Empathetic, accountable, and pragmatic — able to balance team health, technical excellence, and business impact. • Some experience with C#, .NET, Typescript and Azure is preferred.
Responsibilities
• Leading people & teams • Lead, coach, and develop engineers through regular feedback, performance guidance, and career development. • Create a high-performing, psychologically safe team environment built on collaboration, ownership, and accountability. • Manage task allocation, workload balancing, and on-call rotations. • Mediate and resolve team or technical conflicts with empathy and clarity. • Driving technical excellence • Own the technical quality of your team’s work, ensuring high standards for scalability, reliability, and maintainability. • Guide code quality, design principles, and best practices across the team. • Manage and prioritise technical debt to support long-term platform health. • Lead complex code reviews and technical decision-making when needed. • Champion automation to improve velocity and reduce toil. • Delivery & ways of working • Own the team’s delivery model (e.g. Kanban or Scrum) and execution against quarterly goals. • Facilitate team cadences including planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives — always with clear purpose. • Continuously improve team processes, estimation, testing practices, and documentation. • Lead effective incident response, post-mortems, and root-cause analysis. • Cross-functional collaboration • Act as a key communication bridge between Engineering and Product, Customer Success, Sales, and other teams. • Partner with Product Managers to define scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria for high-value work. • Ensure the backlog is prioritised based on customer impact, technical needs, and business strategy. • Protect the team from unnecessary scope creep while balancing time-to-market trade-offs.
Benefits
• Getting to work closely with Product and Design to shape meaningful outcomes. • Influence how engineering scales in a growing, ambitious business building technology that makes a difference.
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