aveni - Software Engineering Manager
Requirements
• Extensive experience in software engineering, with genuine hands-on technical experience. You know what good code looks like and can get into the details when it matters. • Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead, with real ownership of individual performance and team culture. • A track record of building high-trust, high-autonomy teams, not teams that work because of you, but teams that work because of the environment you built. • Good understanding of Node.js or Python, and React. Enough to have credible technical conversations, review code, and debug issues alongside your team. • Experience with Agile/Scrum, and a track record of improving how teams deliver, not just following a process. • Genuine excitement about AI coding tools. You use them yourself, you help your team use them well, and you stay current on what's emerging. • You enjoy management and leadership problems. Growing and unblocking people, building the processes and frameworks that make the team better. These are things you actively want to do.
Responsibilities
• Own performance, development, and progression of your team • Own the individual performance and development of your direct reports, setting a high bar, giving honest feedback, and creating conditions for engineers to grow into real ownership. • Build a self-organised team, initially playing a facilitating role in ceremonies, with the explicit goal of no longer being needed to run the process. • Partner with Product on roadmap planning, making sure engineers understand the context behind the work, not just the tickets in front of them. • Own your team's delivery, keeping engineers unblocked, priorities clear, and commitments met. • Spot patterns in how your team operates, design better ways of working, and build the automation that powers those improvements. • Stay close enough to the codebase to spot friction, improve developer tooling, and engage credibly in technical discussions, without stepping onto the critical path. • Drive hiring alongside our Recruitment team, contributing to interview process design, and a high-quality candidate experience. • Set the cultural expectation around AI coding tools, building team-wide norms for responsible, high-quality AI-assisted engineering.
Benefits
• We're building AI systems for a sector where trust and safety genuinely matter and we take that seriously in how we engineer. • High-trust, high-autonomy culture: we give engineers real ownership and expect them to use it. • AI-native engineering culture. We use AI tools across the full software lifecycle and expect our engineering leaders to lead from the front. • High-growth fintech at an exciting moment. New products launching, the team scaling, and the chance to shape how engineering works at Aveni for years to come. • We’re a remote-first company across the UK, with regular off-sites and in-person gatherings that are always fun, motivating and team-focused. • Work abroad policy • Co-working spaces available • 34 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays) and your birthday off • Company-wide off-sites • Optional Personal Development Plan • Protection essentials including Life Insurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness cover, and Pension (up to 5% matched employer contribution with optional increased contributions) • Private health and dental care • Potential share options • Enhanced family leave
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