Software Engineering Manager in Manchester

Location: Manchester. N.B. This role does not come with relocation assistance, therefore candidates must be currently based in the UK in order to be considered.

Hybrid working policy: 2 days in the Manchester office per week.

Who are we? At Booking.com, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. We began by taking hotel bookings online over 25 years ago and we’ve been shaping the travel industry ever since. Today, we’re building a platform that connects all parts of the trip – from accommodation to transport, tickets, tours and more. Booking.com Insurance is the easiest way to protect your trip and travel with peace of mind. As part of our Connected Trip vision, Booking.com has ambitious growth plans for the insurance business as it looks to develop a global footprint of insurance product offerings across the group. Through innovation, industry sector knowledge and clear customer focus, the team’s challenge is to substantially enhance the Insurance customer experience.

Role Overview: As the Engineering Manager in the Insurance Offer Team located in Manchester, you will be building the Insurance platform in Booking.com. You will be working closely with various teams spread across verticals within Booking’s frameworks to make it easier for the 8.5M people who open our apps/website every day to purchase insurance. With a talented team of product managers, backend developers, and data analysts, you will create a seamless customer experience to increase user engagement and bookings. This is a Backend team that works with the latest cloud-based technologies; Java is the main language used in the team. You will have the opportunity to coach and mentor a varied set of capable engineers. The role of Engineering Manager is to primarily manage, coach and develop an engineering team (software and test engineers), ensuring the development of both the individual and team as a whole are in line with organisational objectives and direction.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Managing People
• Managing Team
• Coaching/Mentoring
• End to End System Ownership
• Technical Incident Management
• Building software applications
• Architectural Guidance
• Automation and toil reduction
• Monitoring and Alerting improvements
• Critical Thinking
• Continuous Quality and Process Improvement

Qualifications & Skills:

• High proficiency in technical leadership
• Solid understanding of building robust and resilient systems
• Strong focus on delivery management
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills
• Solid understanding of how the web works starting at the request through to the response
• Proficient in the use of design patterns and frameworks such as MVC or Spring
• Solid experience of Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery, and Agile
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies and how they can be leveraged to solve problems at scale
• Proficient in cloud cost management
• Quality first mindset for writing code using techniques such as TDD, BDD and Agile
• Good understanding of security principles and writing secure code
• Solid understanding of Agile practices

Benefits & Perks:

• A great, brand new office in the heart of Manchester
• Free breakfast and lunch
• 25 days’ paid holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28 days after 3 years of service)
• Health & well-being benefits such as mental health support, access to health insurance, etc.
• Employer contribution pension
• Industry-leading parental leave and adoption leave
• Great discounts on accommodation, car rentals and other group benefits
• From day one of your employment with us, we offer 22 weeks’ fully paid leave for all new parents, regardless of gender or the way you become a parent
• Carer’s leave: 10 days’ fully paid leave per year for colleagues who are caring for ill family members.
• Hybrid Working (UK): We believe in office attendance at least 40% of your time whilst empowering you with the flexibility to plan where to do your best work.

Wellbeing & Inclusion at Booking.com: Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Wellbeing and Volunteering (IDBWV) have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations. Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.