Senior Engineering Manager in Burgess Hill

We are looking for a skilled and hands-on Sr. Engineering Manager to lead on the implementation of the mobile application service layer (backend for front end) for the upcoming iOS and Android travel mobile application along with the overall program’s technical governance across engineering teams, and delivery, vendor and stakeholder management of the program.

The Sr. Engineering Manager actively provides people-leadership, deep technical knowledge and contributes to the engineering team that will design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, deploy, document, and ensure reliability and availability for the software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user tools and applications.

The ideal leader must be:

• willing and able to express new ideas, concerns, and opinions directly to the direct team and wider
• proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven
• adaptable to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• proficient collaborator and communicator

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
• Establish and accept responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
• Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices

Leadership

• People Leader to software engineering team, including colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to sr. engineering colleagues in team(s)
• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
• Hire top talent for the team

Essential Criteria – Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of active engineering – Experienced with Kotlin / Java
• 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Experienced ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)

Essential Criteria – Technical Skills

• Deep knowledge and experience in programming, testing, and application design for microservices using Java 17 and above or Kotlin, Spring and build automation with Gradle.
• Observability – Logging, Monitoring & Alerting Strategy & Implementation using industry standard frameworks like Sentry
• Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github actions, CircleCI.