Engineering Manager / Scrum Manager, Home Based in London

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are now looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Reliability and Operations team. The team’s main objective is to build a new Developer Experience platform that improves the efficiency of the Guardian’s engineering team by strengthening our observability and deployment capabilities and making it easier to develop software. Our infrastructure lives in AWS and most of our backend code is written in Scala, but other languages such as TypeScript and Go are used where appropriate. In the Guardian’s Product and Engineering department, we are exploring AI technologies and their potential role in enhancing the productivity of our software engineering team. You will provide support and guidance to your team in leveraging AI technologies for software development, carefully considering the risks and opportunities.

• Coaching developers on areas for development, celebrating their achievements and recognising their strengths.
• Demonstrating your experience and knowledge as a developer with a variety of experience across domains and technologies, including your experience and interest in DevOps and migrations.
• Ensuring the team collaborates with the Product and Engineering department to migrate services to the new platform and that the department is informed about the work that the team is doing.
• Actively participate in the engineering management team and shape practices to improve the wider department, including recruitment, mentoring and evolving our development practices.
• Experienced people manager, committed to supporting your line reports and their career development and building effective, inclusive teams.
• Experience of working within the DevOps, platform engineering or Site Reliability Engineering space.
• You have an understanding of cloud-native architecture and modern DevOps tooling.
• You are interested in contributing to the Developer Experience stream’s long term strategy.
• Familiarity with the team’s tech stack, including AWS and at least one of the team’s coding languages (e.g. Typescript, Scala, Go).

We operate in a hybrid environment working 3 days a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 2 days a week remotely. The salary for new Senior Engineering Managers at the Guardian is £112,000 per year.

We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.

You'll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days. Our pension scheme is generous; Season ticket loans are also available. You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance. We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.

We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought. We offer tools to help you prioritise your wellbeing including access to our employee benefits platform which provides tailored support for health and wellbeing. These run alongside our corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme. We encourage personal and professional growth. Employees have access to a broad range of tools and solutions, and we are happy to support the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.