Engineering Manager

Overview

London (hybrid) • Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme • Monday – Friday (no on call). Oodle – who are we. Our mission is to empower our customers by delivering simple experiences, straightforward lending products, and compassionate support, from application to final payment – and beyond. Upgrading. Growing a family. Fresh starts. Big moves. Bumps in the road. – we finance cars, but more importantly, we finance people. Since 2016, we\’ve supported tens of thousands of customers on their car buying journey. As an employer, your career is important to us. We\’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive as yourself. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, actively working to make sure every team member feels supported on their journey with us. Our Talent Development team is here to support your growth, providing opportunities for learning, development, and career progression.

Engineering at Oodle

Oodles\’ Product and Engineering department is divided into two main areas:

• The Pre-Funding area oversees the onboarding process for our customers. This involves the checks and procedures that are carried out \’prior\’ to the disbursement of a car loan. Its focus is on verifying customer details, validating necessary documents, and ensuring that the application adheres to all lending and compliance standards. The objective is to mitigate risk and confirm that the loan can be securely approved and funded.
• Post-funding represents Oodles\’ most essential system, which manages the complete loan lifecycle, encompassing payments and direct debits. This area pertains to the actions that take place \’after\’ the loan has been funded.

Supporting these functions are the Platform Engineering team, the Data team, and the information security team. The primary technologies used are Salesforce, and a collection of microservices developed in either Java, or Python, all hosted on AWS.

The Role

The Engineering Manager for Pre-Funding will be reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. You will lead & manage an experienced team of onshore software engineers to deliver a stream of awesome software releases that deliver real business value.

What you\’ll be getting up to

• Collaborate with product management to plan a realistic roadmap
• Lead, mentor, and develop your engineering teams; creating a collaborative and high-performing culture
• Support the professional growth of your team members by having regular developmental conversations with them
• Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment
• Manage the delicate balance between the need to deliver business value with the need to continuously improve the architecture and reduce tech debt
• In collaboration with the product managers, own agile ceremonies, and play a key role in the overall product governance processes
• Ensure the team adheres to best practices in software development, including continuous improvement of engineering processes and tools to improve code quality and shift-left on testing, security, monitoring and deployment
• Provide guidance on complex technical issues and assist with problem-solving
• Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes and tools

What strengths you\’ll bring

• An ability to combine technical skills with leadership
• Experience leading and line-managing a team of 5-10 software developers
• At least 5 years as a hands-on software engineer; ideally with Java and/or Python
• Experience with Salesforce is not essential but would be helpful
• Have experience of cloud technologies (ideally AWS)
• A qualification in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equal industry experience

Our Values

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger
• Strive for awesome – it\’s awesome when we do better every day
• Everyone\’s a builder – we\’re in this together and we win as a team
• Bravely honest – we\’re honest with ourselves and everyone else
• Think customer – they\’re at the heart of everything we do

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace, and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our \’Oodlers\’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.

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