Senior Manager, Software Engineering (UK Remote) in Newcastle upon Tyne

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.

Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritises your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.

This is a leadership position. The main objective is to manage and maintain several products from the Turnitin Integrity portfolio. This position requires strong project management, technical, and collaboration skills. As an Engineering Manager, a person will communicate with product managers, customer success, and engineers across the globe. Strong prioritisation and problem-solving are required to succeed in this position. Since the time will be distributed within five different projects, time management skills and the ability to switch between contexts are required. This is a people management position. The person will manage individual contributors, provide feedback, mentor/coach, and help with career development.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Lead and Empower Engineering Teams: Oversee and manage two highly efficient engineering teams, ensuring they are aligned with company objectives and consistently deliver high-impact results. Collaborate seamlessly with globally distributed engineering teams, product managers, and solution architects to drive alignment and innovation.
• People Management and Development: Take full responsibility for managing and supporting the individuals within your teams. Build an environment where engineers feel valued, motivated, and empowered to perform at their best. Conduct regular one-on-ones, provide constructive feedback, and establish Individual Development Plans (IDPs) to help team members grow their skills and achieve their career goals.
• Drive Technical Excellence and Delivery: Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to define, develop, and implement best practices, ensuring efficient processes for delivery, architecture, and team operations.
• Provide Technical Leadership and Oversight: Act as a technical leader by offering architectural oversight and ensuring adherence to scalable, sustainable designs.
• Analyze Metrics and Drive Continuous Improvement: Use quality metrics and development analytics to evaluate team performance and identify opportunities for optimisation.
• Innovate and Stay Current: Stay up to date with the latest tools, frameworks, and development methodologies.
• Promote Transparency and Communication: Foster an open, transparent team environment where feedback flows freely.
• Ownership and Accountability: Take passionate ownership of the software your team builds, ensuring it aligns with business objectives and meets customer needs.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Build strong relationships with peers and collaborators across engineering, product, customer support, and sales teams.

Personal Attributes:

• Experience managing remote stakeholders and working with US-based peers.
• Strong project management and planning skills.
• Strong engineering skills (not required to be hands-on, but ability to perform System Design Reviews if needed).
• Proactivity and curiosity.
• Get things done attitude.
• Experience in similar roles in a high-tech environment.
• Fluency in English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline OR equivalent work experience.
• Excellent organisational communication/collaboration skills since the candidate will be working with cross-functional teams with five different products.
• Proven record of strong project management skills.
• Strong knowledge of software methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Proven success track of tech leadership in at least two companies (engineering management, hiring, mentoring, etc.).
• Strong coaching/mentoring individual contributors and managers/peers.
• Successful candidates are influential leaders who can motivate the team to go far beyond.
• Experience building and architecting highly scalable front-end/back-end applications (React, Java Serverless, and AWS).
• Experience working and collaborating with teams across multiple time zones and geographies.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional Agile teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive working style with the ability to adapt to change.

Total Rewards @ Turnitin:

Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values:

• Customer Centric: We realise our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the centre of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning: We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity: We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin.
• Action & Ownership: We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset: We respect local cultures and embrace diversity.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad:

At Turnitin, we recognise it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfil 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!