Engineering Manager

at  Motorway

ABOUT US:

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace - our award-winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal.Founded in 2017, our technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of more than 400 people across our London and Brighton offices.

REQUIREMENTS

• Solid and demonstrable experience leading engineering teams.
• You are able to whiteboard technical solutions and system design, know good engineering practices and patterns.
• You’re able to triage and identify issues within the system and prevent issues from occurring.
• You are an engineering leader who embraces servant leadership principles.
• You see team success as your number one goal!
• Outstanding communication skills.

• Develop high performing teams – Mentoring and promoting career growth by providing feedback, learning & development opportunities to your team. This includes keep close tabs on the team’s health.
• Be a technology leader – You’ll be the technical sounding for your team with a strong focus on quality, performance, reliability, scalability & maintainability. This is not a hands-on role but you should be able to drive system design and architectural solutions.
• You will own the delivery of the projects end to end. This means taking ambiguous requirements and breaking them down into high level milestones which will help your squad deliver value iteratively.
• You will be part of the EM guild that works with the Heads of Engineering to set standards around best practices. This can span from planning, coding, design, quality, monitoring, deployment and security practices. You will be accountable to implement these practices in your squads
• Drive design and planning activities by removing ambiguities, resolving dependent question and providing high level engineering estimates
• Guide your squads through execution — You will guide your squad to run agile ceremonies on a day-to-day basis. Being accountable for your team’s backlog, helping them balance technical debt work and feature deliverables.