Software Engineering Manager

at  Good Growth Limited

Location: Birmingham, UK (>= 1 day per week) with the occasional requirement to travel to clients’ offices (which are currently in the UK, Europe and the US)
Home working vs. office: we are flexible with regard to home working vs. office; we want you to work where you do your best work. As a guide, across our business we will typically do 1 or 2 days a week in the office. In the early stages of your career with us, we may ask you to be in the office more, but we will always seek to be accommodating (e.g. childcare; appointments; etc.).

To deliver on our mission, we have, over the last ~10 years, built a technology platform that facilitates rapid online innovation. We have a team of engineers who use this platform day-to-day to deliver experiences (you can think of these as tests) for our clients. This role is to manage those engineers.
This role will be suited to someone who is energised by managing people and seeing them grow - both personally and professionally - and thrive in all aspects of their career. In addition, the ideal candidate must have a deep passion for technology and creative problem solving.
This role does not involve coding day-to-day but we do require someone with very high technical proficiency (particularly in web technologies) due to an important part of this role being to both advise and unblock your team on an hoc basis. This advice will be set against the backdrop of web technologies but it will be given within the context of using our platform. This means you must be willing to become very familiar with said platform - its idioms, etc. - such that (i) you can give the best advice possible, and (ii) you can feed into the platform team (i.e. the team who maintains the platform) when there is a missing feature/bug/etc.
In addition to managing your team you will look outwards into (i) the business (e.g. working with Account Management to make sure we are delivering what we’ve committed to deliver), and (ii) the outside world (i.e. interacting directly with clients, both existing ones and those that are at the start of their relationship with Good Growth). You will report directly into the CTO.