ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced technical leader, team leader and people manager to co-lead a cross functional, mission oriented product squad. This hybrid role is perfect for people wishing to remain close to delivery, love building high performing teams and staying close to technology with an element of hands-on contribution (~30% of time).

• As part of the Publishing Infrastructure & Experience squad you will be working on the technology that is at the heart of Which?’s technology platform. Our content publishing and web presentation platform serves millions of users per month. It’s an exciting time, we are transforming our approach to content and data to ensure that we can support the 2030 goals for Which?
• You will be working on the content and data pipelines on which the rest of the engineering teams rely. Performance, reliability and scalability will be some of your favourite words. We are using OpenSearch and event driven architectures on AWS so experience in those areas will be super helpful. The focus is on backend engineering providing APIs and data for other squads to use. Knowing “what good looks like” in API design and experience in building performant APIs will be really useful.
• We want more teams to develop faster with our content platform. As TLM, you will be key to selecting a suitable architecture and determining how we get there incrementally.
• The stack is Typescript, NodeJS or NextJS, React, AWS

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE:

• Team Leadership. Collectively establish a Product Vision for your domain and a strategy to bring your vision to life via daily collaboration with peers including Product Managers, Design Leads, Delivery Managers, User Research, and Experiment Managers. You will set ambitious OKRs for your team and own delivery of impact.
• Tech Leadership. Work with engineers to establish a technical vision and strategy that enables (and in some cases informs) the product vision. Guide the team to make good technical decisions that are aligned with squad objectives and longer term ambition. Able to operate hands-on (30% of the time) at a Senior Engineer level and set the bar for engineering excellence through software design, code reviews, engineering best practices, and knowledge sharing, whilst appreciating that the primary role is to build a great team and support engineers to succeed.
• People Management. You will support 5-7 engineers in the following areas: understanding challenges and providing support, seeking and giving feedback, establishing plans for professional and career growth and pastoral care

THE INTERVIEW PROCESS FOR THIS ROLE INVOLVES:-

• Meet one of our Engineering leadership via video (approximately 60 minutes) -

  (a) Opportunity for you to learn more about the role, answer any questions you have, and provide some examples of providing technical direction across multiple teams and driving product outcomes through technology. (b) Interview on Team/Product Leadership, Culture and People Management

• Technical Take home Test (Typescript)

• System Design & Technical Interview via Video (90 Mins)

• Squad Fit and Product Mindset via Video Meet (60 mins)

  We also have these benefits for you to consider:

• 35 hour working week

• Generous 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays & Option to buy additional days
• Excellent pension scheme – when you pay in 3%, Which? pays in 6% (rising to 11% after one year of service.)
• Discount site Pluxee which offers large %% off every day shopping and holidays
• Annual Award (depending on employee and company performance)
• Healthcare insurance & Private medical insurance and opportunity to participate in Vitality rewards programme (at 6 months)
• A discretionary death in service benefit provision equivalent to six times your annual salary
• Free access to Which? member content and free access to Which? money & legal helplines
• Free wills for all Which? employees, plus, partners of employees can make their will at cost price.
• Work from (almost) anywhere” for 4 weeks of the year policy