Engineering Manager

Role: Engineering Manager Industry: FinTech Location: UK Remote Salary: £100,000 - £110,000 basic £6k car Benefits: 15-30% bonus, up to 15% equity based on performance 9% pension Max total comp £181k The company: Wedo has partnered with a global leader in digital payment technology, facilitating more than $150 billion to over 180 countries, working with banks, financial institutions and FinTech’s around the world, including Starling Bank and Revolut. The team: In the last 6 months, they’ve grown their Engineering Manager community by an additional 7 EM’s and they’re looking to add 3 more. You will be reporting to a Director of Engineering and leading a team of 4 software engineers, 2QAs, a Delivery Manager a Product Manager, and lead their Market Data team. Market Data team is responsible for aggregating and integrating market data from various sources, developing and maintaining algorithms for real-time exchange rates, and handling large volumes of market data. Team: 4 Software Engineers, 2 QA’s, ADM Product Manager How they define the EM role: If you follow Pat Kua and his 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes , they see their role in between the Tech Lead Manager and the Team Lead Manager. They believe that their managers must have a technical background to have productive conversations with their engineers, but they don’t expect you to be coding all the time. Your experience: Experienced Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or Team Lead in a regulated environment Mathematically minded and comfortably processes lots of financial data Experience working with high-availability environments Must have extensive Systems design thinking that includes scalability, disaster recovery, containerization, automation, observability and clustered systems. Passionate about quality with comprehensive test coverage (unit, component, integration, and contract tests). Experience working for Product-oriented organisations and experience working with strong product managers on complex products. A software development background in either Java, Scala, or Ruby. Clear and concise communication skills, capable of explaining complex tasks to non-technical stakeholders. Has used DORA metrics. Proficiency with Kafka and Databases – MySQL (Aurora) and/or RDBMS. Encourages TDD, BDD, 3 Amigo’s, Pairing, and Contract testing Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes Hiring Process: 1st Stage: 45-minute Hiring Manager Screening Call 2nd Stage: 1-hour Leadership Assessment 3rd Stage: 1-hour System Design Thinking 4th Stage: 1-hour Ways of Working & Cultural Fit To apply, please connect with Jack Cole and hit apply today. Don’t feel like you hit all of the above criteria? We’d still love to hear from you We encourage you to apply for the position and state the reasons why you feel you’d be a great fit and what experience could add real value to the role. If you want more information, please email jack.colewedotech.uk