Engineering Manager with hands-on solid capabilities in Python backend web systems (Django or Flask) development, cloud, and CI / CD, as this role incorporates both hands-on technical leadership/engineering standards and Team/People Management for an engineering team of eight people, is required by fast-growing financial service business with dynamic start-up/fintech culture to develop/ scale/ refactor their internal and client facing platforms as the company is going through a rapid growth curve.
This role is Hybrid with 1/2 days per week in their London Soho office.
The role would suit a hands-on Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, with significant experience in technical leadership, managing teams and technical delivery, and a strong Python backend web development skill set.
Salary Circa £130-150k + Benefits
Key skills required as the Engineering Manager (Hands-On) Python / Django
- Previous experience of technically leading a line managing a Python web development team, ideally in a start-up/scale-up / fast-growing environment scaling systems.
- Background designing and implementing Python / (Django or Flask), web applications and API’s GraphQL or Django Rest Framework, utilising various tools and technologies.
- Experience in scaling/refactoring/ researching new technologies and practices
- Experience with cloud technologies and platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design/architecture, development and deployment).
- Proven experience with CI /CD
- Some Front-end framework experience, such as Typescript / React.
- A passion for developing your team’s careers and skills. You take the time to understand your team’s career goals and what is important to them to foster an engineering culture.
- Strong academic background / with a degree in Computer Science / STEM.
What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager (Hands-On) Python / Django
- Technically lead and line manage a focused squad of around 8 Engineers remoting to the CTO; promote growth through feedback, help each team member achieve their potential, and support your team.
- Play a hands-on role in critical design and implementation decisions to scale the systems, code reviews, research, and write high-quality, well-tested code that solves challenging problems and scales the platform.
- Technically led the engineers developing backend services and Python, Django, and APIs using GraphQL or Django REST. Led frontend team-building applications using React and Typescript.
- Scale the engineering team through hiring, developing career paths, and developing professional development opportunities.
- Ensure the team develops software applications that adhere to architecture, coding standards, best practices, QA, and project requirements.
- Ensure project and sprint milestones are achieved
- Scrum master duties, as required
- Identify technical debt and inefficiencies in existing systems and propose improvement solutions.
- Ensure appropriate testing support is in place: Drive the implementation of automated testing, continuous integration, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and quality.
- Shape our onboarding processes and mentorship program to help set our engineers up for success, develop their skills, and create learning opportunities.
This new role is an outstanding chance to flex your technical and leadership skills and join a fast-growing business with big ambitions, reporting directly to the CTO.
Opus Resourcing acts as an employment agency with respect to permanent employment.
