Engineering Manager - Cape Town at AnyVan

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate closely with a Product to enable your team to specify, prioritise and deliver high quality solutions which solve important business problems
• Champion the team to senior leadership, highlighting organisational blockers and aligning everyone around the team’s priorities, as well as flagging where the team needs additional input or support
• Ensure the technical direction of the team matches the business strategy, balancing technical debt and non-functional requirements with a need to execute quickly and iteratively
• Build an effective team - ensuring you have the right people in place, taking responsibility for the growth and personal development of team members while giving necessary feedback
• Help energise and invigorate AnyVan and your team’s technical culture, both through day to day interactions, as well as working with the Head of Engineering and CTO on our technical strategy.

Skills and experience you'll need to be successful in the role:

• Strong expertise and success in directly managing high performing technical teams
• Experience working in a fast paced consumer focused business
• Experience working in a scale up or within a marketplace would be advantageous but not essential
• Deep experience with cloud technologies (ideally AWS) and exposure to Java with spring, javascript, Vue.Js, Python, PHP would be advantageous
• Able to build excellent relationships and influence key stakeholders (internally and externally) to consistently deliver against key projects  
• Genuine passion for the end product and delivering outstanding technical solutions with pragmatic, logical and maintainable code 
• Familiar with software architecture patterns, database optimisations, infrastructure, scalability and deployment 
• A broad understanding of the software development lifecycle and practical hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery & QA
• Experience working in and driving an Agile development environment