Software Engineering Team Lead at AnyVan

• We're looking for an engineering manager, with a strong technical background, who isn’t afraid to own business critical problems. 
• We’re an agile organisation - while most of our teams use scrum with two week sprints, we’re not prescriptive and encourage engineering managers and product managers to adapt processes to match their team. We believe strongly in delivering business value, and our engineering managers will regularly interact with stakeholders from all backgrounds and seniority - all the way up to board members - to ensure the team is aligned with the broader business.
• We're a cloud-first organisation, with AWS being our cloud provider of choice, and our preferred programming languages are Java - with Spring - and Javascript - using Vue.js. We’re not against exploring other languages where appropriate, with other projects using Python and TypeScript. And of course, no scale up would be complete without a legacy PHP stack we’re slowly migrating away from! Well, no-one’s perfect…

What you'll be doing:

• 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
• Manage a small but high performing team that delivers solutions rapidly and to high quality, ensuring you have the right people in place, supporting their development through consistent feedback and stretch objectives to high performers
• Collaborate closely with product to enable your team to specify, prioritise and deliver high quality solutions which solve important business problems
• Work closely with 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
• 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 that will set you up for success in the role:

• 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 a passion for working with our tech stack ( Java with spring, javascript, Vue.Js, Python, PHP)
• A strong bias to action and accountability mindset to deliver results
• A fail fast learn quick mentality
• A passion for and success in directly managing high performing technical teams
• 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