Engineering Manager
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- England,London
- full-time
- Competitive salary
Job Description:
The Engineering team at FundApps is a team of ca. 50 smart, friendly people who collaborate closely and take pride in delivering best-in-class software and providing an extraordinary experience to our clients. We’re solving some of the most challenging problems in financial services, building compliance products that are 10x better than what’s on the market. What we do as engineers has a real life impact on thousands of people across the globe!
Apply (by clicking the relevant button) after checking through all the related job information below.
As part of the Engineering team, you’ll be working on a suite of innovative products that monitor over US$19 trillion in assets under management (17% of the global total!) every single day, used by some of the world’s largest Investment Managers.
In Engineering we value professionalism, sustainability, and respect; we hold each other to high standards, give each other considered and constructive feedback, work smart, and look out for each other. Learn more about our engineering culture here!
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Role Overview*
As an Engineering Manager at FundApps, you will be instrumental in delivering outstanding business outcomes by: nurturing and developing our exceptional engineering talent; driving high performance; and fostering a culture of inclusivity and collaboration. Your key responsibilities will include:
*People & Talent*
* Lead the hiring and onboarding of new FundAppers
* Retain and develop top-tier talent within the engineering team
* Maintain a high bar for individual and team performance
* Manage and align individual growth trajectories with team and business objectives.
* Participate in the annual review and promotion process, providing insights and feedback to support career development within the engineering team
* Create an inclusive environment that enables each team member to perform at their best
*Engineering delivery culture*
* Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and decisiveness within the team
* Live the FundApps and Engineering values and seek the same in your people and teams
* Promote transparency at all levels, and with all stakeholders
* Empower engineers to make sound decisions regarding design, implementation, and operational concerns
* Own (and iterate on) team delivery process, including planning, work breakdown, retrospectives, pre-mortems, and risk assessments
* Keep your team on track, ensuring consistent and predictable delivery of meaningful value
* Build and maintain excellent relationships with peers across various departments (product, client success, content, etc.) to align on delivery decisions and foster collaboration.
*Technical management*
* Facilitate architectural oversight and review of key technical decisions through activities such as architecture reviews and Show & Tell sessions.
* Take ownership of support rotas, on-call duties, and incident resolution, overseeing remediation efforts and conducting Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) as needed.
*Qualifications and Skills*
* 2+ years of engineering management experience, complemented by demonstrable, relevant software development experience within a dynamic tech environment
* Adaptable in leadership style, capable of flexing to accommodate diverse work methodologies as needed.
* Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence decisions across various stakeholders.A track record of technical leadership, with expertise in building products that solve real business problems.
* Experience of fostering an inclusive and engaging team cultureProven experience of identifying, retaining, nurturing, and acquiring top talent.
* Knowledge of our tech stack is desirable, but not a must - cloud experience is a definite advantage!
*Our Tech Stack*
* Back-end: C#
* Data storage: PostgreSQL; Amazon storage including Aurora, DynamoDB, S3
* Infrastructure: Terraform & AWS, using Fargate, Lambdas, Step functions, and a lot more!
* Pipeline: GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Serverless
* Front-end: React, TypeScript
*How we live the FundApps values*
#Be-Transparent: Default to maximum transparency with your direct reports, your team and stakeholders. Do so with respect and care, and you’re on to a winner
* #Have-courage: Lean into difficult conversations. Avoiding awkwardness can let situations fester, bad habits be reinforced. Practice giving, and receiving feedback often. Be direct, and don’t forget you’re speaking to another person: aspire to compassion.
* #Raise-the-bar: Grow yourself by investing time in your skills and learning (let go of your old tools, invest in the new toolbox you will need!). Help your people improve and grow, and inspire them to improve their code, tools, and systems.
* #Do-more-with-less: Time is your most precious resource. Prioritisation, focus and delegation are the tools of our job!
* #Work-With-Purpose: Be determined, be curious - think of situations that arise as opportunities for problem solving. Things will go wrong - we learn, improve - and move on!
£105,000 - £120,000 a year
dependent on experience
*A couple of important details*
We require permission to work in the UK without sponsorship. This is a permanent role (not open to contracting work). We work hybrid and expect new FundAppers to work at our shiny London office 3 days per week during their probation period to make the most of getting to know the business and other FundAppers.
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About FundApps*
FundApps is a company powered by experts, with a client community of 1000s and a culture underpinned by ethics. Oh - and we make the best regulatory software so our clients can “get a good night’s sleep now they have FundApps"[real client quote].
Many lawyers, ex-regulators, info sec and other experts work for the B Corp that is FundApps. We are all about future-proofing our compliance monitoring and reporting software so we can always monitor the £19trn (and growing) of AuM for the industry’s most active and happy global compliance community [we get top notch NPS + CSAT scores year after year].
Good people, good business, good ethics. We are FundApps.
*Life at FundApps*
Work/life balance with flexible hybrid working
Wellbeing benefits such as private health insurance, a flexible stipend, mental health coaching and a Headspace subscription
Matched pension contribution up to 10%
Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
£1,000 learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave
Peer-led ’Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions and an annual Learning Festival
25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years
5 Years @ FundApps - additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper
26 weeks leave for all new parents
Apply (by clicking the relevant button) after checking through all the related job information below.
As part of the Engineering team, you’ll be working on a suite of innovative products that monitor over US$19 trillion in assets under management (17% of the global total!) every single day, used by some of the world’s largest Investment Managers.
In Engineering we value professionalism, sustainability, and respect; we hold each other to high standards, give each other considered and constructive feedback, work smart, and look out for each other. Learn more about our engineering culture here!
*
Role Overview*
As an Engineering Manager at FundApps, you will be instrumental in delivering outstanding business outcomes by: nurturing and developing our exceptional engineering talent; driving high performance; and fostering a culture of inclusivity and collaboration. Your key responsibilities will include:
*People & Talent*
* Lead the hiring and onboarding of new FundAppers
* Retain and develop top-tier talent within the engineering team
* Maintain a high bar for individual and team performance
* Manage and align individual growth trajectories with team and business objectives.
* Participate in the annual review and promotion process, providing insights and feedback to support career development within the engineering team
* Create an inclusive environment that enables each team member to perform at their best
*Engineering delivery culture*
* Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and decisiveness within the team
* Live the FundApps and Engineering values and seek the same in your people and teams
* Promote transparency at all levels, and with all stakeholders
* Empower engineers to make sound decisions regarding design, implementation, and operational concerns
* Own (and iterate on) team delivery process, including planning, work breakdown, retrospectives, pre-mortems, and risk assessments
* Keep your team on track, ensuring consistent and predictable delivery of meaningful value
* Build and maintain excellent relationships with peers across various departments (product, client success, content, etc.) to align on delivery decisions and foster collaboration.
*Technical management*
* Facilitate architectural oversight and review of key technical decisions through activities such as architecture reviews and Show & Tell sessions.
* Take ownership of support rotas, on-call duties, and incident resolution, overseeing remediation efforts and conducting Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) as needed.
*Qualifications and Skills*
* 2+ years of engineering management experience, complemented by demonstrable, relevant software development experience within a dynamic tech environment
* Adaptable in leadership style, capable of flexing to accommodate diverse work methodologies as needed.
* Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence decisions across various stakeholders.A track record of technical leadership, with expertise in building products that solve real business problems.
* Experience of fostering an inclusive and engaging team cultureProven experience of identifying, retaining, nurturing, and acquiring top talent.
* Knowledge of our tech stack is desirable, but not a must - cloud experience is a definite advantage!
*Our Tech Stack*
* Back-end: C#
* Data storage: PostgreSQL; Amazon storage including Aurora, DynamoDB, S3
* Infrastructure: Terraform & AWS, using Fargate, Lambdas, Step functions, and a lot more!
* Pipeline: GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Serverless
* Front-end: React, TypeScript
*How we live the FundApps values*
#Be-Transparent: Default to maximum transparency with your direct reports, your team and stakeholders. Do so with respect and care, and you’re on to a winner
* #Have-courage: Lean into difficult conversations. Avoiding awkwardness can let situations fester, bad habits be reinforced. Practice giving, and receiving feedback often. Be direct, and don’t forget you’re speaking to another person: aspire to compassion.
* #Raise-the-bar: Grow yourself by investing time in your skills and learning (let go of your old tools, invest in the new toolbox you will need!). Help your people improve and grow, and inspire them to improve their code, tools, and systems.
* #Do-more-with-less: Time is your most precious resource. Prioritisation, focus and delegation are the tools of our job!
* #Work-With-Purpose: Be determined, be curious - think of situations that arise as opportunities for problem solving. Things will go wrong - we learn, improve - and move on!
£105,000 - £120,000 a year
dependent on experience
*A couple of important details*
We require permission to work in the UK without sponsorship. This is a permanent role (not open to contracting work). We work hybrid and expect new FundAppers to work at our shiny London office 3 days per week during their probation period to make the most of getting to know the business and other FundAppers.
*
About FundApps*
FundApps is a company powered by experts, with a client community of 1000s and a culture underpinned by ethics. Oh - and we make the best regulatory software so our clients can “get a good night’s sleep now they have FundApps"[real client quote].
Many lawyers, ex-regulators, info sec and other experts work for the B Corp that is FundApps. We are all about future-proofing our compliance monitoring and reporting software so we can always monitor the £19trn (and growing) of AuM for the industry’s most active and happy global compliance community [we get top notch NPS + CSAT scores year after year].
Good people, good business, good ethics. We are FundApps.
*Life at FundApps*
Work/life balance with flexible hybrid working
Wellbeing benefits such as private health insurance, a flexible stipend, mental health coaching and a Headspace subscription
Matched pension contribution up to 10%
Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
£1,000 learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave
Peer-led ’Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions and an annual Learning Festival
25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years
5 Years @ FundApps - additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper
26 weeks leave for all new parents
Job number 1439133