Senior Engineering Lead

Moneybox is growing rapidly, and our technical teams are no exception. We have more users, more accounts, more money invested, more features, more code, more data, and more team-members than ever before. We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Lead to help us handle all that growth without compromising on our service or product quality.

This role will be part of the back end engineering leadership team that builds and operates our cloud hosted services. We’re looking for someone who is an experienced manager who has managed the delivery of complex software across multiple teams.

We don’t expect you to be an expert in everything we use, but a fundamental understanding of how things work is important.

Our tech stack:

C# / .NET Core / .NET Framework (being phased out)

REST APIs, Hangfire, MediatR, Entity Framework, Mass Transit, xUnit

Azure: App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Event Hub, CosmosDB, SQL Server, Data Factory

GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Datadog, Rollbar

• Managing software delivery across teams, through individual and team contributions
• Working with our wider business to manage our delivery roadmap, identify dependencies, and clearly communicate progress and changes
• Understands the businesses' goals and drivers and creates/updates our operating models that will allow the department to deliver efficiently and effectively.
• Owning technical solution design for significant product features, software modules, and technical initiatives (both directly and via delegation to your teams)
• Understanding and providing feedback for technical and design requirements
• Managing, coaching, and mentoring 
• Defining clear career development paths for team members and working with other Engineering Leads to apply across team
• Able to run and support any recruitment and onboarding processes required
• Setting high standards, and continually improving how we do things
• Staying abreast of and (where appropriate) applying the latest emerging technologies

• Excited about being part of a fast-growing company that’s trying to make a positive mark on the world
• Knows how to have fun whilst maintaining a professional outlook
• Genuine interest in technology and the practice of software delivery
• A driven, ambitious self-starter
• Learning mindset and motivated to develop skills further
• An experienced, open, trustworthy and conscientious people manager

• Proven track record in a similar role with a background of hands-on software engineering
• Able to actively participate in technical and commercial discussions. A trusted partner to the business
• Experience designing, developing, releasing and maintaining scalable, fault tolerant systems
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Management of system or module deliveries from conception into real-world use
• Building and managing high-performing teams including structured career development for team members
• Coaching and mentoring staff of all levels
• Thorough understanding of:

• Supporting critical live software services

• C# / .NET framework
• Distributed systems, messaging, etc
• Microsoft Azure:
• Cosmos DB
• App Services
• Functions
• Service Bus
• Infrastructure as Code / Terraform
• DDD
• Management of line-managers

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious business.
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals.
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact.
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture.
• Competitive remuneration package.
• Company shares
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working environment
• Home office furniture allowance
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.

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