Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pitchup.com is an award-winning and quickly expanding travel site making it easy to book camping, glamping and caravan sites all over the world. The Engineering Manager will oversee a team of software engineers, focusing on product development, team management, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.
Responsibilities
- People management - giving the team structure and purpose to their work
- Accelerating product development - streamlining development process, introducing best practices and agile methodologies
- Being on top of monitoring performance metrics
- Fixing issues - eliminating the roadblocks and keeping the workflow and productivity smooth
- Updates - providing transparent and regular updates
- Project management - avoiding frustrations and inefficiency by providing clear goals/guidance with realistic steps
- Release management - be actively involved in testing, deployment and post deployment
- Code quality assurance - striving for quality, preventing problems and building consistency
- Recruiting - hiring the right talent at the right time
- Navigating conflicts - while adapting to changes in technology and business needs
- Presenting practical input to strategic technology decisions and technology roadmap
- Keeping abreast of new software technologies
- Being available, during peak season, to act swiftly so the business can continue to provide great user experiences
Skills
- 5 - 7 years of experience in software development and team management
- Previous experience of reporting to a Founder or Senior Leadership team or a career history of working in small, high growth scale up organisations over larger corporations
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information systems, information technology, or similar
- In-depth knowledge of Python (at least 7+ years) and understanding of JavaScript/Vue.js and the rest of our tech stack
- Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions
- Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics
- Knowledge of best practice
- Ideally worked for an e-commerce, online marketplace or OTA business
- It would be great if you follow some of our key values/behaviours: Bias to Action, Conscientious, Professional Integrity, Results focused, Initiative and responsibility, Logical thinking, Reaction time: speed of response to key information
Benefits
- £500 to spend annually on learning & development at Udemy and whatever software you need
- Choice of technology
- Work-from-home office equipment allowance
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
- Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection - for peace of mind
- Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
- Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
- Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to, with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling
- Enhanced paternity and maternity leave
- Cycle to work scheme
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