Engineering Manager

Team: Tech
Hours: Full time
Reports to: CTO
Location: Exeter or Bristol, minimum of 3 days in the office.

Role Overview:

DeGould is an exciting, multi-award-winning company, in the software and AI sector. The company develops and delivers innovative vision and damage detection systems to a range of blue-chip corporate clients (including Toyota, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Honda and Bentley).
As the company embarks on an exciting growth phase the company plans to expand the team, further develop existing products, and explore opportunities for new ones.
DeGould requires an Engineering Manager, who is willing to manage a team of software engineers (and to lead other disciplines as required by our Product Led model) whilst maintaining a close personal connection to the code and technical discipline at the core of our delivery.

Our Vision:
DeGould’s vision is to be the standard for new vehicle inspection in the automotive sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing stakeholder communications, including liaising with customers and contractors.
• Building a detailed understanding of customer requirements, documenting and disseminating.
• Owning the team’s delivery plan, tracking and reporting weekly progress, resource planning.
• Identifying and implementing the processes needed to scale the function.
• Leading a Product team in the Engineering Manager role – working closely with the Product Owner/Manager for the team in application of Agile principles.
• Line Management of staff within the Software function. Providing clear feedback to team members and listening to their concerns, directing them to help and escalating as necessary.
• Running tracked 121 sessions with your direct reports.
• Build strong relationships and work alongside peers from Product, ML and Engineering.
• Create a culture of ownership and accountability within the team.
• Foster healthy dynamic within your teams, leading on resolving interpersonal conflicts

Skills:

• Managing a team towards the technical delivery of high quality software applications.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively with employees and stakeholders at all levels.
• A champion for agile methodologies and working cross-functionally.
• A passion for technology and software development, advocating modern practices and ways of working.
• Fluent in cloud technologies and services, in particular AWS core services (ECS, Lambda, S3 etc.)
• Good understanding of microservice and event driven architectures.
• Ability to lead, coach and develop software engineers.

Behaviours:
As an employee of DeGould Ltd, you are required to meet a number of common standards of behaviour, accountabilities and outcomes.

In addition, and in relation to this role it is expected that the successful candidate will exhibit these behaviours:

• Empathy – able to put themselves in the shoes of others.
• Creative – Open to new ideas and demonstrates good design skills in their work.
• Analytical – capable of working through the detail when required.
• Flexible – thriving in a fast paced, changing and opportunity rich environment.
• Collaborative – enthusiastically works with colleagues and customers alike.
• Dependable – deliver on stakeholder commitments in a timely manner.

Benefits:
Competitive salary and benefits including:

• 25 days holiday per annum (excluding bank holidays).
• Additional days holiday for birthday.
• Company sick pay scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Pension auto enrolment after 3 months service.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Health insurance with Vitality for employee, spouse and children.
• Flexible working can be agreed.

Please note, no additional recruitment support is required at this time, thank you.