Engineering Manager

About this role

Engineering builds and runs TalentOS — the hiring platform this careers site is itself running on. Job search, the application flow, the recruiter console, and the services underneath all of it.

Lead a team of six to eight engineers across the hiring platform. You will still read code and join design reviews; you will not be the person writing most of it.

The platform is multi-tenant and the correctness bar is unusually high for a product of its size: an application that goes missing is somebody's career, not a support ticket. Traffic is spiky by nature — a campus placement season concentrates a year of applications into a fortnight — so capacity and queueing are ordinary design concerns rather than scaling exotica.

Primary responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers: their growth, their performance, and whether the work they do is worth doing
• Own delivery for the team's area — the sequencing, the dependencies, and the honest conversation when a date is not going to hold
• Run one-to-ones that are about the person rather than a status update, and write the feedback down
• Hire for the team and own the bar, including the decision to keep looking
• Stay technical enough to read a design document properly and ask the question that matters
• Handle the parts of management that are not pleasant — a performance conversation, a reorganisation, a project that has to be stopped

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Node.js, Leadership, Hiring and Delivery.

• Two or more years managing engineers, including performance conversations you handled well
• A strong enough technical background to disagree usefully in a design review
• Two or more years managing engineers, with the difficult conversations that come with it