AutoRek

Reporting to the Head of Software Delivery, the Engineering Manager is responsible for technical leadership for their Feature Delivery team and the technical oversight of all software output of that team. This position requires excellent software engineering skills, interpersonal skills and an ability to build relationships with key stakeholders, an understanding of our technology stack and the core product, and a dedication to producing high-quality results.

Key Responsibilities

• Writes high-quality, performant, secure, tested documented code and creates other technical content for AutoRek using our development stack
• Participates and can lead in review processes, suggesting improvements and addressing review issues, fixing bugs and dealing with support issues when needed
• Key player in the team, leading the team to deliver tasks by completing own work and helping others
• Presents progress against goals to team and company for example in Town Hall updates
• Build relationships with key stakeholders
• Aligning stakeholders and team members with the vision

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Relevant experience and qualifications:

3-5 years experience in a senior-capacity in an equivalent role

A track record of successful software deliverables

Excellent Lead Software Engineering skills:

Capturing requirements, writing specifications for complex systems to be constructed

Software development languages: C# / Javascript / T-SQL / Markdown / Html+CSS/LESS / Powershell / YAML / Groovy

Breadth and depth of coverage with particular strength in Web-based UI / .NET / SQL Server / Windows stack. ASP.NET / Razor / Blazor also helpful ·

Using Visual Studio and/or Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, Git, SSMS

Planning and time use:

• Collaborates with team, product management and other key stakeholders across the business to understand the product requirements, features, architecture, and functionality and determine priorities and feed into the task list for the quarter
• Manages multiple complex and competing tasks and priorities, often finding commonalities or innovative solutions that work across domains
• Reliably meets deadlines, taking necessary steps to course correct or deal with issues
• Alert to risks to deliverables, promptly handles and takes preventative actions to head off future issues before they arise

Working with management:

• Works effectively to achieve the goals of the team and department, consulting regularly with management line
• Keeps team up-to-date with status in daily stand-ups and through task and issue tracking

Effective team work:

• Contributes to the team, meeting goals through delivering own goals and successfully leading and consistently delivering on code and other engineering output of highly ambitious and potentially ambiguous scope, high complexity and critical business impact.
• Demonstrates ability to work effectively independently and unsupervised for extended periods of time
• Seeks out review of own and team work to ensure correctness and consistency

Benefits

Our people make AutoRek and we want to support and show our appreciation to our people by providing the following:

• Annual leave package - 26 days, plus public holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday (even if it falls on a weekend)
• The option to buy extra annual leave days
• Flexible working arrangements to suit your lifestyle
• Annual Company & Personal Performance Bonus Awards
• Employee Nominated On-The Spot Bonus Program
• Employee-Referral Scheme
• Private healthcare & hospital cash plan that covers our employees’ partners and dependents
• Group Life Insurance
• Income Protection
• Length of service awards
• Regular team-building events and monthly all-staff updates from our CEO
• Opportunities for professional development and growth
• Free financial advisory services
• Byond cashback card – Cashback on purchases from your local high street retailers
• Salary sacrifice cycle scheme – Our cycle to work benefit-pay nothing upfront and save on the cost of a brand-new bike and accessorise. All while saving the planet by reducing your carbon footprint.

About AutoRek

AutoRek is a financial data management platform enabling companies to streamline and automate complex and high-volume data management and controls processes. Our customers range from innovative FinTech start-ups to many of the UK and the world’s largest and established banks, asset managers and insurance companies. Digital data and financial transaction volumes are growing exponentially, this combined with increasing regulatory obligations is driving the demand for improved efficiencies, better control, and management of risk across the financial services industry. The AutoRek platform meets these demands and more and that is why we continue to be a leading player in the market.