Engineering Manager

Job Description

About Us

Every day, we push beyond expectations to help millions of people save money, at a time when it’s never mattered more. Through MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, Quidco and our B2B partnerships we supply products to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households to save billions of pounds a year. Can you tell this is something we’re exceptionally proud of!

Creative, collaborative, ambitious – it’s hard work. But what makes it worth it? Leaving work knowing we’ve made a difference to our customers, users, and to each other.

Put our distinct brands together with our dedicated colleagues and you’ve got a workplace with lots of personality. We’re open-minded, diverse, and love our differences. Everyone plays a part, and comes together to work hard, go beyond, and make sure everyone feels they belong.

Our Technology team is growing, and we're hiring for an experienced Engineering Manager. Join us to start going beyond comparison.

Insight into the role

Engineering Managers are responsible for the engine of delivery at Moneysupermarket. You ensure teams and engineers are impactful, aligned in their direction and building communication and trust. You champion forward-thinking decision making and help teams take ownership of customer outcomes from project to product. You’ll help us to continually improve and drive more ways for our customers to save money.

Our Engineering Managers have a background in software development, but the role is hands-off and you are not expected to be committing code.

How you’ll spend your day

• Facilitating high performing teams: Ensuring individuals operate as a team, aligning direction, communication, and trust to reach their goals.
• Ensuring teams iteratively deliver and prioritize work correctly and continually improve ways of working.
• Aligning teams to technical roadmap: Ensuring teams are adequately resourced and moving engineers to teams where necessary to make the most impact.
• Ensuring teams deliver safely and with a level of care and craftsmanship.
• Improving engineering quality and efficiency:
• Ensuring the process for managing and tracking work is effective and continuously improving.
• Collaborating with cross-functional peers and leaders: Building relationships with the wider EM community, learning from each other, and understanding where other teams can help.
• Developing, inspiring, and mentoring individual engineers: Providing feedback, holding regular 1:1s, and supporting individual progression, performance, growth, and well-being.
• Coaching individuals to improve their skills.
• Attracting and retaining talent: Leading the recruitment of engineers, ensuring a high bar for candidates and diversity in recruitment decisions.
• Collaborating and fostering psychological safety: Ensuring the team works effectively, with high levels of collaboration, shared ownership, and accountability.
• Driving an inclusive environment with psychological safety and trust, where team members feel safe to speak out, ask questions, and challenge each other.

What value you’ll bring to the role

• You've been a software engineer and you know the challenges and blockers that teams face every day.
• You’re experienced working with - and have a passion for - mentoring teams and enabling them to become high performing.
• You love helping engineers to grow and develop, learn better ways of doing things and improve their skills and have proven experience of doing so.
• You’re an expert agile software development practitioner, both development practices (e.g. TDD, CI/CD) and approaches to delivery.
• You value building long lasting relationships, can quickly establish trust, inspire individuals and communicate optimally.
• You care about diversity and inclusion and creating an inclusive culture which nurtures diversity of thought.
• You have a growth mindset, love learning how you can get better and fostering this attitude in others.

Why switch to us

We're a hybrid organisation, spending 2-days per week in the office to get the best of team collaboration and allowing you to work where you see best. We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education, and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

What rewards are on offer

• Up to 30 holidays + bank holidays
• Pension up to 6% employer contribution
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents
• Digital Doctor on demand
• Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year
• Financial coaching
• Mental health platform access

How we’ll invest in you

We’re invested in your development. Expect mentorship, training, and opportunities to expand your skill set, including access to your own individual LinkedIn Learning license with access to over 16,000 courses.

Interview process

• A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
• An interview split with questions related to being an EM and our Group behaviours (we provide these in advance) plus a scenario based exercise
• A final stage with our CTO

At MONY Group, we believe in the strength of diversity and see inclusion as a strategic advantage. Our values guide us in creating a workplace where fairness and equity is a reality for all. We’re committed to minimising systemic bias and creating a level playing field for all candidates.

Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process, no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs. Unsure what to ask for? We can guide you through available accommodations.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know more before applying such as more on hybrid working, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at tom.wood@mongroup.com

We believe that success isn’t solely defined by ticking boxes on a skills checklist. We encourage your application, so we can discover your skills and experience that will help you succeed in this role.