Multiverse • Copenhagen

Engineering Manager, Copenhagen

Employment type:  Full time

4 days/week at home

A little flex time

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Job Description

We’re on a mission to provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.

We close critical skill gaps in the workforce through a new kind of apprenticeship that combines work and learning. We begin by recognizing high-potential individuals both inside and outside of a company's current workforce and then we create applied, guided and equitable learning programs, with measurable impact. Because we believe the world needs a better way to match its potential.

We work with over 1,500 leading companies including the likes of Microsoft, Citi and Just Eat to help solve their business-critical problems, and we’ve trained over 16,000 professional apprentices in the tech and data skills of the future. This is made possible by our global team who are driven to achieve a mission that matters, together.

Join Multiverse and help us set a new course for work.

Once here, you will be working on:

💻 Technical product, Actively contribute to coding and development tasks

  • Actively contribute to coding and development tasks, maintaining a hands-on role in the creation and refinement of our tech solutions.

  • Utilize your technical expertise to solve complex problems, ensuring the delivery of optimal solutions with careful attention to detail.

  • Ensuring the work your team ships is done with a level of care, safely, with attention to detail, whilst also owning the operational excellence of the team's delivery.

  • Ensuring that incidents are proactively managed to maximise the opportunity to learn and minimise the opportunity for re-occurrence.

  • Driving simplicity and improve our engineering practices and technical quality across the end to end software lifecycle.

  • Arbitrating technical discussions and resolve conflicts within the team.

👨‍👧‍👦 People, Supporting individual growth through coaching & sponsorship

  • Actively developing the people in your team through mentoring and coaching, aligning the growth of engineers with the success of the team.

  • Setting a high bar for individual performance. Leading conversations around what engineers need to demonstrate in order to progress.

  • Hiring and retaining top talent and setting up new joiners for success. Representing your team concisely in calibration conversations.

🛠 Process & culture, fostering inclusive, healthy and high performing teams

  • Creating effective systems and processes to manage delivery. Ensuring a sustainable team velocity by balancing short and long term priorities and implementing processes. Escalating effectively and in a timely manner to the appropriate people.

  • Building a people-first, collaborative and empathetic environment.

A bit about you:

  • You are technically astute and with a desire to solve business problems through simplicity.

  • You are an advocate of servant leadership.

  • You know what good looks like and constantly look to raise the bar on your teams impact through considering people, process and technical aspects.

  • You take ownership for decisions and clearly communicate decisions that deviate from plans.

  • You build a people-first, collaborative and empathetic environment, with feedback at the core.

  • You have a proven track record of managing or mentoring the performance and development of high-performing engineers and have experience in managing through challenging situations.

How we hire

Benefits

  • TIME OFF - 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days and 4 company-wide wellbeing days

  • HYBRID & REMOTE WORK OFFERING - with weekly visits to the Copenhagen office

  • Team fun - team socials, company wide events

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change. Read our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion policy here.

Right to Work

Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Safeguarding

All posts in Multiverse involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.

Company benefits

Health insurance – cover provided by Bupa
Work from anywhere scheme – work for up to 45 days/year abroad
27 days annual leave + bank holidays
Gym membership
Enhanced sick pay
Volunteer days – 2 days/year
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Company shutdown periods
Mental health days
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Life insurance
Salary sacrifice
Share options
Hackathons
Lunch and learns
Employee discounts
M-powered days - Company wide wellbeing days where the whole company shuts down once per quarter.
Location
88%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
75%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
75%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
62%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
69%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
83%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at Multiverse

Company employees

800

Gender diversity (male:female)

45:55

Office locations

London, New York & Remote

Funding levels

$414M

Hiring Countries

Denmark

United Kingdom

United States

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
EdTech & Education

EdTech & Education

Industry awards 2023
Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023

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