Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

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:

👨‍👧‍👦 Our 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 and laying out meaningful development goals and milestones for your reports. 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.

💻 Technical Product

• Improving and maturing our engineering practices and technical quality across the end to end software lifecycle.

• Driving and facilitating the transition towards a DevOps culture, fostering a mindset of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.

• Arbitrating technical discussions and resolving conflicts within the team.

• Building an excellent relationship with peers in the team [Design, Product, etc.] and aligning on key decisions.

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

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

• Engage in hands-on technical contributions when required, leveraging expertise to resolve complex technical challenges and provide guidance to the team.

🛠 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.

• Organising the team's work by setting appropriate milestones and creating a culture of ownership within the team. Pushes for decision making at the lowest level and unblocks the team when barriers arise.

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

• Collaborating in organisational design, ensuring the right sizing of the team to deliver on team and company goals, and setting the foundations for the healthy growth of Product and Engineering.

A bit about you:

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

• You are knowledgeable in cloud infrastructure, information security, platform engineering, and developer experience.

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

Benefits

• Time off - 27 days holiday, plus 7 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days and 4 company-wide wellbeing days

• Health & Wellness- private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership & wellness resources through Gympass and access to Spill - all in one mental health support

• Hybrid & remote work offering - with weekly or monthly visits to the London office and the opportunity to work abroad 45 days a year

• Team fun - weekly socials, company wide events and office snacks!

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.

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.