About the Company
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team and create technology products that help people have the best healthcare experience they have ever had. We are looking for someone with a passion for technology and people, who wants to create amazing products. The ideal candidate will be someone who has deep technical expertise across a range of technologies, a track record of delivery, along with experience in building high-performance teams.
About the Role
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team and create technology products that help people have the best healthcare experience they have ever had.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and support a team of Software Engineers in the development and maintenance of technology products
- Working with Product Management, develop the long-term strategy for your team and translate it into achievable goals
- Understanding how all architectural elements of the software ecosystem work together and develop engineering and testing approaches that fit the overall strategy
- Push for decisions to be made effectively and remove blockers that impede team progress. Drive team goals forward by organising the team's work and setting appropriate milestones.
- Deliver regular updates within the team and to leadership
- Build an excellent relationship with relevant colleagues (engineering, product, design, data, etc) to deliver collaboratively and align on key strategic decisions.
- Proactively escalate issues in a timely manner with delivery to appropriate colleagues
- Foster a culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Empower engineers to achieve a high bar of engineering excellence in their work, creating space for testing, automation, observability, documentation and other important concerns.
- Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices.
- Keep the team directionally aligned with their goals.
- Create effective systems for managing work and maintain a healthy shipping cadence by balancing short and long term priorities, and appropriately unblocking others when needed.
- Encourage innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing your objectives.
- Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to company-wide best delivery, managerial and technical practices and standards.
Qualifications
- Degree/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent of education/work experience
- 7+ years as a software engineer (profession/academic) across a range of technologies (ideally include Java, Javascript), including building distributed systems
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineering manager building, leading and developing exceptional teams in the development of complex systems
Required Skills
- Must have extensive experience in full‑stack Java development, with proven ability to influence architecture decisions, guide engineering teams, and drive high‑quality delivery
- Experience designing software architectures for scalability, reliability and performance
- Experience building a product from concept to prototype and implementation
- Experience developing cloud software services
- Computer Science fundamentals experience in data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Proven knowledge and experience of agile delivery processes
- Experience in recruiting, managing and coaching Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective.
- Experience in communicating with users, teams, and senior management to understand outcomes, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Able to work in a complex organisation, maintaining resilience during transformation
- A curious and highly flexible thinker who enjoys a challenge
Preferred Skills
- Experience in treating customers fairly by making the fair treatment of customers central to all organisational changes, procedural changes and policy decisions that you make, approve or oversee.
- Always demonstrating fair customer treatment to other employees – leading by example.
- Rewarding the fair treatment of customers by other employees.
- Being able to explain the impact that your role and actions have on the fair treatment of customers.
- Being able to explain the potential implications for customers who are not treated fairly by you or others.
- Always seeking to be competent to do your job e.g. by completing all compulsory regulatory training on time to ensure that you have all the necessary knowledge and skills.
- Always seeking to help those people who work for you to be competent to do their jobs e.g. by ensuring that they complete all compulsory regulatory training on time.
Pay range and compensation package
Details regarding pay range or salary or compensation will be provided during the interview process.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices and strive to create an environment where everyone feels valued and respected.
