Engineering Manager- Platform Services

Addepar; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a passionate software engineering leader to join their Platform Services team. This role is crucial for enhancing the scalability and efficiency of their wealth management technology. You will have the opportunity to shape ambitious product features, mentor a talented team, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver impactful solutions. If you thrive on solving complex challenges and are excited about driving innovation in financial technology, this position offers a unique chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering and team leadership.
• Strong background in managing software projects and agile processes.

Responsibilities

• Shape product features and improve scalability of the platform.
• Coach and mentor software engineers while driving software delivery.

Skills

Software Engineering

Team Leadership

Agile Processes

Communication Skills

Financial Technology

Job description

The Role

The Platform Services team is at the core of accelerating Addepar’s platform scalability, elasticity, and global expansion. The team plays a pivotal role in driving innovation and standards on building distributed services and on demand environments to meet the scale of Addepar’s growth. Working on a blend of cutting-edge technologies and critical legacy systems, the team thrives on solving complex challenges to deliver high-impact solutions internally and externally. If you're passionate about creating scale and excited to shape the future of wealth management technology, this is the team for you!

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to shaping our ambitious program of product features, technical debt reduction, and scalability improvements
• Coach and mentor a team of software engineers
• Deliver solutions for our clients, drive software delivery and improve engineering processes
• Collaborate with partner teams across Addepar to deliver impactful results for both internal and external clients

Who You Are

• Extensive experience of software engineering experience.
• Previous experience of leading software engineering teams, preferably in a platform engineering context
• Experience or interest in financial technology
• A great communicator adept at working with cross-functional partners
• You value developing people and coaching engineers to succeed.
• Experienced with managing software projects throughout the SDLC, improving team agile processes, estimation and project planning