Engineering Manager — Scale a High-Impact Maritime Software Team

Ocean Infinity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Engineering Manager to own the people, organisational capability and engineering capacity of a group of engineers within our Core Engineering team (C#/.NET or Node/TypeScript). This is a senior people-leadership role: you’ll ensure the engineers in your group are well managed, performing, and developed against the organisation’s priorities.

You’ll work with team leads to maintain strong technical leadership and staff growth as the engineering group scales, building a

Qualifications

• Several years’ experience managing and developing software engineers, ideally within a scaling engineering organisation.
• Track record of hiring, retaining and developing engineering talent, including into more senior or lead roles.
• Comfortable balancing competing demands for engineering capacity across multiple concurrent projects or squads.
• Strong 1:1, coaching and feedback skills, with the judgement to handle performance issues fairly and directly.
• Enough technical credibility in engineering to earn the trust of the engineers you manage – you don’t need to own the technology, but you need to know how it works.
• Comfortable with capacity/resource planning and making trade-off calls under constraint.
• Genuine care for people’s development, combined with the willingness to have hard conversations about performance.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage a group of engineers: run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and own their career development.
• Own performance management, recognition and reward for your engineers.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and retention across your group.
• Own capacity and resource planning – decide where engineering resource is deployed and flag constraints early.
• Work with engineers to allocate them to projects, and manage workload to ensure projects can be delivered on time and with a high level of quality.
• Work with the product team and other team leads to resolve resource constraints and balance competing demands for capacity.
• Build the succession and technical leadership pipeline within your group, and identify capability gaps before they affect the team.
• Protect team health, engagement and working environment, and escal...

Job description

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Engineering Manager to own the people, organisational capability and engineering capacity of a group of engineers within our Core Engineering team (C#/.NET or Node/TypeScript). This is a senior people-leadership role: you’ll ensure the engineers in your group are well managed, performing, and developed against the organisation’s priorities.

You’ll work with team leads to maintain strong technical leadership and staff growth as the engineering group scales, building a