Technology Manager

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online delivery platform in London seeks a Technology Manager to enhance Grocery, Pharmacy, and Retail ventures. This role entails leading a team of engineers, fostering career development, and overseeing agile processes to ensure timely project delivery. Ideal candidates should possess strong business acumen, experience in people management, and a solid background in software development. This position offers the flexibility of hybrid working, where you’ll collaborate globally to drive innovation and improve customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a manager leading a technical team.
• Deep understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and develop engineering talent within the team.
• Oversee agile development processes to ensure project deliverables.
• Communicate with stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals.

Skills

Strong business acumen

People management experience

Problem-solving skills

Influencing software decisions

Experience in .NET or mobile app development

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

We are looking for a Technology Manager to develop and evolve our Grocery, Pharmacy, and Retail ventures. Our Grocery and New Verticals teams are key to driving major company revenue, and your high-impact work will directly influence the customer and partner experience for one of the world's top delivery companies as we expand our offering to new markets.

In this role, you will lead your teams to develop and refine scalable, high-quality software solutions that serve a diverse global market. You will collaborate with multiple product and engineering teams around the world to help unlock new opportunities for our partners and enhance our customers’ experience.

As a Technology Manager you will provide leadership, guidance and career development for teams that are made up of typically between 6-9 engineers. You will collaborate closely with your stakeholders ensuring that the team remains focussed in the right areas and in accordance with our wider architectural principals and practices.

Please note that this position is located in London & is 3 days a week in the office, the rest of the time is up to you!

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Career development: mentoring your team, conducting performance reviews, guiding career development & maintaining a high standard of engineering output from the team.
• Hiring: recruiting, onboarding and retaining our engineering talent
• Motivation: fostering a positive, inclusive working environment & team culture.
• Project Delivery: overseeing our agile development processes to ensure efficient workflow, and project deliverables are met on time.
• Communication: provide clear communication to our stakeholders, business leaders and neighbouring teams to ensure that we’re aligning our engineering efforts with our business goals.
• Technical roadmap: owning our roadmap, in collaboration with the product manager to ensure we’re prioritising the correct work/projects inline with our business objectives.
• Innovation mindset: Adapting and using the latest technology and approaches and coaching others to do the same.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong business acumen with the ability to align engineering efforts with company goals, ensuring our technical decisions are driving our businesses success.
• Prior experience as a people manager.
• A deep understanding of software development, the SDLC & a proven track record of delivering high quality software solutions.
• Having an opinion and not being afraid to challenge our senior leadership with the overall objective of delivering value.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Experience of guiding software engineering decisions via influence, rather than by authority.
• Previous experience as a hands on backend, or full stack software engineer (ideally in backend technologies/frameworks, such as .NET) or as a mobile app software engineer.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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