Overview
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Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer? Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before? Are you looking for a values-led company, which cares about the growth of its employees?
The impact you will have:Our engineering platform sits at the heart of the business and forms the backbone of every product our customers rely on. By joining our team, you will profoundly impact both the technical and personal growth aspects of our engineering teams. Here's how:
- Shaping Team Culture You will play a pivotal role in building processes and a working envinromonment that enable every engineers to perform their best at collaborating and co-creating quality solutions that have real customer impact.
- Guiding Growth Journeys: You will support engineers in their professional development, helping them achieve their career goals. Through regular 1-1s and performance reviews, you'll offer personalised feedback and assist them in crafting and pursuing individual development plans.
- Empowering Engineers: You will manage engineers across cross-functional teams, giving them the support and guidance they need to grow. You will also offer them the autonomy to make decisions, encouraging ownership of their functional areas.
- Fostering Innovation: Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic, especially in our engineering teams. We strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customers' problems. By fostering a culture of lean thinking, you'll help launch ideas early and often, allowing for rapid iteration and improvement.
You will join a team of experienced and passionate engineers who are unafraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head-on. Your ability to mentor, coach, and develop your team members will be key in helping them reach their full potential and drive the success of Elliptic's engineering efforts.
What you will do:
- Conduct 1-1s and performance reviews with engineers to provide personalised feedback and support
- Understand each team member's goals and help them establish and follow career development plans
- Stay across all aspects of your teams, fostering a healthy culture to ensure that expectations are set and work is delivered
- Promote knowledge-sharing forums across engineering to ensure best practices
- Stay up to date and maintain a good understanding of each team's work so that you can effectively support and represent them throughout the business
- Oversee the hiring process, from identifying talent needs to interviewing candidates and making hiring decisions
- Develop and implement onboarding plans to ensure new team members are effectively integrated and set up for success
- Cultivate a psychologically safe environment where all team members feel valued, supported, and able to contribute fully
You will be a great fit here if you:
- Build strong teams founded on trust and empowerment
- Celebrate success and failure, sharing learnings widely
- Care deeply about your team members' growth and find reward in their development
- Build lasting personal relationships based on trust, vulnerability, and openness
- Use data to make decisions and identify what is slowing your teams down and what they need to succeed
- Are not afraid to fail, experiment often and learn quickly
Our ideal candidate:
- Has proven experience as a line manager with a passion for mentoring and fostering team growth
- Is adept at coaching team members, providing guidance, encouragement, and constructive feedback
- Is familiar with current engineering management best practices and capable of refining these practices through debate and experience
- Excels at collaborating with senior stakeholders to represent engineering teams effectively
- Is an expert in building strong, empowered teams founded on trust, transparency, and open communication
- Has experience attracting top engineering talent and building efficient, objective hiring pipelines
Bonus Points for:
- Experience working with resilient high throughput APIs
- Experience working closely with DevOps engineers
- Has worked for a company which has gone through a scaling phase
- HODLs some crypto
Job Benefits
How we work:
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
Vacation/ Leave:
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 Crypto for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
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