Engineering Manager

Overview

We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.

Our aspiration is to be a Gov Tech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, weu
2019re at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.

As a company, we’re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.

Civica builds products and technologies that empower the public sector to serve citizens around the world. Our solutions are widely used across Government, Housing, Transport, Education, and Healthcare sectors in the UK and abroad. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team.

• Hire, build and manage a team of successful & happy software engineers
• Enabling your team for success, ensuring delivery of high-quality products to our customers
• Embody good engineering culture, and drive great behaviours in your team
• Design, develop, deploy and maintain software products
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to identify requirements and develop technical solutions
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and improving the overall quality of our engineering output
• Troubleshoot complex issues using log analysis, profiling tools, and collaborative debugging techniques
• Contribute to documentation and decisions on team processes and tools
• Implement continuous integration & continuous deployment pipelines for automated testing, build, and deployment processes

• Experience in recruiting, coaching and mentoring software engineers
• Deep knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile development, continuous delivery, automated testing, security, and observability
• Expertise implementing engineering metrics to drive quality and performance
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and able to create clarity for your team
• Proficient in writing high-quality, readable, secure, and maintainable code
• Strong understanding of computer science concepts, data structures, and algorithms
• Strong knowledge of testing principles and practices; experience writing and automating tests
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Building and shipping products using NodeJS and React
• Understands separation of concerns with services
• Knowledge of observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) and monitoring tools
• Understanding of security best practices and secure coding principles
• Awareness of Developer Experience principles and practices
• Experience modernising legacy software
• Worked in an environment where engineers own production services
• Worked with Go Lang

There is no such thing as the perfect candidate, so if you think you have what it takes but donu
2019t necessarily meet every single point on the list above, please still get in touch. Weu
2019d love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

As a company, weu
2019re passionate about what we do and the citizens we serve. If you, too, want to champion the use of technology in public services to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organizations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve career growth, and make a real difference to people and communities.

We know that when our people are happy, they work better and have greater job satisfaction. Hereu
2019s what you can expect:

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