Lead Engineer (Engineering Manager)

Job title:

Lead Engineer (Engineering Manager)

Company

Lottie

Job description

🚀 Mission: Our mission is to elevate later life and build the later living sector of the future👫 Team: Engineering – reporting to the CTO🏷️ Title: Lead Software Engineer – Manager🎁 Benefits: 26 days holiday and a range of other benefits. See📈 Equity: We have a generous EMI share scheme that all team members will participate in💻 Office Policy: Hybrid (Minimum 2 core day per week in the office)🌍 Location: London, UK🔢 Interview Process: * Talent Screen

• Hiring Manager Interview / CTO – 45 minute chat to get to know you better and get to know Lottie better
• Technical Assessment Interview – Option of pairing exercise of take home test (whatever you’re most comfortable with)
• Cultural process interview – Meet some of the team, including product / design to see how you work and think about problems
• Final interview with Will, our founder

🤩 Candidate Experience: The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possibleA quick intro to LottieLottie is a HealthTech start-up, founded by brother duo, Chris and Will Donnelly. Our mission is to elevate later life for everybody and build the later living sector of the future. To date, Lottie has raised over £25m+, from leading Venture Capital Funds including Accel, General Catalyst and Kindred, as well as global tech executives including Tom Blomfield (Founder of Monzo Bank). and Dave Wascha (CPTO of Zoopla).Lottie launched in August 2021 and today offers three core products and services, including:
Marketplace (B2B2C) – A free service that helps families and retirees find the UK’s best care homes and retirement living properties. (B2B) – CRM software mapped to the care and retirement living industries unique customer journey. (B2B) – Employee benefits platform, helping corporates deliver outstanding eldercare support to their employees.Since launching, Lottie has now supported hundreds of thousands of families navigate the stressful later living system, while helping thousands begin their next chapter in later life.The opportunityWe are looking for a Lead Software Engineer (Engineering manager) to lead and build out Lottie’s new Care Operating System vision. This new product is a critical evolution of how Lottie serves its partner providers and will support them in digitising their day-to-day operations, but will also be how we bridge the gap between care seekers and providers in the future and ultimately deliver a 10x customer experience.You’ll have the opportunity to architect and figure out how we build this new world alongside our Principal Software Engineers and help build out the team (we’ll be bringing in new people as well as moving people around in the business). Alongside the Head of Product and CTO you’ll be taking responsibility for product and technical decisions and ensure we are thinking about the future.Our stack is relatively modern but in this job we haven’t made any core technical decisions and so would love you to come in and help on that journey.What you’ll be doing

• Manage a team of 2-4 awesome engineers and help them grow and deliver value at Lottie
• Drive the product decisions alongside the product manager about what we’re building and how
• Architect the future of the Care platform and help build a better search for everyone
• Make key architectural decisions alongside leadership as to how we evolve our products
• Work with the rest of leadership to create a great, inclusive and productive environment
• Own the development of new features from conception to completion
• Mentor other engineers in best practices and level up the engineering function

What problems you might be solving

• Figuring out how to integrate models in understanding the quality of enquiries
• Deeply integrating our customer experience with the supplier experience
• Leveraging the latest technologies to solve the right problems (think things like Qwik, Sanity, tRPC etc)
• Building robust and clean data pipelines that give suppliers a depth of information and understanding about potential enquiries and customers

Why this might be exciting

• High degree of autonomy and ability to influence key decisions and drive the right changes in technology in a growing company
• An opportunity to grow a team of engineers over time and expand out the team (we expect there to be more than 1 team in that area over time)
• Working across different elements of our infrastructure and measuring the impact of your teams changes on the marketplace through experimentation
• Regular hack days and a flexible L+D budget to help make you a better engineer

Who we’re looking for

• Depth in experience around B2B and B2C product development and delivery in cross functional teams – building an amazing experience that’s fast, accessible and scalable really excites you
• Is interested in pushing the boundaries of how we build a high-performing website – edge compute, Qwik, Sanity are all bits of software we really love
• Wants to manage and grow people – understands the most important thing is a high functioning and happy team
• Has worked in complex software systems – both front-end and back-end and understand the importance of good data structures, a scalable architecture and constantly evolving tech stack

We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

Expected salary

£100000 – 135000 per year

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:58:37 GMT

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