We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talent team.
Capital.com is a global trading platform offering clients to invest in Gold, Oil, Apple, Tesla and 6,500+ other world-renowned markets. We are enhancing our Backend Team and looking for great Engineers with an interest in trading to join our Team!
Our Engineering Management team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the robustness, speed, and security of our Product and delivery of the new initiatives. Dedicated to enhancing performance, providing a best-in-class user experience, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding data, the team's efforts directly impact our ability to offer clients a seamless and secure trading journey.
We are seeking a skilled Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team(s). As an Engineering Manager you will be leading one of the organisational domains, improving efficiency and productivity of the engineering team(s) and ensuring timely delivery of work within the domain. You will play a crucial role in driving engineering culture, organisation growth, operational excellence, fostering collaboration, and enabling efficient engineering and delivery management. This position requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership abilities, and exceptional organisational skills.
Requirements:
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Product: Experience working in Product-led fast-paced environment as a team leader/manager
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Financial Applications Proficiency: Experience in FinTech, Banking, or similar areas is a must
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Craftsmanship: Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
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Delivery: In depth practical knowledge of the Agile methodologies/frameworks and and iterative development processes
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Architecture and Design: Knowledge of software architecture patterns, system design principles, scalability, and performance optimization
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Analytical Thinking: Data-driven leader utilising metrics to problem-solving and decision-making, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement
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Engineering Efficiency: Deep understanding of end to end software development lifecycle, from planning and coding to production release and maintenance
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Ownership and Accountability: Result oriented individual with strong sense of accountability and ability to learn from project failures
Responsibilities:
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Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and develop engineering team members across multiple disciplines (software development, QA, DevOps), ensuring continuous growth and a high performance team culture. Facilitate 1-2-1’s and provide feedback, goal settings and performance reviews, and support for career progression and performance improvements (where required)
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Delivery: In partnership with Product, assume full responsibility for the success of the team's work, including resources capacity planning, to ensure delivery of the various projects and commitments with multiple dependencies in an ambiguous and high-impact area
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Operational Stability: Ensure full operational stability of the assumed technology domain and maintain and constantly improve production systems quality within agreed KPI’s and SLO’s
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Servant-Leadership: Being accountable for both successes and failures, while fostering a culture of ownership within the team. Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
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Visibility: Work closely with multiple organisations (Architecture, SRE, Product, Compliance, Business, etc.) to develop short and long-term technical strategies. Manage expectations, resolve conflicts, and keep everyone involved aligned
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Engineering Champion: Advocate of technical excellence, working in collaboration with architecture function, implement long term technical vision and guide technical decisions, ensuring best practices in architecture, system design, and technology choices while maintaining high product delivery efficiency
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Process Improvement: In collaboration with SRE function, continuously evaluate and improve development processes, workflows, and practices. Drive innovation, establish new approaches in improving productivity of the team and time to market while maintaining product quality and engineering code standards
What you will get in return
- You will join the company, that cares about work and life balance
- Annual Bonus based on the performance review cycle
- Generous Annual Leave Policy
- Medical Insurance and Pension fund, with additional benefit packages based on the location
- Flexible work options: choose between a hybrid model or fully remote work across your country of employment
- Multi-site Policy with 30 additional days working remotely from anywhere in the world
- Possibility of taking two additional days of paid leave per year to dedicate to volunteering efforts
