Senior Engineering Manager

Place of Work:  

Remote. Occasional travel within the UK 

About the job 

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 GovTech 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, we're 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. 

About the role: 

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 a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team. 

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Civica, you will manage engineering managers and engineers, owning the people management and delivery efforts of multiple engineering teams. You’ll make data driven decisions, instilling a culture of measurement and constant learning and improvement. You’ll strive to make Civica a great place to work, learn and grow for software engineers. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Hire, build and manage multiple teams of successful & happy software engineers 

• Enabling your teams for success, ensuring delivery of high-quality products to our customers 

• Set and communicate clear priorities and a strategy that contribute to Civica’s goals 

• Help to set the long-term technical vision for your teams, and contribute to the wider Civica Engineering vision 

• Embody good engineering culture, and drive great behaviours in your teams 

• Develop and align processes and decision-making across teams 

• Aligning engineering efforts with product colleagues & other senior stakeholders
    

Requirements: 

• Experience in recruiting, coaching and mentoring software engineers and managers 

• A technical background, able to engage with software engineers on a technical level and contribute to technical decision making 

• Strong 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 teams 

Nice to Haves: 

• Awareness of Developer Experience principles and practices 

• Experience modernising legacy software 

• Worked in an environment where engineers own production services 

Some technologies that we use: 

• .NET (C#) 

• Go (Golang) 

• Playwright 

• Azure & AWS Platforms 

• GitHub 

• Kubernetes 

• Docker 

• Terraform 

• Datadog 

• SQL Server