Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager
Location: Cambridge, UK or remote with regular travel to Cambridge
Salary: £64,000 – £72,000 p.a. full-time equivalent, dependent on experience
Basis: Permanent; full-time, part-time or flexible
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK

The role

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Our products achieve this mission by providing high-quality learning experiences, online and for free, that engage and inspire young people to explore computing and digital making outside of school.

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead and manage a technical delivery team responsible for key services and products. These include Raspberry Pi Accounts, raspberrypi.org, and our design system. You’ll be part of an agile team working closely with a Product Manager, Product Designers, and Software Engineers based remotely around the UK. You will use your skills to build accessible and performant digital products.

Your work will positively impact educators and hundreds of thousands of young learners.

We strive to make the Foundation a place where talented people who care about our mission can do the best work of their careers. We have a flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of our work. If you’re the right person for the job, we’ll make it work for you, and you can be confident that you’ll be working with an exceptional team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers developing products and services 
• Take ownership of your team’s agile way of working and collaborate with the rest of the organisation to establish and use a shared language about our Agile process 
• Use organisational and technical solutions to measure and enhance the quality of the software your team provides to user
• Work with our impact team to define and measure the positive impact of your team’s projects
• Partner with a Product Manager to define clear requirements and translate them into actionable tickets for your team
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to refine processes, enhance code quality, and improve documentation across all our projects
• Build consensus within your team and with stakeholders on clear objectives
• Take ownership for delivering projects and products from inception to completion
• Prioritise and manage your team’s workload
• Coach and mentor Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers within your team
• Manage the performance and development of your team members
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve release processes, resilience, and stability

Experience and personal attributes

We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth, and we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here. We also welcome applicants from non-traditional backgrounds, such as those returning to work, leaving military service, or having recently changed careers.

You will have strong leadership and management skills, with proven experience leading technical delivery teams in an agile environment, working with stakeholders, and coordinating with other teams. You have experience leading, managing, and motivating Software Engineers in your team. You are user focused, always asking “how does this benefit our users?” and are able to communicate and prioritise based on end user value.

You also have the interpersonal skills to manage complex and sometimes difficult interactions with grace.

You will have some or all of:

• Experience being a line manager, including performance management
• Experience setting up and managing developer tooling, 
• Experience sharing best practices to improve processes and quality.
• Experience leading and managing technical teams in an agile environment
• Experience working as a senior individual contributor in a technical team
• Experience designing, building, and delivering web services
• Experience mentoring and coaching software engineers and providing them with opportunities to grow and develop
• The ability to give and receive constructive feedback while assuming good intent
• Experience in a high-level language such as Ruby, JavaScript, or Python, and of an RDBMS (such as PostgreSQL)
• The ability to break down complex problems into achievable goals and to ensure the team has a situational awareness of each other’s work

About us

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. You can read more about us on our careers page.

Established in 2008 and first known for our product — the wildly successful Raspberry Pi computer — the Foundation has developed education programmes, learning experiences, and products that are helping millions of young people learn vital new knowledge and skills

Through Code Club, we support the world’s largest network of free informal computing clubs for young people. Tens of thousands of educators have taken our online courses, and millions of people use our free online learning resources. To deepen our understanding of how young people learn about computing and how to create with digital technologies, we conduct academic research, and we use that knowledge to increase the impact of our work and advance the field of computing education.

Across all of our work, we work hard to engage young people who come from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of computing or who experience educational disadvantage. We work all over the world, with teams based in the UK, Ireland, North America, and India, and partnerships with mission-aligned organisations in over 40 countries.

We are at the forefront of the global movement to help young people learn about computing and digital making. You can read more about our mission, values, and goals in our Annual Review 2023 and our Strategy 2022–2025.

Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a range of benefits for all of our colleagues, including:

• 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
• Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
• Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
• Investment in professional development and learning
• Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
• Generous family leave policy
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan

Timetable for applications
Closing date: Friday 25 October 2024 at 9:00 GMT
Phone screen: From application to Friday 25 October 2024
First-round interview: Monday 28 November 2024
Second-round interview: Monday 4 November 2024

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. If successful in the selection process, you will be required to undergo a background check to confirm that you are a suitable person to work with children. Further background checks will be made at regular intervals thereafter.