Engineering Director

Photobox Group ,
London, Greater London
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Job Title - Engineering Director Brand - Photobox Group Location - Farringdon, London Reporting to - VP of Engineering What Youll Be Doing We are looking for a passionate Engineering Director to lead our UK teams that are based in Farringdon and form a key part of our cross channel leadership team. Reporting to our VP of Engineering you will be responsible for six product and engineering teams with over 30 engineers. You will need to inspire, coach and support our engineering teams to be the best that they can be. Our UK teams are cross-functional and accountable for capabilities such as our Native Apps, Editor, Shopping Experience, Acquisition, Ecommerce APIs and CRM. They are constantly striving for quality software solutions that have maximum impact within our culture of quality and personal accountability. An understanding of large-scale e-commerce platforms, building for both app and web based customer journeys, experience building scalable web services and an appreciation of the challenges engineers face would be beneficial. Coaching members of your team, peers and upwards across all of our groups brands (Photobox, Hofmann and PosterXXL). You will be passionate about quality, predictability, delivery, and scalability to help teams fulfil their mission achieve their goals.. Our customer base is changing the way that they interact with us and we need to transform our approach in order to capture this demand. This role will play a key part in helping us with this transformation away from a predominately web based organization. Leveraging our existing platform to solve customer problems with native apps. You will play a key role in creating and refining the principles and processes that we take to enable engineering at scale across multiple locations. This role is both operational and strategic helping engineers and teams find the right balance between consistency and autonomy. You will have an engineering background and have a good understanding of architectural practices. You will be an advocate of Agile engineering practices and help us support a culture of continuous improvement. You will also have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled leaders as well as their engineers motivated and engaged. Mentoring and developing team members careers and supporting individuals and teams to reach their full potential. You will support your teams to refine their processes and take the lead in driving engineering initiatives to improve productivity. We believe in TDD and continuous delivery and this should be a passion of yours. You will be delivering sustainable growth as well as manage a large existing legacy code base. The role is 10% technical and 90% psychological. You will be managing C-level stakeholders and permanently pursuing the best balance between delivering functionality and non-functional aspects for the platforms. Benefits On top of a competitive salary we offer great benefits too * Yearly bonus * Flexible working and work from home * Support for parents through our maternity and paternity policies and flexible working environment * Working in our spacious offices in the heart of Farringdon * Access to our learning platform * Funded wellbeing - including discounted gyms, yoga and bootcamps in the office * Healthcare, dental and life assurance * Workplace pension scheme * Season ticket loans * Cycle to work scheme * Choice of MacBook/PC * Mental health and wellbeing support available 24/7 * Coffee machine and fresh fruit in the office * Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the team * Games in the office, including table tennis and table football * Weekly football games * Credit to spend each year on Photobox * 33 days of holiday a year (including public holidays) increasing each year up to 38

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