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Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
The Opportunity
As one of our Technology Managers, you won’t just be keeping the lights on; you’ll be driving the next wave of our global growth. You will lead a high-performing, collaborative, and incredibly diverse engineering group spread across London, and Bulgaria, championing a flexible culture of both remote and in-office talent.
Your mission is threefold: People, Delivery, and Partnerships. You will mentor and empower your engineering team to do their best work while ensuring flawless execution and rapid agile delivery. Because of our global footprint, you will also be front-and-center managing high-stakes technical relationships with world-renowned external brands and internal stakeholders, ensuring our integrations are rock-solid.
These are some ingredients to the role:
* Product Definition - contribute to the definition of significant product features, getting involved in workshops with other engineering teams and Product Managers
* Technical Leadership - Collaborate with your Head of Engineering and peers to define and communicate a technical roadmap for the domain
* Career Development - Help define goals and objectives for engineers in the team to lead and guide them throughout their careers and aspirations.
* Prioritisation - Working closely with stakeholders and your Head of Engineering to ensure the domain sets their priorities appropriately, in line with commercial needs and the Engineering Strategy.
* Ownership - Owning streams of work that span the domain, from requirements gathering, to design, and supporting functionality in production
* Continuous improvement - Improve the effectiveness of the domain by proposing and implementing new processes, designs and engineering practices. Sharing these improvements across the wider Engineering org.
* Tracking Progress - Track the progress being made towards the wider goals of the domain, and transparently communicates this with the teams and Head of Engineering
* Operating - Take responsibility for deploying and supporting your changes all the way through to prove that they work well - and continue to work well - in production
* Communicate - transparently communicate your progress and discuss ideas with your teams, other senior Individual Contributors and your Head of Engineering. Share new development practices, patterns, and standards with the teams you work with.
What will you bring to the table?
* Experience leading and developing teams of engineers as its core technology using an Event Driven Architecture
* Delivering high quality software projects, driving forward best practices
* Able to work independently and solve complex problems
* Amazon Web Services (or similar e.g. Azure, Google Cloud)
* Experience in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban)
* Desire to coach engineers and to drive a high performance culture
At JET, this is on the menu:
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.
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