Engineering Manager
Cardiff
- Full time
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"We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team at Admiral Business!
About Admiral Business
Admiral Business sit within the Admiral Group, and are the experts in business insurance, offering SME insurance for tradespeople, professionals, and couriers. They build products and services that put their customers’ first, combining agility with reliability to deliver innovative products and superior customer experience to the underserved SME market across the UK.
Please note: This is a hybrid role, with a requirement to work on site in Cardiff 2 days per week.
Main Responsibilities
- Develop Frontend Applications using Next.js and React
- Provide technical leadership in building and optimising complex microservices and serverless systems leveraging AWS and GCP cloud services.
- Optimising database performance, and ensuring data integrity across different database types
- Embed Security throughout the SDLC emphasising a security-by-design approach.
- Own and develop code/development standards
- Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
- Facilitate effective Agile ceremonies (retrospectives, sprint planning, stand-ups) to foster collaboration, drive team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality code
- Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level
- Participate and Lead on technical design
- Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
Required Skills and Experience
- Previous experience working within a People Management role
- Strong communication skills
- Strong Organisation and Time management skills
- Leading and managing the technical development of cloud-based applications.
- Database selection, implementation, Optimisation and maintenance.
- Extensive software engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management building holistic web-based software solution, API design, and interactions between servers and clients
- Considerable experience developing backend services
- Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management
Extensive commercial experience in the following areas:
- Development using JavaScript libraries and frameworks (Next.js and React preferred)
- Development of serverless applications (Node.js preferred)
- Development of REST and/or GraphQL API's
Desirable Experience
- Experience working in the Insurance sector or other highly regulated sectors
- Experience with Sanity.io
Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance
At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.
All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here.
Admiral, Where You Can Be You
At Admiral you’re accepted, supported and empowered to be you. Because you’re brilliant.
We’re proud of our people-centric culture which has led us to being recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re committed to ensuring that at Admiral, progression is not slowed or haltered by barriers related to protected characteristics.
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What areas do you look after?
I currently look after our Admiral Pioneer & Money departments.
Tell us about you and your Admiral story?
I joined Admiral after a couple of years of working for tech recruitment agencies; bringing with me experience of recruiting for a wide range of roles of varying levels of seniority.
Why would you recommend Admiral?
When you join Admiral, the first thing you notice is that there are so many opportunities to grow with the business. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being valued, rewarded well, and supported to expand your skillsets and grow as a person! Oh, and the people are lovely.
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