Engineering Manager

CarTrawler is the leading B2B technology provider of the car rental and mobility solutions to the global travel industry. Our purpose is to drive successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivaled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer, and ride-hailing services.<br/>CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, EasyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, <a href="http://hotels.com/">Hotels.com</a>, and Emirates. As a B2B company, we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.<br/>Reporting to: Senior Engineering Manager <h3>Main accountabilities and key tasks:</h3> <ul> <li>Working with Portfolio Management, Product Management and the Business to agree achievable commitments and priorities for technology requirements. </li><li>Supporting engineers in defining technical requirements. Ensuring they have a clear understanding of the technical ask and timeline. </li><li>Actively contributing to the codebase. Across design, development and test. Leading by example.</li><li>Supporting the technical design and implementation. Ensuring best practices, recognised design patterns and strategies are embraced. Striving always for simplicity of solution design.</li><li>Adopting a defensible, pragmatic stance on testing. From unit through integration and system. Following through on this with the team.</li><li>Providing input into evolving Agile Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Integration, Automation.</li><li>Run team meetings, tracking the team's efficiency and quality of work, remove roadblocks and eliminate interruptions.</li><li>Providing realistic estimates and report against expected progress.</li><li>Assessing, resolving, and reporting on issues escalated from the production environment.</li><li>Providing people leadership. Scheduling regular one-to-one conversations with team members. Leading performance conversations. Participating in career planning and training plans. Setting achievable goals and reviewing progress.</li><li>Help us grow by hiring the best engineers for the engineering team.</li></ul> <h3>Critical Interfaces</h3> <ul> <li>Engineering Management to ensure we are providing the correct leadership and support to the engineering teams.</li><li>Product Management and Product Design to ensure alignment on meeting product visions and goals.</li><li>Portfolio Management to implement clear plans for delivery of priority projects and initiatives.</li><li>Trading function, Partner Relationship Management, Supply &amp; insurance and CCE to ensure quality technical solutions are being delivered.</li><li>External partners to assist integration of CarTrawler software solutions.</li></ul> <h3>Knowledge and Experience:</h3> <ul> <li>5+years experience in similar role</li><li>You should thrive in a highly agile environment where you can lead the team through estimation, planning, development and deployment, all while coordinating across the development teams and the business.</li><li>Be an engineer at heart with the ability to write and review code, have passion and pride in the applications that you deliver.</li><li>Ideally, you have previously managed an engineering team, have excellent people and communication skills, are approachable and love the satisfaction that comes from helping others get the best from themselves.</li><li>Ability to manage and lead a team in both technology and process to pro-actively and strategically deliver results.</li><li>Ability to attract and hire great engineers, build a high-performing team, lead and mentor them, and make them successful.</li><li>Strong understanding of agile methodology, software development best practices and CI/CD principles.</li><li>Excellent time-management skills to ensure that projects are delivered on time with quality</li></ul>Environmental, Social, and Governance You will be an ambassador of our culture and social and environmental credentials.<br/><br/>CarTrawler is fully committed to ensuring equal opportunities supported by an environment based on mutual respect, inclusion, and dignity at work for all our people.  We welcome diversity, valuing the benefits it brings to the workplace.  We have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination of any kind. <br/>The criteria with regards to decisions on positions and promotions is an individual’s ability, behaviors, and merit to perform in the role. To this end, CarTrawler strives to ensure that recruitment, employment, training, and promotion practices and policies do not directly or indirectly discriminate.<br/>We are a purpose-led, values-driven company, with a focus on a culture of shared wins where relationships make the difference. We strive to foster a cultu