Engineering Manager - Product at loveholidays

Job Description:

About the role:

We’re looking for a tech lead or engineering manager to lead our Search team. This role will be looking after one of the most critical teams in the business, as well as shaping it, directing it and working with the Head of Digital Product and senior stakeholders on the vision and strategy of our search platform. This is a 60/40 managing + hands on role - we believe all tech leads should have some technical exposure to build great relationships with the engineers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Scaling and managing a team of 5 engineers that will eventually become a team of teams (This is a great opportunity for someone who’s looking to potentially move into a Head of role)
• Working with our career skills matrix and our engineering principles to ensure engineers are cared for at all levels
• Outlining the technical direction alongside our principal software engineers for how we want to build out our search platform
• Working with the Digital Product Team leadership to establish the vision of our tech and how we want to grow all our engineering teams
• Working closely with product and design to establish great and powerful working practices and relationships (we work in cross functional teams but there’s always room for improvement)
• You’ll also be getting your hands dirty from time to time and working on some really cool technical problems We’re looking for people who are keen to deepen their management skills and also their tech skills, and expand even further in their engineering careers. Tech stacks are always subject to change, and we hope you can influence the future of Loveholidays.

Our teams work primarily with TypeScript, Preact and Node, but we employ many different languages across our teams and encourage engineers to work across the entire stack - from our Kubernetes infrastructure to our Rust edge platform.

You should apply if:

• You’re excited about building products in cross functional teams to deliver a best-in-class user experience to consumers
• You find scalability and people problems fascinating and want to be a force multiplier in teams
• You have a background in product engineering and have managed teams of engineers before (even if you have just started managing, or really want to start, we’re happy to hear from you!)
• You care deeply about people and their growth and get a kick when you see people move up in their careers
• You want to grow to become an engineering leader, and talk about it to the world (we want to give you the platform to build an incredible career out of)

What we’ll give back to you:

• A competitive salary
• Heavily discounted holidays for you, your family and friends 🏖 (trust us we have - some great hotels)
• High degree of autonomy in a strong collaborative environment
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Discounted gym membership at Virgin Active (right next to our offices!)
• The best equipment for doing the job - MacBooks or X1 Carbons are our choice
• Regular career and development reviews

Company Benefits

• Heavily discounted holidays for you, your family and friends - trust us, we have some great hotels!
• The best equipment for doing the job - MacBooks or X1 Carbons are our choice
• Discounted gym membership at Virgin Active - there's one right next door to our office
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• 5% matched (10%) - we partner with Royal London
• High degree of autonomy in a strong collaborative environment
• Regular career and development reviews

Interview Process

• Phase 1 - 45 minute informal chat with the Head of Product Engineering. There may be some technical question but nothing to intrusive.
• Phase 2 - coding analysis work, this can be done in real time via shared pairing or as a take home case study.
• Phase 3 - a longer discussion split into two halves, both an hour long. The first allows you time to meet with other members of the loveholidays team in an informal chat and the second half will dive a little deeper into your technical capabilities.