Job Description:

Who are we

xDesign partners with the UK’s most ambitious brands to accelerate their digital product and engineering delivery, with offices in the centres of Edinburgh and Leeds and employees based all over the UK. We pride ourselves on working closely and collaboratively with our clients to craft intuitive user experiences and valuable products across a wide range of industries, technologies, and clients.

Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 250 people in the last couple of years. We have doubled the business over the last six months and we are preparing for further accelerated growth in 2022 by delivering high quality software products for some of the UK’s most established brands.

One of the things that makes xDesign unique is our amazing people and the great culture that we have built. That winning combination earned xDesign a place on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ 2022 by Great Place to Work UK. Alongside this we earned a place on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing 2022 and the UK’s Best Workplaces™ in Tech 2021.

Our Team

We care about hiring great people so you’ll be working with a team that cares. We support each other with problems, push each other to get better and celebrate success together.

Engineers, QA, product owners and designers all collaborate as equals on our delivery teams to build the best products possible. Every day’s progress is a communal effort and you’ll be a valued member of the team.

Our Tech

We develop across a broad range of technical stacks, including: Java, .NET, React, Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android) and React Native. We are automation first and cloud native, with AWS and Azure as our primary platforms. Code is always peer-reviewed and a range of technical communities and leadership teams share ideas/approaches and proactively manage the future direction of our technical capabilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Coaching and supporting the growth of around 6-8 engineers through regular 1-2-1s and ongoing personal development plans
  • Driving the success of a software engineering delivery team. Although you will not be responsible for directly developing features you will have technical oversight of projects and will help developers define technical solutions, push forward technical discussions and ensure everything is on track
  • Liaising with clients to discuss their technical vision and supporting our teams in providing the best possible solution
  • Working with engineers to facilitate, drive and support technical initiatives across the business
  • Being an active part of your department's engineering managers team to collectively tackle challenges encountered, plan people resourcing and improve our best practices Facilitating engineering interviews alongside our pool of engineer interviewers engineers

Requirements:

  • Proven success in managing the technical performance and personal development of engineers using coaching techniques to support their growth
  • Experience and enthusiasm to lead, support and develop technical teams towards success in their projects and individual careers
  • A strong set of principles focused on your team and their personal performance, achievements and progression
  • Content in a technically hands-off role, you'll bring the technical authority to guide and mentor technical teams
  • A solid engineering background in one or more of: backend, frontend or mobile Experience overseeing the technical success of projects including working with other non-engineering colleagues (such as product owners and designers)
  • Experience facilitating and guiding technical initiatives with cross-functional technical teams

Our Benefits

  • Variety - the chance to work with a wide range of clients from start-ups to big name brands

  • Personal development and progression plans including 6 learning and development days

  • Turbo charge your personal and professional skills with O’Reilly Learning

  • 34 days holiday a year (inc. Bank Holidays, which you’re free to take whenever you want)

  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave policies

  • Private medical Insurance (and wellbeing incentives, deals and discounts) with Vitality

  • Access to a financial wellbeing platform (via Bippit)

  • A Macbook Pro and other top tech to help you Regular social events (in person and remotely)

  • Love Electric (save up to 50% on any EV) Cycle to work scheme

  • A competitive salary which we’ll discuss with you at the start of the hiring process YuLife employee benefits and lots more!

  • This position is available for UK based remote working as well as office or hybrid working for those based around Edinburgh or Leeds.

  • Think this is for you? Get in touch for a confidential chat about how you can become part of the team.

  • Learn more about life at xDesign on our careers site and for more insights into our hiring process check out our careers FAQs.

  • We believe that representative teams made up of people with different backgrounds, skills and points of view help us build the best workplace possible and enable us to create genuinely innovative, broadly useful products.

  • We are committed to our goal of creating the most inclusive workplace possible. As we strive to build an environment where everyone can thrive and be themselves we will continue to investigate and challenge biases, while working to identify and remove obstacles to inclusion. If you need additional support or accommodation during the application process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

Company Benefits

  • Personal development and progression plans including 6 learning and development days and personal training budget
  • Turbo charge your personal and professional skills with O’Reilly Learning
  • 34 days holiday a year (inc bank holidays, which you’re free to take whenever you want)
  • Enhanced maternity
  • Paternity and adoption leave policies
  • Private medical insurance (and wellbeing incentives, deals and discounts) with Vitality
  • Access to a financial wellbeing platform (via Bippit)
  • A Macbook Pro and other top tech to help you
  • Regular social events (in person and remotely)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • A competitive salary which we’ll discuss with you at the start of the hiring process
  • YuLife employee benefits and lots more!

Interview Process

  • Recruiter call
  • People & behavioural interview
  • Tech Systems Design interview
  • Offer

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