Engineering Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

12/4/2024

🌏 London (hybrid)

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme 

⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week, 1 hour for lunch) 

💖 Our Values

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years' service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love. 
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via health shield for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.  
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
  
  

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to be the UK's simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 8 years, we've supported 10,000's of customers on their car buying journey and know 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year!

🔧Engineering at Oodle

Oodle has 3 engineering teams:

• Customer Experience owns the mobile apps that our customers use to manage their loans, as well as the web experience for onboarding and loan processing.
• Oobook is Oodle's most critical system: an in-house Java + microservices platform that manages the end-to-end loan lifecycle; including payments/direct-debits.
• Customer Management delivers a Salesforce-based platform that supports the highly complex workflows required by the operations and contact centre teams (e.g. when a customer initially goes in to arrears, or wants to hand their car back).
  
  

These are supported by a Platform Engineering team, a data team and an information security team.

🙌 The Role

The Engineering Manager for Oobook and Loan Processing reports to the VP of Engineering. They will lead & manage an experienced team of onshore software engineers to deliver a stream of awesome software releases that deliver real business value.

What you'll be getting up to:

• Collaborate with product management to plan a realistic roadmap that delivers a stream of high-value product enhancements. Initiatives may cut-across multiple teams so will require extensive collaboration with the other engineering teams.
• Lead, mentor, and develop your engineering teams; fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture that understands the business and focuses on delivering business outcomes.
• As line manager, support the professional growth of your team members. conduct regular performance evaluations, bring team members together physically on a highly regular basis, and provide constructive feedback.
• Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment. Manage the delicate balance between the need to deliver business value with the need to continuously improve the architecture and reduce tech debt.
• Alongside the product managers, take accountability for the agile ceremonies, and play a key role in the overall product governance processes.
• Ensure the team adheres to best practices in software development; including continuous improvement of engineering processes and tools to improve code quality and shift-left on testing, security, monitoring and deployment. N.B. Oodle engineering teams are not currently on-call, but ensuring teams have end-to-end accountability for reliability is a high-priority, so this is likely to change.
• Provide guidance on complex technical issues and assist with problem-solving.
• Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes and tools, in collaboration with engineering leadership, to enhance productivity and quality.
  
  

The role will be a great fit if you have:

• A desire to combine your outstanding technical skills with management expertise to create an awesome engineering team that is incredibly proud of the products that they deliver.
• Experience leading and line-managing a team of 5-10 software developers, ensuring their professional development and productivity. Experience in managing cross-functional teams is a plus.
• At least 5 years as a hands-on software engineer; ideally with Java and/or Python.
• Experience with Salesforce is not mandatory but would certainly be helpful.
• Demonstrable experience with cloud technologies (ideally AWS); particularly an understanding of how to manage cost and complexity in a cloud environment.
• BSc or MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equal industry experience.
  
  

💚 Our Values

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler's mind when making business decisions.

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger
• Strive for awesome – it's awesome when we do better every day
• Everyone's a builder – we're in this together and we win as a team
• Bravely honest – we're honest with ourselves and everyone else
• Think customer – they're at the heart of everything we do
  
  

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram. 

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our 'Oodlers' who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.

We'd love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email careers@oodlefinance.com