Engineering Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: VP, Engineering - Engineering

Description

Job overview

At Preqin data is at the heart of everything we do, we operate a world class data research team and provide alternative asset data highly prized by thousands of customers worldwide. Preqin engineering is evolving into a fast-paced and autonomous culture, our Software Engineering team has the opportunity to significantly accelerate these changes and help shape our organisation for the future.

We believe that the ability to excel at managing engineers comes from a deep interest in people and teams; the ability to focus on the right measures at the right time; and an engaging approach to communication that inspires individual and team growth. All underpinned by past experience performing at a high level as a software engineer

What You’ll Be Doing

• Be responsible for the individual growth of multiple Software Engineers across all levels from Junior to Lead by actively finding and assigning opportunities for your team members in collaboration with Senior leadership.
• Build high performing teams able to work with independence and speed while retaining quality.
• Promote team autonomy but know when to course correct or simplify when appropriate in order to meet business objectives.
• Work with colleagues across Product, Design and Engineering enabling teams to be cross functional and highly collaborative.
• Give clarity in direction when leading, communicating, and understanding business objectives.
• Engage with and facilitate technical discussions, able to understand trade-offs and recognise common pitfalls.
• Communicate technical complexity to stakeholders and business leaders. Adjusting approach as necessary to the audience's familiarity with technology concerns.
• Set and monitor engineering practices within a framework of continual improvement.
• Actively participate in daily activities when necessary (comfortable reviewing code, pair programming, designing systems, etc.)
  
  

What You’ll Bring To Us

• You’ve occupied positions of responsibility and influence. You can demonstrate the experience of setting and owning direction for others to follow.
• You have a strong focus on Communication. Your own ability to communicate effectively is a point of pride. Enabling others to express their ideas and actively listen to ensure voices are heard is something you do daily.
• You take a Systems Thinking approach to solving both technical and organisational problems. You have the ability surface areas of improvement when viewing individual components and their relations to how the system functions as a whole.
• You know what “high performance” looks and feels like. You’re able to guide teams and individuals to their full potential.
• You enable collaboration and can demonstrate your ability to build focused and free flowing intra-team communication and your ability to facilitate inter-team coordination.
• You have strong technical background with experience designing, building, and deploying software. C# and .NET core, python, REACT.JS and Postgres are our main technologies, with AWS as our cloud provider.
  
  

Why join us?

About Us

You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.

Our Culture

We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.

Equal opportunities

Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.