Engineering Manager

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team at Admiral Business!

About Admiral Business

We want to make it possible for more small business to survive and thrive - by building personalised products and services that allow our customers to run their business and perform their craft. We currently offer commercial insurance policies that include Tools & Materials, Public Liability, Employers Liability, Goods in Transit, Professional Indemnity and Legal Expenses, with more products on the horizon. The Admiral Business website can be found here - https://admiralbusiness.com

Admiral Business operates within Admiral Pioneer. Admiral Pioneer is a company within Admiral Group that seeds, launches, and scales new businesses that are at the forefront of Admiral Group’s diversification strategy.

Please note: This is a hybrid role, with a requirement to work on site in Cardiff 2 days per week. 

Main Responsibilities

• Develop Frontend Applications using Next.js and React
• Provide technical leadership in building and optimising complex microservices and serverless systems leveraging AWS and GCP cloud services.
• Optimising database performance, and ensuring data integrity across different database types
• Embed Security throughout the SDLC emphasising a security-by-design approach.
• Own and develop code/development standards
• Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
• Facilitate effective Agile ceremonies (retrospectives, sprint planning, stand-ups) to foster collaboration, drive team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality code
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level 
• Participate and Lead on technical design 
• Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals 

Required Skills and Experience

• Previous experience working within a People Management role
• Strong communication skills
• Strong Organisation and Time management skills
• Leading and managing the technical development of cloud-based applications.
• Database selection, implementation, Optimisation and maintenance. 
• Extensive software engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management building holistic web-based software solution, API design, and interactions between servers and clients 
• Considerable experience developing backend services
• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management 

Extensive commercial experience in the following areas:

• Development using JavaScript libraries and frameworks (Next.js and React preferred)
• Development of serverless applications (Node.js preferred)
• Development of REST and/or GraphQL API's

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in the Insurance sector or other highly regulated sectors
• Experience with Sanity.io

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.

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