Role Purpose

The Engineering Manager leads a cross-functional team to deliver robust, scalable software aligned with CarTrawler’s business strategy. They foster a culture of performance, accountability, and growth while ensuring delivery quality and team effectiveness.

They work closely with the Product Manager and Lead Designer to lead the squad as a cohesive trio, ensuring alignment across product, design, and engineering.

Additionally, they collaborate with Senior Engineering Managers and fellow Engineering Managers to maintain technical consistency, share best practices, and support cross-squad coordination.

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Main accountabilities and key tasks:

Champions agile delivery by driving planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, ensuring clear prioritisation and steady progress.
Drives estimation, effort sizing, and decomposition of epics into actionable stories, while maintaining visibility through roadmaps, tracking, and reporting.
Removes delivery blockers & capacity issues, manages dependencies across squads, and escalates risks proactively to safeguard delivery.
Owns delivery of high-quality, scalable, and well-documented software, ensuring milestones are met and launches are smooth from QA/UAT to post-go-live hypercare.
Responds rapidly to production issues, minimising business impact and maintaining customer trust.
Builds and develops high-performing teams through regular 1:1s, clear goals, coaching, feedback, and career growth, while leading hiring and team design.
Aligns engineering goals with cross-functional priorities, representing the team in programme-level forums and contributing to wider organisational strategy.
Contributes to the evolution of Agile practices, CI/CD, and architectural strategy to drive continuous improvement and long-term scalability.

Critical Interfaces:

Engineering Management for effective team leadership and collaboration across all Product & Technology departments.
Product Management and Product Design to align with CarTrawler's product vision and goals.
Portfolio and Programme Management makes clear delivery plans for important projects and initiatives.
The trading team, Partner Relationship Management, Supply & Insurance, and Customer Support all work together. They aim to deliver quality technical solutions.
External partners to assist in integrating CarTrawler software solutions.

Knowledge and Experience:

5 years of hands-on people management experience in agile, fast-paced software environments.
Familiarity with the Scrum Framework is key, and having a scrum master qualification is a significant plus.
Proven track record guiding teams through estimation, planning, execution, and release cycles.
Technical credibility with the ability to write and review code when required.
Deep understanding of software development practices, CI/CD, and system design.
Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
Ability to mentor and develop engineers, supporting career growth and continuous improvement.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong time-management and delivery focus, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes.

Key Competencies:

Technical Leadership & Credibility – Hands-on experience with coding, design, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices, ensuring the leader can make sound technical decisions and earn engineers’ respect.
Team Building & People Development – Proven ability to hire, grow, mentor, and scale high-performing teams while supporting career development and fostering continuous improvement.
Delivery & Execution Excellence – Strong skills in planning, estimation, and driving agile execution to deliver timely, high-quality outcomes

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Engineering Manager

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