Total 82 communications manager job vacancies in Engineering category in City of London, London, SL3 7QF

Our mission and where you fit in

At Employment Hero, we’re an ambitious bunch of people on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone.

Our world-class software is the easiest way for businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits.

Since our inception in 2014, we've had some pretty impressive growth (100% YoY), reached unicorn status in 2022, and now serve 300,000 businesses globally, with 2 million+ users on the platform. We have no plans to slow down. 

There’s never been a more exciting time to join one of the fastest-growing SaaS unicorns, so let’s see if we could be a match!

As an Engineering Manager:

• You are responsible for building a remote team of engineers by hiring, managing, coaching, career development and performance review.
• You are responsible for architecture, design and practices.
• You will collaborate with colleagues in design, product and engineering for timely and high quality delivery.
• You will help your team to facilitate making decisions and remove roadblocks.
• You will foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture.
• We are a multinational company, you will work with international colleagues around the world.

You’re the hero we’re looking for if you:

• Have proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role, with a strong background in software engineering, including experience as a Back-End or Full-Stack Software Development Engineer.
• Are a polyglot with the ability to cross over different technical stacks and manage teams working across stacks.
• Have strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Are passionate about building and leading high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence, and mentoring engineers to achieve their career goals.
• Respect and challenge your peers and team members while welcoming being challenged.
• Have experience with software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum.
• Possess strong time management skills and the ability to balance multiple initiatives.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, viewing changes as opportunities to add structure and order when necessary.
• Have experience in or willingness to learn Ruby, Python, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS.

It’ll be great, but not essential, if you also have:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience working with LLM (Large Language Model) technologies.
• Experience in database design and performance tuning.
• Experience working in modular monoliths and microservice architectures.
• Experience in cloud-native architectures.

The EH Way

The EH Way is how we describe our culture at Employment Hero and how we all operate. It is our DNA. You can read all about it on our careers page: https://employmenthero.com/careers/ 

In short, you’ll love working with us if:

• Revolutionising employment gets your heart racing.
• You thrive on the flexibility (and responsibility) of a remote-first business.
• Our values align, and shape how you show up every day.
• You love the dynamic pace of a startup, are driven by innovation, and enjoy working with other smart people.

But don’t just take it from us, hear from your local heroes: Thao Ta, Head of People and Culture & Hung Pham, Group Engineer Manager: Life at Employment Hero | Vietnam

Plus, you’ll get to enjoy a number of great perks, including: 

• A generous budget for your home office.
• Cutting-edge tools and technology.
• 20 days Annual Leave, plus VN Public Holidays.
• $500 USD for your professional development plan.
• $500 USD for English learning courses.
• Premium Healthcare Insurance Program for you and your loved ones, plus full gross salary paid social insurance.
• Sports club funded by Employment Hero.
• Monthly get-together event in the office for team bonding and VND 80,000 budget for lunch for day-in-office.
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded.
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero.
• Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali and are excited to meet in Dubai in 2025.

Are we a match? 

Think we're the right match for you? Fantastic! Click 'Apply' and our talent team will reach out with the next steps.

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Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.

About you

You have extensive experience in the design and development of distributed, highly transactional systems. You understand and respect quality practices and do everything in your power to ensure NFR’s are met throughout the SDLC. You take ownership of the overall health of platforms, actively driving monitoring & improvements in platform health, including stability, availability, testability and performance.

You demand autonomy, and offer it to your team, who you are passionate about mentoring and growing into a high performing software development powerhouse. You are comfortable and confident in coordinating engineering resources across multiple concurrent projects, driving the delivery of key Engineering initiatives, and engaging and communicating with key stakeholders within and external to the business,

You have business acumen, understand the role Engineering and Product takes in evolving Asia Pacific's leading recurring payments and subscription billing, and are ready to lead a growing Engineering team in enhancing and evolving our Platform to maintain and increase our incredible rate of growth.

You’re a star on the rise who is looking for the opportunity to join a FinTech company in a really exciting period of growth, and work directly with the CTO to propel our Engineers and our Product into the next phase of evolution.

Main Responsibilities  

• You own the overall health of our applications, and maintain our best-in-class product, a Java based micro-services architecture hosted on AWS.  
• You own the observability of our application stack, making sure that we have the right level of observability, including SLOs.
• You are accountable for identifying, planning for and remediating architectural and scalability challenges, and other elements of technical debt.
• You will work closely with key stakeholders and the CTO to ensure that key Engineering initiatives are delivered to expectation
• You will mentor and coach several engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and ownership of production-ready code.
• You will hire and retain the best talent possible within the Engineering team
• You will manage our portfolio of development related tools and processes, including evaluating and recommending new tools and processes

Our Technical Environment  

As the Engineering Manager you aren’t expected to be hands-on, but you are expected to have a solid technical background, and be able to understand, direct and lead the Engineering team when it comes to our technical stack.

Here’s a high-level view of how we work:

• Our next generation payments platform has been developed using Java – specifically leveraging the Spring Boot framework
• Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS; using a mixture of containerization (Fargate) and vanilla EC2 – we're also open to exploring Kubernetes
• Our systems are secure and highly available – we have implemented passive and active monitoring and incident escalation using a combination of Datadog, CloudWatch Logs and Metrics, Postman, and Pagerduty
• We utilise GraphQL (leveraging Apollo and Hasura) to open up our rich data model to internal and external stakeholders
• We develop frontend systems using the Vue and Ionic frameworks
• We aggregate and analyze logs from all of our systems via the ELK stack
• Our operating system of choice is CentOS and our DevSecOps team is fanatical about security, monitoring, and patch management
• Our infrastructure is immutable and managed using IaC principles via Terraform
• We leverage build automation (specifically CircleCI), and we’re working toward continuous deployment across all environments
• We take advantage of AWS services to meet our various technology requirements:
• PostgreSQL (Aurora) clusters are managed via RDS
• Redis clusters are managed via ElastiCache
• KMS provides managed security services
• AWS Lambda and API Gateway support our serverless infrastructure; DynamoDB is also an important part of our stack
• We utilise highly durable messaging technologies such as SQS, Kinesis, and AWS EventBridge

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant Information technology industry experience. 
• Solid grasp of computer science fundamentals, specifically data structures and algorithms. 
• 10+ years industry experience with an in-depth understanding of distributed systems, 3+ years experience as an Engineering Manager or in Technical Management roles.
• Experience working in complex system architectures, operations and support structures
• Experience working with AWS (preferred) or Azure/GCP
• Strong working experience with :

*Java

*Spring Boot

*RabbitMQ or similar AMQ

*Event Driven Architecture

*Postgres or similar

• Good understanding of security best practices in the context of web applications 
• Good understanding of internetworking concepts and protocols 
• Strong knowledge of a modern software development lifecycle management methodology, such as SCRUM
• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript 
• Working knowledge of SQL 
• Ability to lead, coach and mentor to get the best out of your team

• Competitive salary package & performance bonus
• Gym subsidies 
• Casual dress code 

• Flexible working arrangements  (including work from home and remote) 
• Generous number of Annual Leaves
• Extensive medical coverage (including dental & optical)
• Delicious office snacks 
• Guidance and mentoring from leaders within the business 
• Dynamic, positive work environment 
• Fantastic team culture  

• Drive and coach Agile teams to deliver on engineering standards, sprint backlogs and plans, engineers’ responsibilities and performance management, code quality, adherence to development guardrails, and testing; 

• Drive the execution and delivery of engineering goals by collaborating with many cross-functional teams, architects, and product managers; 

• Drive technology roadmap; 

• Be a part of the overall architecture and key components design for the current and future framework 

• Be the voice of reason between speed and quality; 

• Coach engineers to be T-shaped, versatile, and take responsibility outside their core disciple; 

• Own remediation of technical debt; 

• Keep up-to-date with modern development technologies and methodologies; 

• Be responsible for the full life-cycle development process and the deliveries of a team; 

• Empower the product engineering team to be self-sufficient and disciplined; 

• Lead initiatives for implementing efficient development and delivery processes; 

• Motivate the product team to go above and beyond with continuous delivery and innovation; 

• Execute and update the career path development for engineering team members, working with the HR department; 

Experience with one of the following/similar Technologies: 

• Microservices – REST API; 

• Databases – MySQL, MongoDB; 

• Understanding about AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, CLI, ECS, EKS…) or Google cloud platform is a must; 

• Formal Development methodologies; 

Experience Required: 

• 10+ years of working experience in Software Development; 4+ years of experience leading an engineering organization at a product company is preferred; 

• Ability to initiate design and implement new product lines end to end; 

• Proven experience with implementing software engineering as Agile, Scrum, and SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations; 

• Experience in a management position at an international finance or tech company, as well as having a sound development background and experience. 

• Strong people leadership, team building, motivation, and coaching skills. Ability to mentor engineers and help them with career growth; 

• The production of technical documentation including technical specifications, operating instructions, test plans, etc 

• Code and change management processes 

• Experience in working with multiple stakeholders, across two countries, with conflicting priorities 

• Deep understanding of Software Quality, DevOps environments, and Micro-Service technologies 

• Proven track record working with cross-functional teams and coordinating efforts in a distributed environment; 

• Experience in the Banking or Financial Services industry is preferred; 

At TYME, opportunities are here for the taking. If you want to be part of our purpose and live and lead through our values, we can offer exciting development opportunities through expanded lateral roles, stretch assignments, or people leadership.

Some of our benefits:

• Meal and parking allowances are covered by the company.
• Full benefits and salary rank during probation.
• Insurances such as Vietnamese labor law and premium health care for you and your family.
• SMART goals and clear career opportunities (technical seminar, conference, and career talk) - we focus on your development.
• Values-driven, international working environment, and agile culture.
• Overseas travel opportunities for training and work-related.
• Internal Hackathons and company events (team building, coffee run, etc.).
• Pro-Rate and performance bonus.
• 15-day annual + 3-day sick leave per year from the company.
• Work-life balance 40-hr per week from Mon to Fri.