Engineering Manager, Not On The High Street
£90-100k
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The home of small biz magic✨
Be an early applicant
The home of small biz magic✨
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£90-100k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Making small businesses the future, adding passion and purpose to the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Javascript/Typescript for backend & frontend development and familiarity with another language such as Java or Ruby
- A deep understanding of clean development principles, system design, & architecture
- Experience deploying application stacks to AWS or other cloud environments
- An understanding of distributed asynchronous architectures
- A solid understanding of CI/CD
- You are interested in being a hands-on technical contributor, with the understanding that the most important features will probably be delivered by other engineers
- Experience working on a team that was fully invested into cloud native applications
- An eagerness to work alongside product teams to find a healthy balance between tech and feature driven priorities
- You have previous experience leading a technical team and developing/supporting Junior, Midweight and Senior engineers
- You are keen to work at a more strategic planning level to prioritise important technical work against product work
What the job involves
- At NOTHS, our engineering teams are organised into cross-functional squads focused around an area or domain of our online store or partner platform
- Consisting of Associate, Midweight and Senior engineers across different disciplines, our engineering teams need flexible technical and people leadership from their Engineering Manager (EM)
- Working alongside Agile Delivery Managers, Product Managers and other business stakeholders, the EM plays the role of ‘internal’ owner of their domain and how their team performs in the process and living Agile values
- Oversee one or more cross-functional engineering teams to deliver great software for our customers and partners
- Directly line manage up to 7 engineers of varying seniority operating as a single cross functional team in our Agile process
- Coach and/or mentor engineers in your team, understanding their personal development needs & the needs of the business in order to progress their careers at NOTHS
- Provide technical leadership where appropriate & ultimately act as the point of decision acting in the best interests of the business and your team
- Make sure that services & iterations are operationally ready and provide active support for high priority and complex production issues
- Alongside the Product Manager, monitor and manage technical debt, articulating necessary remedial work in a way that it can be prioritised against business facing features
- Help to shape the overall architecture & Tech strategy, make sure the teams understand it, and that technical solutions conform to our architectural strategy
- Help to build & make sure the team has & follows good QA practices and takes full accountability for their testing including functional, performance, load and security testing
- Working alongside the security team, help to build & implement secure by design principles as well as good security coding practices
- Operate with a product development mindset and work closely with Product Managers, Product designers and your team to design and deliver value to customers and partners early
- Help to drive the team to do the best possible job and strive for continuous improvement in productivity. Working with others keep the team inspired and motivated with a focus on delivering maximum value through the best available tech
- Hold themselves and others accountable for upholding NOTHS values
- Reporting to: Head of Engineering
Application process
- Our recruitment processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology
Our take
Notonthehighstreet have found a niche within ecommerce, providing a curated online platform for small businesses.
They currently have 5,000 small businesses selling their unique products on the platform and their business model is similar to Etsy.
Amazon are increasingly doubling down on their marketplace proposition and are powerful competition for Notonthehighstreet. However, their user base is one that values the uniqueness and curation they provide, so this should provide them with a competitive advantage.
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65% female employees
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Since joining the People team, I've been given so many valuable opportunities to learn things outside of my scope. While they're not always skills..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2016
$27.8m
SERIES E
Oct 2013
$13.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $70m
Company benefits
- 33 days holiday – to make sure you are well rested and ready to give your absolute best, we offer 33 days holiday a year (including bank hols). Plus, there is the option to buy an additional 5 days holiday each year too. And, to top it off we also give an extra half day of holiday for every year of service!
- Private healthcare – keeping you in the best possible health is top of our list, that’s why we offer private medical insurance with Bupa and a cash plan with Healthshield which allows you to claim back money on your healthcare essentials e.g. dentist & opticians
- Pension plan – it’s never too early to start saving for your retirement and with our pension plan in place, it’s easy too! We offer a 4.5% matched contribution
- Life insurance – it’s never nice to think about, but in the very unlikely event of anything happening we’ll pay 4x your basic salary to a nominated person
- NOTHS discount – if you are anything like us, you’ll have an ever-growing wish list from the site. We give everyone who works here 20% off anything from the site (yes, that includes stuff that’s on sale!)
- Video therapy sessions through Spill, to support positive mental health
- Work from anywhere policy – work for up to 45 days of the year from anywhere in the world you don’t need to be in the office, so the world’s your oyster
- Family planning – we’ll support you through your pregnancy, adoption, IVF, or surrogacy journey - we offer 13 weeks at full pay 13 weeks at 50% followed by 13 weeks at statutory pay
- Do your bit for the planet and hire an electric vehicle with a salary sacrifice
Company values
- Stay Focused - We keep the main thing, the main thing. We prioritise, react to change and don’t get distracted
- Champion Team Spirit - We're playful and compassionate. We trust each other and raise each other up. All for one and one for all.
- Act Boldly - We have courage and conviction. We think big, dare to try and take risks
- Be speedy not perfect - We’re nimble, take ownership and move at a pace to achieve our goals. We act, then use learnings to refine
Leadership
Leanne Rothwell
(CEO)During her 10years with Not On The Highstreet, Rothwell has overseen the growth of the partner-base from 1,000 to over 5,000 sellers, leading all of Not On The High Street’s commercial efforts.
Holly Tucker
(Co-founder)Started 'Your Local Fair', a series of upmarket events, which sparked the idea for Notonthehighstreet. Received an MBE in 2013.
Sophie Cornish
(Co-founder)Previously both a journalist and marketer. Received an MBE in 2013.
People progressing
Natalie joined NOTHS in 2015 as Senior People and Development Advisor. After 8 years of success and promotions, she is now People Director and part of our Senior Leadership team.
The ultimate progression; Leanne joined the company back in 2012 as an account manager and over the course of 10 years and 8 different roles she was appointed CEO proving a very popular choice
Diversity & Inclusion at Not On The High Street
- Diversity and Inclusion are really important to us at Not On The High Street. We celebrate difference and strive to make everyone feel welcome.
- As part of your application you’ll be asked to complete a demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. It’s completely optional (but really appreciated) and it’s 100% anonymous. We’ll only use the information to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us, with the help of our cross-team Diversity Champions to drive progress
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