Engineering Manager - Zoopla

Hybrid Working Pattern - 2 days per week from Tower Bridge office.

Zoopla is one of the UK’s most instantly recognisable property brands. In fact, we’re known and loved by over 91% of the nation (and we’re working hard on the other 9%). Our mission is to help the nation make better home decisions - by connecting everyone to their home and giving them personalised insights to help with moving, managing or financing. Over 50 million people visit Zoopla every month to access exclusive data and information on every UK property, search over 500,000 homes for sale and rent, find the best agents and secure the latest mortgage deals.

We’re a growing, dynamic team that embraces innovation and isn’t afraid to push the boundaries. We’re only just starting our journey to redefine the digital property landscape, with much more to explore and achieve. Join us, and transform the way the nation makes home decisions.

We want to make Zoopla more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed. We’re reimagining the property industry for everyone, so we want our team to represent people from all walks of life. We actively welcome your application if your demographics or background are underrepresented in the technology or property sectors.

While we have a diverse set of technologies and services running here at Zoopla, we don't expect you to know all of them and would love to hear from you if you have experience in just a few of them.

As an Engineering Manager at Zoopla your day-to-day will include:

• Line managing, coaching and mentoring software engineers; focusing on their engagement, retention, growth and performance, while promoting a culture of innovation, teamwork and self-improvement
• Spending some of your time making technical contributions - this could include writing code, reviewing code, helping teams design architecture or removing blockers for development 
• On the frontend you’ll work with React, Next.js and TypeScript. On the backend it's mostly Node.js and GraphQL, written in TypeScript. We also have some Golang, Python and Perl.

Skills we’re looking for:

• A willingness to flex your skills across the various layers of the stack even if you don’t have experience in these specific technologies. If you’re interested in growing your full-stack development skill set, we’re happy to support you
• We aim to build products that delight users whilst being stable, performant, observable and supportable
• We’re looking for experience in designing and implementing technical strategies, while also looking after existing systems
• We’re looking for someone with a mindset for mentoring, teaching others and sharing your knowledge
  

Structure of our interview process - here’s what to expect:

• An initial chat with one of our talent team 
• 45 minute chat with one our engineering managers or principal engineers
• 1 hour technical interview with three engineers where you will share a project that you worked on
• 30 minute chat with our Head of Engineering or VP of Engineering
• All chats will be via google hangout

A little about us:

• We're serious about tech, but we don't take ourselves too seriously
• We strongly believe in the value of good decisions informed by data. We believe it is a primary differentiator in an increasingly crowded marketplace
• We move fast and do the important stuff first
• We frequently review our various business and engineering metrics, we are after trends not targets though
• We love to make quick decisions and learn from outcomes
• We want to build small, collaborative, cross-functional teams that push each other to create elegant, simple solutions to difficult customer problems

• Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
• 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
• Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
• Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes
• Free Calm App membership
• Enhanced Parental leave
• Fertility Treatment Financial Support
• Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
• Gym on-site in London – or membership in regional offices
• 7.5% pension contribution by the company
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
• Talent referral bonus up to £5K