Engineering Manager

Description

What we’re all about. 

Do you ever have the urge to do things better than the last time? We do. And it’s this urge that drives us every day. Our environment of discovery and innovation means we’re able to create deep and valuable relationships with our clients to create real change for them and their industries. It’s what got us here – and it’s what will make our future. At Quantexa, you’ll experience autonomy and support in equal measures allowing you to form a career that matches your ambitions. 41% of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We speak over 20 languages across our 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all.

You’ll be joining the Research and Development department where you will be working alongside the Engineering Teams building our core Contextual Decision Intelligence offering: The Quantexa Platform. You will be instrumental in implementing Engineering Management Practices ensuring the Platform is delivered to the highest standards. Our products process, analyse and display huge volumes of data with the ultimate aim of detecting anomalous and suspicious activity. The user interface we provide enables users to conduct complex investigations into fraud and financial crime cases and visualise complex networks of criminal activity.

The R&D department is located in London, Ireland & Malaga and consists of over 100 people split into agile teams of Engineers, Designers, QA and others each focusing on specific projects and areas of the Platform.

In this role you will:

• Work alongside a number of Engineering teams, supporting them in the delivery of new components and features of the Quantexa Platform, ensuring that they meet our high-quality bar

• Support, coach and develop Engineers at all levels to reach their full potential, you will be involved in recruitment, training and fostering development opportunities for Engineers across the department
• This is a UK based role however occasional travel to our Ireland and Malaga offices will be required
• While this is not a hands-on role you will be expected to have the technical experience to be able to contribute to and guide technical and architectural discussions, bringing the wider context to those discussion
• Work with Product Managers and Team Leads to help breakdown and design upcoming features, facilitating teams with Agile processes

• Work closely with our Product Management function to help them refine market needs and align with Engineering capability to create a deliverable roadmap
• Coordinate release activities across Engineering teams, and keep stakeholders informed of progress to allow measured delivery to roadmap.
• Work across teams helping to coordinate dependencies in the development process and spot any issues which could slow down or block teams
• Spot opportunities to improve processes and ways of working across the department to improve efficiency, quality and scalability
• Work with stakeholders outside the department to ensure their needs are met in a timely and controlled manner

• Assist with the day-to-day operational running of the department

Tech Stack:

On the back end, our services are primarily written in Scala and deployed as microservices. We are huge fans of functional and strongly typed programming, making use of libraries such as Cats and Shapeless. We also use Akka and Monix to help build scalable, highly performant, distributed services. We utilise techniques such as event sourcing and CQRS in our persistence layer to ensure our datastores are scalable and flexible.

The front end has been developed using modern front-end tools and frameworks such as TypeScript, Angular 6+ and ngrx and has been designed from the ground up to be highly extensible and allow for customisation to meet varying requirement.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Experience successfully delivering software through full engineering life cycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment into a Live SaaS environment.
• Thrive in identifying and implementing organisational changes to allow Engineering functions to optimize their effectiveness and value rate.
• Take pride in designing, building, and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems.
• Have previous experience in software development and architecture, with experience building web applications and/or systems that process large volumes of data

• Passionate about developing engineering talent, highly experienced in all aspects of people management
• Strong planning and project management skills. A solid understanding of Agile processes and experience working across multiple teams

Experience in the following would be beneficial:

• Have experience functional programming using Scala or Java AND/OR experience using modern front-end frameworks, ideally Angular 2+..
• Experience with Infra-as-Code, containerisation and Kubernetes, CI/CD

• Experience delivering software which is deployed on premise and as a service
• Experience of automation testing including experience with current software testing methodologies in functional testing, integration testing, performance testing and user acceptance testing

Why join Quantexa?

As well as a competitive salary, company bonus + Pension we offer:

• Well being: We care about our employees wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, Private Healthcare, Life insurance and Income protection. No to mention healthy fruit, unlimited drinks and snacks in the office.
• Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy 5, plus your Birthday off!
• Family life: We offer flexible + hybrid working (based around the team you will be joining)
• Fun: We love to socialize and make friends in Quantexa. We host regular internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, outings and more…we’ve taken this virtual for now!

If you are excited about joining us and think you have much of what we are looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more about Quantexa on our Glassdoor!

Our mission

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It's all about you

Quantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital, disability, or veteran status. Whoever you are, if you’re a curious, caring, and authentic human being who wants to help push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.

Internal pay equity across departments is crucial to our global compensation philosophy. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, education, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.

Quantexa is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our talent acquisition processes. If you require support, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team.