Engineering Manager

Details

This independent contractor role is responsible for managing, coaching, and developing an engineering team in alignment with organisational objectives. The role manages engineering activities related to designing new products and modifying existing designs, ensuring timely delivery and acceptable quality. Responsibilities also include analysing technology trends, human resource needs, and market demand to plan resilient projects, as well as evaluating engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, scalability, and time-to-market in collaboration with leaders, production, stakeholders, and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage, inspire, grow, and develop engineering team members by supporting personal development plans, leveraging learning resources, offering stretch opportunities, and managing performance through objectives, KPIs, feedback, and collaboration with HR.
• Manage team delivery by taking ownership, collaborating with business counterparts and stakeholders, tracking team health metrics and KPIs, monitoring roadmap progress, identifying and resolving or escalating blockers, reporting progress clearly, and participating in headcount planning and recruitment.
• Coach, guide, and improve the performance of stakeholders and colleagues at all levels by sharing experience, knowledge, and approaches to work.
• Own services end to end by monitoring application health and performance, defining and monitoring metrics, reducing business continuity risks and bus factor through appropriate practices, tools, documentation, runbooks, and OpDocs, and managing deployments and operations in production.
• Use continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback.
• Address and resolve live production issues, mitigate customer impact within SLA, improve system reliability through root cause analysis and long-term solutions, and contribute to incident tracking and postmortems.
• Build software applications using relevant development languages, systems, services, and tools.
• Write readable and reusable code using standard patterns and libraries, refactor and simplify code using design patterns, and guide more junior team members.
• Ensure application quality through standard testing techniques and methods aligned with the test strategy.
• Maintain data security, integrity, and quality by following company standards and best practices.
• Provide architectural guidance by advising product teams on technical solutions, challenging application design rationale, considering functional and nonfunctional requirements, and aligning technical capabilities with target architecture.
• Apply critical thinking to identify underlying issues, evaluate solutions, and initiate SMART improvements.
• Identify and implement process, system, and structural improvements, including performance gains, through improved process flows, standards, and practices.
• Communicate clearly with different audiences, collaborate toward mutually agreeable solutions, and use active listening and follow-up questions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation if required.

Contract Details

• Contract type: Independent contractor
• Duration: 6 months
• Schedule: 40 hours per week
• Start date: October 29, 2026
• End date: April 28, 2027