Engineering Manager, UK

Engineering      ·      London, United Kingdom       ·       Full time / Permanent

Giving the world more time. 

For the first time in human history we have the technology, data, and insights to redefine health. Together with our partners, we will make the leap from reactive to proactive medicine. By collectively benefiting from the data we individually generate, we can all live our longest, fullest lives.  Huma partners with scientists, technologists, healthcare, and life sciences professionals to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent ill health. Giving knowledge and power to those with medical conditions, while saving clinicians time, energy, and valuable resources.

This is a hybrid position based in London, members of the engineering team are required to be in the office on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Your mission

• Build a globally-distributed, happy and successful team
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s)
• Understand Engineering KPIs and seek to improve them
• Manage engineering teams with at least two managers
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train engineering managers to do said interviews
• Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes
• Hold regular 1:1s with team managers and skip-level 1:1s with all members of their team
• Provide your team with management mentorship
• Enable quad planning team collaboration within product groups
• Enable product, quality and UX performance via solid stable-counterpart partnership
• Ensure psychological safety on your team
• Give clear, regular feedback around the individual’s performance
• Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs
• Improve product quality, security and performance
• Participate in the incident management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members

From day one in this role, we’ll expect you to have

• The ability to achieve consensus amongst stakeholders
• The ability to collaborate effectively with others
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical credibility, past experience as a product engineer and leading teams thereof
• Management credibility, significant past experience as an engineering manager
• The ability to understand and improve the quality of multiple teams
• The ability to successfully manage remote engineers
• A demonstrated history of successful partnerships with stable counterparts

It’s great, but not required, if you have

• Prior Developer Platform or Tool industry experience
• Prior high-growth start-up experience
• Experience working with global teams

You will thrive at Huma if you are

• A strong communicator – you practice open and clear dialogue, while listening with fairness 
• Detail oriented – working with people’s health means we obsess over every detail and make sure we get it right 
• An Industry Expert – well networked, you used your knowledge and contacts to teach best practices
• A Visionary – imagine what is possible and have the courage to take risks that will drive our business forward
• A collaborator – you achieve some of the greatest results by working together

What we can offer you

• Progressive private health insurance with AXA Health
• EAP scheme and gym membership discount with AXA
• AIG Life & income protection scheme
• Generous share options – every employee is an owner
• 25 days paid vacation + UK bank holidays
• Home office allowance to support home working
• Bike2Work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Family first culture – giving the flexibility you need
• Growth & development opportunities

Come join us!  

We believe magic happens when you bring together diverse ideas, experiences, and styles. We want to create a world where people live longer, fuller lives, and to do that well we need a team that represents all of the people and communities who use our solutions. We aspire to create an environment where everyone has the opportunity to do their best work. We are always looking for ways to improve so if you have any suggestions, please get in touch. 

Dear recruitment agency friends: Huma attracts an amazing number of direct candidates and we do not need any help at this stage, so please do not send us unsolicited agency resumes. This is not a great use of your time, and we will not accept any liability or fees for any resumes or candidates which we have not asked you to find for us.

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