software engineer Manchester, England
Job description
Software Engineering Management Lead
£80,000+ plus excellent benefits, including up to 10% employer pension contributions, private healthcare, an annual incentive scheme (based on personal and business performance) and a company car or £6,000 car allowance (Work Level 4)
UK-based, with occasional travel to our Manchester office (hybrid working)
We’re looking for a Software Engineering Management Lead to join us to lead the people side of software engineering at Co-op and help our practice to operate at scale. In this role, you’ll line manage 8-10 Engineering Managers, who are directly responsible for more than 100 of our engineering colleagues and 50 of our third-party engineers: from Software, Platform and Front-End Engineers to Quality Coaches. You can find out more about our teams and the work they do by visiting our Digital Blog.
As a Software Engineering Management Lead, you’ll work closely alongside our Head of Engineering and Chief Engineer. You’ll be responsible for the people side of our practice, focusing on recruitment, retention, assignment, career progression, and succession planning to make sure we have a healthy pipeline of engineering talent across Co-op.
What you’ll do
- Lead the people side of our engineering practice
- Line manage our team of Engineering Managers, helping them to navigate challenges within their own teams
- Help to build communities within a large engineering practice
- Develop our career progression framework
- Build and maintain positive relationships with other discipline leaders (e.g., Head of Product, Head of Design etc)
- Manage relationships with our third-party engineer providers
- Work closely alongside our Talent Acquisition & Development colleagues to plan and deliver effective engineering attraction and recruitment campaigns
This role would suit people who have
- Experience working alongside Software Engineers within product teams
- Experience line managing managers
- Experience building and scaling software engineering teams
- Experience scaling and operating at this number of engineers
- Good relationship-building skills and the ability to influence and challenge people inclusively
- Good collaboration skills, and experience working with third party providers
- An appetite for navigating the challenges of a large organisation
Why Co-op?
If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:
- Private healthcare
- A company car or car allowance
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands
Building an inclusive work environment
At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.
