
Engineering Manager at Civica. We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens. . Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration. . As a company, we’re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities. . Why You'll Love This Opportunity as an Engineering Manager at Civica . Civica builds products and technologies that empower the public sector to serve citizens around the world. Our solutions are widely used across Government, Housing, Transport, Education, and Healthcare sectors in the UK and abroad. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team. . As an Engineering Manager at Civica, you will be a hands-on “player-coach”. Your primary responsibility will be to manage a team of software engineers, taking ownership of both the team’s happiness and their delivery efforts. You’ll also be hands on as an individual contributor, and work with your team to ensure the best technical outcomes. If you enjoy both leadership and technical elements of software engineering, this role would be a great fit. . Key Responsibilities: . Hire, build and manage a team of successful & happy software engineers . Enabling your team for success, ensuring delivery of high-quality products to our customers . Embody good engineering culture, and drive great behaviours in your team . Design, develop, deploy and maintain software products . Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to identify requirements and develop technical solutions . Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and improving the overall quality of our engineering output . Troubleshoot complex issues using log analysis, profiling tools, and collaborative debugging techniques . Contribute to documentation and decisions on team processes and tools . Implement continuous integration & continuous deployment pipelines for automated testing, build, and deployment processes. You will be an experienced Engineering Manager who posses the following skills: . Experience in recruiting, coaching and mentoring software engineers . Deep knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile development, continuous delivery, automated testing, security, and observability . Expertise implementing engineering metrics to drive quality and performance . Comfortable with ambiguity, and able to create clarity for your team . Proficient in writing high-quality, readable, secure, and maintainable code . Strong understanding of computer science concepts, data structures, and algorithms . Strong knowledge of testing principles and practices; experience writing and automating tests . Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure) . Knowledge of observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) and monitoring tools . . Understanding of security best practices and secure coding principles. . Experienced working in dynamic, fast-evolving environments.. . Ability to lead teams through change with clarity and confidence. . Skilled at collaborating across disciplines, from Product and Design to Delivery and Customer teams, ensuring alignment, removing blockers, and driving outcomes that serve the bigger picture.. . Nice to Haves: . Awareness of Developer Experience principles and practices . Experience modernising legacy software . Worked in an environment where engineers own production services . We Want You to Bring Your Whole Self to Work . There is no such thing as the perfect candidate, so if you think you have what it takes but don't necessarily meet every single point on the list above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. . Some technologies that we use: . .NET (C#) . Go (Golang) . Playwright . Azure & AWS Platforms . GitHub . Kubernetes . Docker . Terraform . Datadog . SQL Server . Company Location: United Kingdom.