Engineering Manager

October 31

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TrustedHousesitters

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Travel • housesitting • dogsitting • digitalnomads

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

🏪 Marketplace

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Series A on 2021-10

Description

• TrustedHousesitters is a global pet care travel exchange; a double sided digital marketplace of owners and sitters that’s growing rapidly through our unique combination of product, proposition, marketing and community building. • We've just recently been named as one of the Escape the City's top organisations to work for 2023! Also joining the 2024 edition of the Future Fifty program. • Our team has a collaborative and supportive culture. We’re passionate about pets, people and travel; continuously searching for the win, win, win that makes everyone’s lives easier, travel kinder on the pet and enables a more sustainable travel footprint. • We're fully in scale-up mode and have grown to be the only global platform of its kind. In the last few years, we’ve consistently achieved high year-on-year growth. Thanks to strong tailwinds in the pet and travel industry in the post-Covid world, 2022 has been our strongest year so far. At our marketplace we facilitate the perfect match between pet owners who want to leave their pets in safe hands and pet sitters looking to enjoy the companionship of pets whilst they travel. • We're a remote-first business, however we've retained a HQ in central Brighton which is available for collaborative working and in-person meet-ups. • As an Engineering Manager, you will lead two high-performing squads, guiding and mentoring engineers to deliver cutting-edge solutions that enhance our SEO and Growth initiatives. Your squads will play a pivotal role in driving organic traffic and improving the overall customer experience for both pet owners and sitters. • You will collaborate closely with product managers, marketing, SEO experts, and designers to build and maintain a technically sound, scalable, and high-performance website architecture that supports our aggressive growth and SEO goals. This role is perfect for a hands-on engineering leader who is passionate about driving results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, managing and scaling technical teams. • Practice servant leadership • Proven track record of delivering complex web-based projects in a digital-first, customer-focused environment. • Strong experience working in growth-focused or SEO-centric projects, particularly in fast-paced, high-growth businesses. • Solid understanding of website architecture, performance optimisation, and technical SEO best practices. • Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop engineering teams. • Strong project management abilities, with experience in agile methodologies and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. • Deep knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks. • You will champion agile principles, coaching the squad on their approach to delivery, using DORA (or other) metrics to constantly improve. • Familiarity with CMS systems (e.g., Prismic) and ability to collaborate with product teams on CMS optimisation.

Benefits

• Fully remote work • Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme • Generous equity options • 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure • Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters • Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership. This includes benefits like airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits for you • X5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year • Our team have an unlimited housesitting allowance, can work remotely from their sits, and are eligible to £500 per year towards travel costs • £200 annually towards home office equipment • Access to Spaces (co-working) Locations across the globe • Monthly working from home stipend • Macbook • Find a rescue pet to join your family and we’ll cover the adoption fees, as well as paternity to help any pet settle into their new home. • We host a quarterly all-expenses paid meet-up and will fund team events (remote or in person) throughout the year • We can cover costs of personal development resources, and have a regular time set aside for personal development • Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance plan • SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan • Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering via Onhand and employee giving via Tyve • Weekly virtual yoga sessions • Brighton Bikeshare • Recruitment Referral Bonus