Engineering Manager (Java/Mobile/Cross-platform) in Sussex

Job Description\n

Software Engineering Manager (Kotlin/Mobile/cross-platform) ITHR Group plc East Sussex, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

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My client is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Back End service layer for a major iOS and Android travel application.

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Remit

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• Lead delivery of the mobile application service layer supporting iOS and Android platforms

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• Provide technical leadership across engineering teams and drive engineering best practices

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• Own architecture, design, development and deployment of scalable Back End services

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• Lead technical governance across development teams, vendors and stakeholders

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• Drive CI/CD, automation and cloud- engineering practices

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• Establish code review, release management and engineering quality standards

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• Mentor engineers and lead team growth, performance and technical maturity

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• Support hiring and development of engineering talent

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Skills

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• 10+ years software engineering experience

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• 2+ years leadership experience managing engineering teams

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• Strong hands-on Java 17+ or Kotlin development experience

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• Strong Spring Boot and microservices architecture experience

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• Experience with Gradle build automation

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• Experience with GitHub Actions and/or CircleCI

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• Strong cloud platform experience

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• Expertise in observability, monitoring and alerting tools such as Sentry

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• Swift (iOS) experience essential

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• Android Kotlin experience essential

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• Agile delivery experience (Scrum/Kanban)

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Desirable

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• Enterprise-scale application development experience

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• Travel, loyalty or customer-facing product experience

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• Automated testing and performance testing experience

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar discipline

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For immediate consideration, please send me your latest CV