Engineering Manager

Healios

Founded in 2013, Healios is a leading specialist digital healthcare company working to empower patients and families affected by mental health, autism and ADHD conditions to support long-term outcomes and wellbeing. Our mission is to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Healios is pioneering the world’s first digitalisation of a NHS Mental Health Trust outpatient services, covering multiple complex specialist assessment and psychological intervention services. By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and their family members to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home. By blending the best of technology, design, specialised clinical expertise and a personal human connection, Healios is transforming the experience of how care is accessed and received to help patients and families lead a better quality of life.

The opportunity:

• Manage a team of talented software engineers, ensuring they are operating in an environment that enables them to be their best. You should care deeply about the satisfaction and engagement across the team, and wherever possible, you are creating opportunities for people to grow
• Work closely with a product manager within a cross functional team to ensure the team is focused on the right goals and challenges which improve the lives of clinicians at Healios and beyond
• Ensure effective technical decision making. You will make sure we have the right structure to enable autonomy and quality of decisions and direction
• Enable consistent, high quality and high velocity software delivery
• Contribute to the systematic improvements of the wider engineering team. They may be related to people management, development processes, technical standards and implementation, or anything else that helps us build great software
• Liaise with other engineering managers and peers across the organisation, ensuring effective alignment and collaboration
• Join a startup that ultimately aims to improve lives for children and families

What we will provide for you:

• A collaborative culture where curiosity, creativity, experimentation and innovation are fostered
• A highly motivated and energetic team bringing a wide range of talents, experience and knowledge to solve complex challenges
• Autonomy to shape and design world leading clinical pathways that harness the power of combining technology with evidence-based interventions and a human touch
• Opportunities to grow and further develop your professional interests
• A culture that challenges the status quo in pursuit of providing exceptional healthcare and an unrivalled experience for the clients and families we support

What you will bring to Healios:

• Experience building and developing high quality software at speed using modern development practices
• A deep desire to develop and grow people , and a strong understanding of how to do this. Previous management experience would be nice to have, but is not essential
• A desire to become part of a collaborative environment and share knowledge and learning for the benefit of all
• A curious mind-set that underpins your continuous drive to challenge the status quo for achieving better outcomes
• A strong ability to communicate effectively with peers, managers, direct reports and stakeholders across the business in both written and oral form. This will include technical and non-technical audiences
• A commitment to ethical practice and adherence to the highest standards of safeguarding of adults/children

What does success look like in the first 3 months?

• Y ou have built strong relationships with everyone in your team, peers and key stakeholders across the organisation. You have a good understanding of their needs and pain points.
• You have a strong grasp of the people, product and software development processes in your team.
• You have worked closely with your product manager and stakeholders to ensure there are clear goals for your team which the team have effectively delivered against with high quality and efficiency.
• You have proactively raised impediments to the effectiveness of your team and beyond, and are working with relevant stakeholders to identify and rollout solutions.

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• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays and closure days)

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Fully personalised flexible benefits package

• Enhanced family friendly policies

• Flexible, home based role

• Company laptop, plus a personalised home office allowance

• CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth

• Bespoke Healios Training, including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians

• A collaborative culture where curiosity, creativity, experimentation and innovation are fostered

• A highly motivated and energetic team bringing a wide range of talents, experience and knowledge to solve complex challenges

• Autonomy to shape and design world leading clinical pathways that harness the power of combining technology with evidence-based interventions and a human touch

• Opportunities to grow and further develop your professional interests

• A culture that challenges the status quo in pursuit of providing exceptional healthcare and an unrivalled experience for the clients and families we support

1. Recruiter call (30 minutes)
2. Technical interview (60 minutes)
3. Leadership and management interview (60 minutes)
4. Final task and presentation interview (90 minutes)

Management, Agile, Technical Direction, Project Management, Building TeamsAWS, Ruby on Rails, Management, Technical Direction