Job Description
Software Engineering Manager
Based: High Wycombe / London / Hybrid / Remote
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: Negotiable + excellent benefits
The Role:
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our team of 17+ native engineers. Our engineers are embedded into different agile teams working on a variety of projects alongside QA, scrum masters and product owners.
The teams focus on a wide range of value streams such as creative music software, audio plug-ins, internal tools, embedded software and hybrid apps that augment our products.
You will be providing leadership and coaching to support team development, meet the growing needs of the business and nurture a shared engineering culture.
You will work closely with our Tech Leads to communicate strategy and create a sense of unity and direction.
The software team is currently pathing the way for future best practices within the wider group, as engineering manager you'll have an opportunity to directly contribute to the best practices that we choose to adopt.
Duties:
- Energise the team, fostering a sense of belonging, fun and creativity
- Hold regular 1:1s with individual team members
- Conduct performance reviews
- Provide feedback with coaching to help our people grow and reach their potential
- Work on the company career framework with the Software Director
- Enable others to make technical choices by facilitating the exchange of ideas
- Ensure we have the right skillset in the team, shaping our hiring best practices to attract the best talent
- Support and improve the onboarding of new engineers into the team
- Source and manage contractors and consultants
- Get involved with diversity projects to help build an inclusive culture
- Champion knowledge-sharing programmes across Agile teams, such as product demonstrations, lunch-and-learns, hack days and tech events
- Follow the work of other agile teams and look for opportunities to adopt common practices and technologies
- Ensure the team is equipped to achieve their goals, through training and equipment
- Introduce and monitor metrics to help with decision making
Skills and experience required:
- You have exceptional communication skills
- You are able to articulate complex problems and situations to a range of audiences.
- You have several years of experience in a senior position
- You have a broad knowledge of the C++ language and ecosystem
- You have experience managing or mentoring teams using Agile and DevOps best practices, in a culture of psychological safety
- You have proven leadership skills and evidence of engagement with relevant communities You take a human-centric approach, showing kindness and compassion
- You have a passion for helping others to achieve ambitious goals
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, its solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under eleven established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research and Sonnox. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including four Queen's Awards for Enterprise and the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome and positively represented, whether office-based or working remotely. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, company music events, free breakfast/lunch in the canteen at Focusrite HQ. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.
We’re a growing family. A rapidly growing, global family. But a family nonetheless. Fundamentally, we’re focused on providing opportunities for everyone and anyone to enjoy creating music. Our six brands,Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM, Martin Audio and Ampify, come together around a common mission to remove barriers to creativity. For musicians struggling to capture their sound, to enabling some of the greatest shows on earth.
Focusrite is The Interface Company. That’s what it does. More people record and listen to their productions through Focusrite than any other interface brand. Behind this hard-earned position is more than 30 years of experience in creating the highest-quality audio products for every customer market, from budding songwriters to commercial facilities.
We’ve always had a focus on customer care, and pride ourselves in really understanding the wide array of customers we serve. As Focusrite products become integrated into an ever-increasing number of professional facilities around the world, Focusrite Pro was borne out of the desire to better serve the needs of these commercial operations.
From the ubiquitous Launchpad 8 x 8 grid behind over a billion YouTube views, to our synthesisers used to create the signature sounds behind a constantly evolving and enchanting new musical landscape, the Novation brand continues to play a huge part in shaping the music and art of tomorrow.
Born out of talent from Novation and based in Tileyard, Kings Cross, Ampify holds true to our fundamental purpose, creating cool music-making apps that bring the life-enriching experience of music making to a larger audience than ever before.
ADAM Audio continues to change the game of professional monitoring, their ranges of respected monitors and subwoofers the recipients of rave reviews and appreciation from audio experts and recording engineers worldwide.
Martin Audio enjoys an international reputation for supplying award winning, Patent protected professional loudspeaker systems across the spectrum of live sound and installation applications. It is now also the recognised global leader in optimised line array technology.
Music has always been an exciting thing to be involved with, and that’s not about to change. We embrace its evolution, and that means being open to new ideas. Our whole business is structured to let everyone contribute and be heard at all levels, and we make sure it’s a fun place to work.
Benefits include company pension, employee share scheme, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, free breakfast and lunch, company hack-days, lunch and learns from across the business and external visits – we’re all about innovation, fresh thinking and creating awesome music making experiences for our customers.
We work hard. We are professional. And we play hard too. We select really, really talented and passionate people. And we absolutely love our work. So if you think you can bring something new to the mix, we look forward to hearing from you.
Focusrite is an equal opportunity employer, we are company of employees spanning a wide range of diverse backgrounds and we acknowledge that embracing our diversity is one of the keys to our future success.